Awards news

Celebrating our colleagues' achievements and recognizing contributions to teaching and learning on our campus.  In doing so our teaching community will continue to grow and contribute in outstanding teaching at our University.

View the official list of current award winners: USask Faculty & Staff Awards

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Institutional Teaching


Year / Term  Recipient
2023 Fall Soo Kim

Master Teacher Award (this award was renamed in Fall 2022)

Year / Term  Recipient
2022 Spring David Sumner
2021 Spring Lee Swanson
2020 Fall Loleen Berdahl
2020 Spring Tom Yates
2019 Fall Patricia Dowling
2019 Spring Vince Bruni-Bossio
2018 Spring Joe Garcea
2017 Fall Chelsea Willness
2017 Spring Hayley Hesseln
2016 Fall Chris Clark
2016 Spring Hugo Cota-Sánchez
2015 Fall Keith Willoughby
2015 Spring Jay Wilson
2014 Fall Richard Long
2014 Spring Ronald C.C. Cuming
2013 Fall Debbie Pushor
2013 Spring Norman Sheehan
2012 Fall Lorin Elias
2012 Spring Barb Phillips
2011 Spring Sandra Bassendowski
2011 Fall Ken Van Rees
2010 Spring Allan Dolovich
2010 Fall Edwin Ralph
2009 Spring Lesley Biggs
2009 Fall Anurag Saxena
2008 Spring Baljit Singh
2008 Fall Angela Ward
2007 Spring Vipen Sawhney
2007 Fall Jeffrey Steeves
2006 Spring Fred Phillips
2006 Fall Dan Pennock
2005 Spring Ernie Walker
2005 Fall Karen Chad
2004 Spring John Thompson
2004 Fall Terry Matheson
2003 Spring Sheila Rutledge-Harding
2003 Fall Alec Aitken
2002 Spring Donna Greschner
2002 Fall John Hubbard
2001 Spring Keith Taylor
2001 Fall Jack Hope
2000 Spring Michael Hayden
2000 Fall Carey L. Williamson
1999 Spring John G. McConnell
1999 Fall Colin Sargent
1998 Spring Jim Greer
1998 Fall Gary R. Davis
1997 Spring Len Gusthart
1997 Fall David Hay
1996 Spring Ronald Steer
1996 Fall Richard Schwier 
1995 Spring Mark Evered
1995 Fall Robert Grogin
1994 Spring Henry Woolf
1994 Fall Susan Gingell
1993 Spring Ernest Ambrose
1993 Fall Jean-Paul Tremblay
1992 Spring Lynne Bell
1992 Fall Gary Wobeser
1991 Spring Dorothy Howard
1991 Fall Willi Braun
1990 Spring Dwaine Nelson
1990 Fall Taylor Steeves
1989 Spring Michael Swan
1989 Fall Patrick Renihan
1988 Spring Sylvia Wallace
1988 Fall Mel Hosain
1987 Spring Gordon Johnson
1987 Fall Ray Skinner
1986 Spring Ron Verrall
1986 Fall Otto Radostits
1985 Spring Ron Marken
1985 Fall Cecil Doige
1984 Spring Roy Crawford
1984 Fall Frank Vella

Year Recipient College Department
2024 Shannon Forrester Kinesiology
2023 Regina Taylor-Gjevre Medicine Rheumatology
2022 Elemir Simko Veterinary Medicine Veterinary Pathology
2020 Mark Eramian Arts and Science Computer Science
2020 Tim Jardine School of Environment and Sustainability Toxicology Centre
2019 Helen Baulch School of Environment and Sustainability
2018 Colin Laroque Agriculture and Bioresources Soil Science

Year Recipient College School / Department
2024 Kyle McLeister Arts and Science History
2023 Al Chicoine Veterinary Medicine Veterinary Biomedical Sciences
2022 Lisa Birke Arts and Science Art and Art History
2022 Jennifer Loewen Veterinary Medicine Small Animal Clinical Sciences
2021 Sarah Donkers Medicine School of Rehabilitation Sciences
2021 Joanne Leow Arts and Science English
2020 Katherine Stewart  Agriculture and Bioresources Soil Science
2019 Vicki Squires Education Educational Administration

Year Projects / Recipients (Click here to review more details on the award page)
2024 Project/Class Name - Erika Dyck, Simonne Horwitz, Scott Napper
2018 Justice Innovation: The Dean's Forum on Access to Justice and Dispute Resolution
2017 College of Law - Nunavut JD Program
2017 Indigenous Student Achievement Program
2016 Becoming Water: Art and Science in Conversation
2016 Rural Partnerships for Interprofessional Clinical Experiences
2014 Improving Communication and Collabroation Using Law and Psychiarty Join Seminars
2013 Northern Innovative Teaching and Learning Practice in Pediatric Nursing Education: Caring For Kids Where They Live
2013 Innovative Laboratory for Engineering Physicists and Physicists in the 21st Century
2012 Inside-Out on the "Outside": An interdisciplinary Community-based teaching and learning project.
2012 Longitudinal Elderly Person Shadowing
2010 Telerobotics: The use of Technology for Teacher Presence in the Delivery of an Undergraduate Nursing Course
2010 Innovative Practice in Interprofessional Health Sciences Problem-Based Learning
2010 Practice Patients for Advanced Practice Nursing
2009 College of Kinesiology: Initiative in peer review of teaching and faculty professional development
2009 Department of Educational Foundations's Integrated Master's of Education Program
2008 Integrative Teaching and Learning to Bridge Basic and Clinica Sciences in Veterinary Medicine
2008 The Greystone year: An Intensive, Interdiscplinary, and Collaboratively-Taught Introduction to the Western Humanistic Tradition

Year Recipient College
2024 Danielle Spence School of Environment and Sustainability
2023 Barbara DaSilva Engineering
2022 Steve Yang Veterinary Medicine
2021 Emma Chen Education
2020 Jason Maillet School of Environment and Sustainability
2019 Zeinab Momeni Medicine
2018 Margo Adam Kinesiology

Year Recipient College/or Unit
2024 Elaina Guilmette Curriculum Development, SENS
2024 Sandy Bonny Indigenous Student Achievement Pathways and STEM Access Initiatives, Arts & Science
2023 Carolyn Cartwright Veterinary Medicine
2023 Liv Marken University Library
2022 John Ching Veterinary Medicine
2021 Lisa Krol Language Centre

Year Recipient College Department
2024 Layla Gould Medicine Neurosurgery
2023 Steven Langdon Arts and Science Chemistry
2022 Nat Banting Education
2022 Carly Priebe Kinesiology
2020 Margo Adam Kinesiology
2019 William Robertson Arts and Science English
2018 Glorie Tebbutt Arts and Science English
2018 David Terrance York Arts and Science Political Studies
2017 Rita Matlock Arts and Science English
2015 Jim Taylor Education
2014 Rod Johnson and Bert Weichel Arts and Science Geography and Planning
2013 Daniel Neilson Arts and Science Computer Science
2012 Wendy Wilson Arts and Science Women's and Gender Studies and Sociology
2011 Christtine Fondse Education
2010 Brian Zulkoskey Arts and Science Physics and Engineering Physics
2009 Greg Saretzky Engineering Civil Engineering
2008 Peggy Proctor Medicine Physical Therapy
2007 Warren Noonan Education
2006 Bonnie Nicholson Arts and Science Music
2005 Michael Kennedy Arts and Science English
2004 Carolyn Brooks Arts and Science Sociology
2003 Wendy Schissel Arts and Science Women's and Gender Studies
2002 Marcus Rayner NORTEP
2001 Jack Coggins Arts and Science History

College Awards

  • Natacha Hogan (2024)
  • Tristan Skolrud (2023)
  • Fran Walley (2022)
  • Randy Kutcher (2021)
  • Grant Wood (2020)
  • Karen Schwean-Lardner (2019)
  • Natacha Hogan (2018)
  • Eric Micheels (2017)
  • James Nolan (2016)
  • Fiona Buchanan (2015)
  • Terry Tollefson (2014)
  • Tom Yates (2013)
  • Steve Shirtliffe (2012)
  • Nicholas Low (2011)
  • Ken Van Rees (2010)

Humanities and Fine Arts Science Social Science
  • Simonne Horwitz (2023)
  • Allison Muri (2018)
  • Valerie Korinek (2017)
  • Wendy Roy (2016)
  • Ann Martin (2014)
  • Greg Marion (2013)
  • Kathleen James-Cavan (2012)
  • Garry Gable (2011)
  • Amy Stephens (2024)
  • Ulrich Teucher (2021)
  • Raj Srinivasan (2019)
  • Art Davis (2018)
  • Tracy Marchant (2017)
  • Nathaniel Osgood (2016)
  • Hugo Cota-Sanchez (2015)
  • Michael Horsch (2014)
  • Neil Chilton (2013)
  • Ian Burgess (2012)
  • Mark Eramian (2011)
  • Ken Wilson (2010)
  • Maggie FitzGerald (2024)
  • Joe Garcea (2016)
  • Loleen Berdahl (2014)
  • Pamela Downe (2013)
  • Karen Lawson (2012)
  • Ron Borowsky (2011)
  • Lorin Elias (2010)

  • Gregory Kost (2024)
  • Francisco Otero (2023)
  • Amrinderbir Singh (2022)
  • Jory Longworth (2021)
  • Alan Heinrichs (2020)

  • Geraldine Balzer (2024)
  • Vicki Squires (2022)
  • Laureen McIntyre (2021)
  • Tim Molnar (2019)
  • Egan Chernoff (2018)
  • Keith Walker (2017)
  • Beverley Brenna (2016)
  • Brenda Kalyn (2015)
  • Dirk Morrison (2014)
  • Debbie Pushor (2013)
  • Shaun Murphy (2012)
  • Verna St. Denis (2011)
  • Edwin Ralph (2010)

  • Michael Hernik (2024)
  • Lorelei Nickel (2023)
  • Brian Lane (2022)
  • Brandy Mackintosh (2021)
  • Marjorie Delbaere (2020)
  • Nathalie Johnstone (2019)
  • Lee Swanson (2018)
  • Vince Bruni-Bossio (2017)
  • George Tannous (2016)
  • Gary Entwistle (2015)
  • Chelsea Willness (2014)
  • Keith Willoughby (2013)
  • Rick Long (2012)
  • Norman Sheehan (2011)
  • Barbara Phillips (2010)

  • Ebrahim Bedeer Mohamed (2024)
  • Lifeng Zhang (2023)
  • Emily McWalter (2022)
  • Joel Frey (2021)
  • Sean Maw (2020)
  • Debora Rolfes (2019)
  • Jim Bugg (2018)
  • Jim Kells (2017)
  • J.D. Johnston (2016)
  • John Moffatt (2015)
  • Mehdi Nemati (2014)
  • David Sumner (2013)
  • Denard Lynch (2012)
  • Bruce Sparling (2011)
  • Allan Dolovich (2010)

  • Paul Gustafson (2024)
  • Carly Priebe (2023)
  • Alison Oates (2022)
  • Mark Epp (2021)
  • Alynn Bomok (2020)
  • Marta Erlandson (2019)
  • Leah Ferguson (2018)
  • Shannon Forrester (2017)
  • Philip Chilibeck (2016)
  • Nancy Gyurcsik (2015)
  • Joel Lanovaz (2014)
  • Louise Humbert (2013)
  • Jon Farthing (2012)
  • Keith Russell (2011)
  • Len Gusthart (2010)

  • Jaime Lavallee (2024)
  • Jamesy Patrick (2023)
  • Mark Carter (2022)
  • Robin Hansen (2021)
  • Barbara von Tigerstrom (2020)
  • Clayton Bangsund (2019)
  • Amanda Doucette (2018)
  • Sarah Burningham (2017)
  • Felix Hoehn (2016)
  • Sarah Buhler (2015)
  • Heather Heavin (2014)
  • Ibironke Odumosu (2012)
  • Michaela Keet (2011)
  • Barbara von Tigerstrom (2010)

  • Nassrein Hussein (2024)
  • Kelsey Brose (2023)
  • Greg Malin (2021)
  • Sarah Oosman (2020)
  • Rob Woods (2019)
  • Paul Lee (2017)
  • Marcel D'Eon (2016)
  • Regina Taylor-Gjevre (2015)
  • Robert Skomro (2014)
  • Sean Mulligan (2013)
  • Meredith McKague (2012)
  • Kalyani Premkumar (2011)
  • Nigel West (2010)

  • Tania Kristoff (2024)
  • Roslyn Compton (2023)
  • Hua Li (2022)
  • Patricia King (2021)
  • Shelley Peacock (2020)
  • Tracie Risling (2019)
  • Noelle Rohatinsky (2018)
  • Carol Ann Bullin (2016)
  • Donald Leidl (2015)
  • Janet McCabe (2014)
  • Cheryl Besse (2012)
  • Lorraine Holtslander (2011)
  • Sandra Bassendowski (2010)

  • Allison Cammer (2024)
  • Courtney Charles (2023)
  • Terry Damm (2022)
  • Katelyn Halpape (2021)
  • Derek Jorgenson (2020)
  • Charity Evans (2019)
  • Ed Krol (2018)
  • Phyllis Paterson (2017)
  • Holly Mansell (2016)
  • Adil J. Nazarali (2015)
  • Anas El-Aneed (2014)
  • Shawna Berenbaum (2013)
  • David Blackburn (2012)
  • Melanie Rozwadowski (2011)
  • Jeff Taylor (2010)

  • Tasha Epp (2024)
  • Brent Bobick (2023)
  • Joseph Rubin (2022)
  • Bruce Wobeser (2021)
  • Cindy Shmon (2020)
  • Patricia Dowling (2017)
  • Gillian Muir (2016)
  • Matt Loewen (2015)
  • Elemir Simko (2014)
  • Sue Taylor (2013)
  • Chris Clark (2012)
  • Vikram Misra (2011)
  • Gary Wobeser (2010)

  • Martin Boucher (2024)

External teaching awards

Year Name College / Department
2023 Loleen Berdahl Political Studies, Arts and Science / Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy
2022 Vince Bruni-Bossio Management and Marketing, Edwards School of Business
2017 Jay Wilson Curriculum Studies, Education
2013 Colin Laroque Soil Science, Agriculture Bioresources
2011 Fred Phillips Accounting, Edwards School of Business
2009 Baljit Singh Veterinary BioMedical Science, WCVM
2007 Ernie Walker Archaeology, Arts and Science
2005 Richard Schwier Curriculum Studies, Education

Year Projects / Recipients 
2023 College of Engineering - RE-ENGINEERED (See this article)

Year Name College/School Deptartment
2011

Year Name College/School Award Category
2023 Loleen Berdahl JSGS Distinguished Teaching Award
2023 Simonne Horwitz Arts and Science Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Teaching Award
2023 Cheryl Troup Indigenous Teaching Excellence Award

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