Awards Fiscal Year 2023-2024
Geoff Rayner-Canham

Joseph B. Lambert HIST Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry, 2023, American Chemical Society Geoff Rayner-Canham, co-Recipient with Marelene Rayner-Canham

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Caption: Part of the NL Living Lab project is knowledge technology transfer. Researcher Dr. Vanessa Kavanah engages with farmers at the NLFA Agricultural Expo in Corner Brook.

This international award honours their work on the history of women in science, particularly British women chemists. The Rayner-Canhams have researched and written many books about forgotten historical women scientists, including: A Devotion to Their Science: Pioneer Women of Radioactivity; Women in Chemistry: Their Changing Roles from Alchemical Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century; A Chemical Passion: The Forgotten Saga of Chemistry at British Independent Girls' Schools, 1820-1940; and Chemistry Was Their Life: Pioneering British Women Chemists, 1880-1949. The pair was also major invited contributors to the book Women in Their Element: Selected Women's Contributions to the Periodic System and have published a large number of research papers in the Bulletin for the History of Chemistry.

Canada Outreach Award 2023, of the Society of Chemical Industry

Geoff Rayner-Canham, co-recipient with Chaim Christiana Andersen and Rosalina Naqitarvik The Outreach Award recognises a Canadian organization, individual or team that has demonstrated sustained effort in engaging the public in learning about chemistry and its impact on society. As part of this endeavour, for the past 20 years, Rayner-Canham has been taking Chemistry Outreach to grade school students in remote communities, in particular, the schools in Nunatsiavut, Nunavut, and NunatuKavut. More recently, with Chaim Christiana Andersen, Inuk of Nunatsiavut, and Rosalina Naqitarvik, Inuk of Nunavut, they researched the chemical principles underlaying Inuit life and culture. Compiling this research, with added reflections by Andersen and Naqitarvik, resulted in a 64-page publication. This magazine was sent to the chemistry teacher in every high school in Canada.

Nurse Educator Travis Sheppard had his manuscript on "Fighting for Connection: A Socially Distanced Grief Experience" published in the journal of Illness, Crisis & Loss. https://doi.org/10.1177/10541373231216347

Historian Dr. Edwin Bezzina won a SSHRC Exchange Grant in spring 2023 for conference travel to attend the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference this past October. His paper dealt with lay devotional confraternities in Poitiers, France in the late medieval and early Reformation periods. He plans to turn the conference paper into a scholarly article. Dr. Bezzina also finished the introduction, proposal, and first chapter for his book project in summer 2023 on Protestant-Catholic relations in the French provincial city of Loudun, France (ca. 1560-1640).

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Larch Grove Farm Ian Richardson and son, Memorial University Grenfell College Campus, Dr. Yeukai Katanda, research lead and team, Dr. Vanessa Kavangh, Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture.

Abdul-Latif Alhassan, PhD Candidate, Transdisciplinary Sustainability, was a recipient of the 2023 Flight 302 Legacy Award. The Flight 302 Legacy Award ($10,000) contributes to supporting students whose areas of study help commemorate the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 tragedy. He also received the Dr. Leonard Lye Graduate Award for Volunteer & Community Service, 01/25/2024, $1,000 and the pioneer recipient of the Wareham Family Entrepreneurship Award, 01/28/2024, $5,000

Dr. Andreas Klinke has published a book which is the culmination of several years of research. Titled "A Theory of Uncertainty: Perspectives in Philosophy, Social Sciences, and Risk," the book "creates a novel approach to the recognized but theoretically often unattended issue of uncertainty." According to publisher Routledge, Andreas Klinke develops a new, general theory of uncertainty that provides a taxonomy of categories which are deduced from a critical inventory in philosophy, social and natural sciences, and risk research." His book will be of interest to scholars and students in philosophy, social and natural sciences, risk research, as well as inter- and transdisciplinary science fields. For more information visit the Routledge website.