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Jennifer Buckle and Sonya Corbin Dwyer had an article selected for inclusion in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology (IIQM) Special Issue featuring updates on the top 20 papers (a combination of most downloaded and/or most cited) from the past 20 years: Corbin Dwyer, S., & Buckle, J. (2018). Reflection/Commentary on a Past Article: "The space between: On being an insider-outsider in qualitative research." International Journal of Qualitative Methods (Special Issue: Reflections & Updates on a Top-20-in-20 Article), 17(1-2), doi: 10.1177/1609406918788176

Retired visual arts and professor emeritus Barb Hunt landed the cover of the May 2018 Journal of Canadian Studies with her exhibit Fodder, altered worn army uniforms, 2010. Also in 2018, she won the Visual Arts Newfoundland and Labrador/CARFAC Endurance Award.

Congratulations to Grenfell Campus, Memorial University Visual Arts Program Professor Marlene MacCallum who received the Long Haul EVA Award for lifetime achievement for her substantial contribution to the visual culture of Newfoundland and Labrador.

In 2016, public services librarian Crystal Rose received the Dalhousie University School of Information Management’s Outstanding Alumni Award.

Dr. Roselyne Okech, associate professor, attended the Global Conference on Business and Finance in Costa Rica, and received multiple honours for her paper, titled "Marketing Wine Tourism in Newfoundland: Case Study of Kosher Wine."

Prof. Ingrid Mary Percy of the visual arts program, was named the 2018 winner of Memorial University's Fogo Island Fellowship. Ingrid was also accepted to the Cultural Leadership Program at the Banff Centre.

Dr. Roza Tchoukaleyska, professor of environment and sustainability, was named the 2018 winner of Memorial University's Fogo Island Fellowship

In 2017 Dr. Jacqueline Wash was named the vice-chair of InnovateNL, an initiative of the provincial government to foster greater innovation and accelerate business growth in Newfoundland and Labrador.

As of December 2018, the 2013 paper by Dr. Jianghua Wu ("The impacts of climate change and human activities on biogeochemical cycles on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.") received a highly cited recognition from Web of Science. The paper received enough citations to place it in the top 1% of the academic field of Environment/Ecology.

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Grenfell Campus has had seven graduate students receive support from Memorial University's recruitment fund for Indigenous graduate students.

In 2018, Grenfell had eight NSERC undergraduate student research awards in Computational Mathematics, Environmental Science, General Science, Physics, and Psychology.

During 2016-2018, 13 graduate students were awarded the Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies.

2016 - Grenfell brought home three of the five awards offered at the Aldrich 2016 Conference. Sean Manners received first place in the poster presentation for his research on Climate Change Policy: Creating Space for Environmental Ethics and Human Rights. Conor Edwards and Leanna Butters tied for first in the Social Science and Humanities oral presentation. Conor’s research applied human dimensions research to a proposed European Bison reintroduction project in the Netherlands and, Leanna’s research will look at fly-in/ fly-out mobility in source hub communities and its potential implications for community sustainability. The third win was for Rebecca Brushett who placed first in the Connecting Research and Public Engagement oral presentation. Her research will assess the marine and coastal management areas off Western, NL using geospatial analysis paired with expert and stakeholder participation.

2018 - Abdul-Rahim Abdulai's research at Grenfell Campus landed him a prestigious scholarship at the University of Guelph as one of four recipients of an Arrell Food Institute graduate scholarship, valued at $50,000. He is undertaking a PhD in Guelph's Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics examining the social disruptions of new and emerging agricultural technologies within food systems.

Chaim Andersen presented at the Western Conference on Science Education about her research on melding culture and science and eliminating the separation between Inuit traditional knowledge and scientific knowledge.

Visual Arts Program student Lauren Brinson was the Newfoundland and Labrador regional winner of the BMO 1st Art! 2017 Invitational Student Art Competition.

Visual Arts Program student Emma Burry was the Newfoundland and Labrador regional winner of the BMO 1st Art! 2018 Invitational Student Art Competition.

While a visual arts student at Grenfell, alumna Emily Critch received several awards, including: in 2018, the Reginald Shepherd and Helen Parsons Shepherd Award; in 2017, the Ellen Rusted Award in Print Media; and in 2014-16, the Hazel Cryderman-Wees Foundation Scholarship.

MAEP student Conor Curtis was awarded a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master's in 2016.

PhD candidate Tiffany Fillier was chosen for a hot topic booklet at the Society for Neuroscience (SFN) conference of 2018; she travelled to San Diego to present her research in poster form.

Visual Arts Program student Lucas Morneau was the Newfoundland and Labrador regional winner of the BMO 1st Art! 2016 Invitational Student Art Competition.

2017 - Hope Olusanya winner in the poster presentation category based on his thesis research, titled: Assessing the climate change vulnerability of freshwater fish species in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Temitope Onifade, a MAEP graduate, won the Scholarship for Energy and Natural Resources Law of the International Bar Association, funded by the Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law. Temi’s award supported his further graduate work at the University of Calgary, where he was appointed to work under the Stikeman Elliot LLP Research Fellowship in Corporate Law and as an International Research Intern at the Artis International Research and Risk Modelling, USA. The Stikeman Elliot fellowship is a grant awarded to the University of Calgary Law School by Stikeman Elliot LLP for funding relevant research projects supervised by a professor and conducted by a student, while the Artis International Internship is an interdisciplinary programme designed to recruit the brightest young scholars into an international research network. Temi’s work under the Stikeman Elliot fellowship was to research corporate security risk management policies in the extractive sector and potential remedies to resource violence.

Jasmine Pinksen received the K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre Award, Science Atlantic-Environment conference held recently at the University of New Brunswick in Moncton, 2017.

In 2016, Dawn Pittman was awarded the Terra Nova Aboriginal Doctoral Student Scholarship; the Anna M. Curren Doctoral Scholarship in Nursing; and the Margaret D. McLean Scholarship.

Mallory Snow received two research scholarships in 2018 to study theoretical subatomic physics – one from the Canadian Institute of Nuclear Physics (CINP) and another from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Heather Spicer received the second place award for undergraduate oral presentation, 2017.