And the winners are …
Grace Vanvliet, a history student and Dennis Mock award winner, poses with President Mohamed Lachemi, Dean Pamela Sugiman and Dennis Mock, former president of Ryerson University.
The Faculty of Arts congratulates all of the students who have been awarded a Dennis Mock Student Leadership Award (opens in new window) . The awards recognize graduating students who have made outstanding voluntary extracurricular contributions to their academic program department, their faculty, or to Ryerson University as a whole.
2019 award recipients:
University-wide recipients
- Michelle Woolfrey, Arts and Contemporary Studies
- Mackenzie Gregory, Politics and Governance
- Claire Davis, Environment and Urban Sustainability
Faculty-wide recipient
- Dane Junior Simpson, Sociology
Program-wide recipients
- Calvin Hillis, Sociology
- Srushti Nadkarni, International Economics and Finance
- Shea Neals, Criminology
- Teresa Monrante Arona, Geographic Analysis
- Christine Dionio, English
- Grace Vanvliet, History
- Andrew Hight, Arts and Contemporary Studies
- Zagros Habibi, Politics and Governance
The awards were established in honour of Dennis Mock for his strong commitment to higher education. During his 28 years at Ryerson, he held many academic leadership roles including professor and chair of the geography department, registrar, vice president academic and president. Mock was part of a group who created the first applied geography program in Canada at Ryerson in 1975. His leadership and dedication to higher education imbues the qualities of the students who are nominated for the award each year – students who are committed to making a difference.