Dean's Service Award Recipients

2022 recipients

Martin Antony

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Martin Antony is among the most generous contributors to service in the Department of Psychology. Last year, he served as Graduate Program Director in Psychology, where he led the program through a period of change related to the COVID-19 pandemic and longstanding shortcomings related to equity, diversity, inclusion, and justice. He also led the program through the periodic program review process, and helped to secure donor funding for new student research grants and bursaries. Externally, he served as president of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and Provincial Clinical and Training Lead for the Ontario Structured Psychotherapy Program.    

Lorena Escandon

School of Creative Industries, The Creative School

Since joining the School of Creative Industries in 2017, Dr. Lorena Escandon has demonstrated an outstanding commitment through service contributions. In the past year, she has served at all levels of the University including school, faculty and university wide committees. Recently, she served as the Interim Chair of her faculty wide teaching committee. In this role she organized events and activities which engaged faculty in discussions around pedagogy and teaching. These activities impacted the lives of participating instructors through new ideas and pedagogies which they could use in the classroom.    

Scott Franks

Lincoln Alexander School of Law

As a first-year faculty member, while building a new law school during a pandemic, Prof. Franks worked tirelessly on his own initiative to support the School’s commitment to its Indigenous law pillar, to Indigenous education and reconciliation, and to the implementation of the TRC’s Call to Action 28. His service is critically improving the School’s curriculum and its governance and is central to welcoming and supporting Indigenous students. Prof. Frank’s energy, passion, generosity, humour, and collegiality inspire his colleagues and students alike and his exceptional service has benefited our School; our students, faculty, and staff; the University; and the public.    

Julian Hasford

School of Child & Youth Care, Faculty of Community Services

Through his exceptional service efforts, Dr. Hasford is a valued peer and mentor on CYC faculty, a CYC community leader, and an extraordinary colleague across the institution and external community. He has made extraordinary contributions to the advancement of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion that have significantly impacted countless individuals and groups. In sum, he is most deserving of this Dean’s Service Award because he embodies the mission of FCS “To engage with our communities to challenge the status quo and enable meaningful change.”  

Chun-Yip Hon

School of Occupational & Public Health, Faculty of Community Services

In 2020/2021, Dr. Chun-Yip Hon was extremely active with respect to service activities having sat on numerous committees at the department (DHC, DEC, PAC and Curriculum Committee), faculty (FTC) and University level (RFA Reps Council).  Externally, he made contributions to his profession through his involvement with the Occupational Hygiene Association of Ontario (OHAO) as well as with two separate committees associated with the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA).  Chun’s services have led to positive contributions to the University at all levels while his external service contributions have helped to enhance Ryerson’s profile within the occupational health and safety community.    

Farrokh Sharifi

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architectural Science 

Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi’s services to the Mechanical-Industrial Engineering Department, FEAS, Ryerson University-RU, and engineering profession have been exceptional. During his academic life at Ryerson University, he served in Senate and numerous University, Faculty and Departmental level committees. Furthermore, he organized and chaired many international conferences and technical program committees, and served in numerous editorial boards of journals, conference scientific committees, and review panels of journals, conferences, and grants. He also served as an external reviewer for many tenure and promotion applications. Additionally, he has provided mentorship to many students, beyond RU, and members of societies such as IEEE, SCWST and IndigeSTEAM.

Past recipients