Dean's Service Award Recipients
The Dean's Service Award recognizes exceptional or distinguished service to a Department, School, Faculty and/or the University.
Award recipient(s) will receive a certificate of recognition and a monetary award of $2,000 as a one-time payment (subject to applicable deductions).
Key criteria: Service
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
- Pnina Alon-Shenker
Faculty of Law and School of Business Management, Department of Law and Business, Ted Rogers School of Management - Roberto Botelho
Department of Chemistry and Biology, Faculty of Science - Ahmed El-Rabbany
Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science - Annika Hillebrandt
School of Business Management, Department of HR Management and Organizational Behavior, Ted Rogers School of Management - Sharareh Taghipour
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
- Alagan Anpalagan
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science - Farhad Ein-Mozaffari
Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science - K. Wayne Forsythe
Department of Geography & Environmental Studies, Faculty of Arts - Konstantinos Georgiou
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science - Martin Habekost
School of Graphic Communications Management, Faculty of Communication and Design - Juan Antonio Hernandez
School of Retail Management, Ted Rogers School of Management - Klaas Kraay
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts - Richard Meldrum
School of Occupational and Public Health, Faculty of Community Services - Farid Shirazi
Information and Technology Management, Ted Rogers School of Management - Haomiao Yu
Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts
- Patrizia Albanese
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts - Annette Bailey
School of Nursing, Faculty of Community Services - Catherine Ellis
Department of History, Faculty of Arts - David Hunter
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts - Yuanshun Li
School of Accounting and Finance, Ted Rogers School of Management - Shelagh McCartney
School of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Community Services - Isaac Woungang
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science
- Tara Burke
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts - Linying Dong
School of Information Technology Management, Ted Rogers School of Management - Catherine Dowling
School of Interior Design, Faculty of Communication and Design - Daniel Foucher
Department of Chemistry and Biology, Faculty of Science
- Stephanie Cassin
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts - Farhad Ein-Mozaffari
Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science - Ahmed El-Rabbany
Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science - Eric Liberda
School of Occupational and Public Health, Faculty of Community Services - Martin Pyle
Marketing Management, Ted Rogers School of Management - Lori Schindel Martin
Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Faculty of Community Services - Stephen Swales
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Arts - Warren Wakarchuk
Department of Chemistry and Biology, Faculty of Science