YSGS Outstanding Contribution to Graduate Education Award Recipients
The Yeates School of Graduate Studies (YSGS) Outstanding Contribution to Graduate Education Award recognizes faculty excellence in the complex process of mentoring graduate students to prepare them for productive careers. There are a total of seven awards: one to be allocated to a faculty member in each of Ryerson’s Faculties and one for a faculty member associated with an interdisciplinary program. Note: a faculty member that works with an interdisciplinary program or another graduate program outside of their Faculty may be considered for both their home Faculty YSGS award and any other appropriate award within the YSGS Outstanding Contribution to Graduate Education Awards.
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: Graduate student mentorship
2022 recipients
Harald Bauder
Interdisciplinary Studies - Immigration and Settlement Studies, Faculty of Arts
Dr. Bauder has made outstanding contributions to interdisciplinary graduate student education at Ryerson University. Since he joined the university in 2009, he has been appointed to the interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Immigration and Settlement Studies (ISS). From 2016 to 2021, he served as the ISS Graduate Program Director. His leadership is characterized by supervising and mentoring an exceptional number of interdisciplinary graduate students, spearheading innovative programs such as the International Graduate Student Exchange between Ryerson and the University of Osnabruck in Germany, and initiating a Graduate Student Paper Challenge with the federal ministry for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
Andre Laplume
Master of Science in Management, Ted Rogers School of Management
As the Graduate Program Director, Dr. Andre Laplume has shown exceptional dedication to a burgeoning Master of Science in Management program, as well as a budding Ph.D. in Management program. He led the transformation of the MScM program to establish its unique identity as a research-focused program and made distinctive contributions to leading the operationalization of the newly launched Ph.D. in Management program. Meanwhile, he is also a well-rounded educator and prolific researcher. He develops a number of courses in both programs and publishes in top-tier academic journals and brings SSHRC grants to support a number of graduate students.
Alison Matthews David
Fashion, The Creative School
Since the Fashion MA program’s inception in 2010, Dr. Alison Matthews David has risen to the changing demands of graduate education through leading and nurturing the fashion scholars and professionals of tomorrow in the classroom, and beyond. In addition to her example as a leading scholar in her field, she has provided a diversity of opportunities for students’ professional and scholarly advancement. A notable example is co-founding Fashion Studies, an open-source journal through which many Fashion MA students have published and reviewed fashion scholarship. Thanks to Dr. Matthews David's efforts, Fashion MA alumni have accomplished noteworthy professional achievements.
Past recipients
- Mehrunnisa Ali
Immigration and Settlement Studies, YSGS Interdisciplinary - Nina-Marie Lister
Urban Development, Faculty of Community Services - Katy McCormick
Documentary Media, Faculty of Communication & Design - Ali Miri
Computer Science, Faculty of Science - Donna Smith
MBA Program, Ted Rogers School of Management
- Miranda Campbell
School of Creative Industries, Faculty of Communication and Design - Seung Hwan (Mark) Lee
School of Retail Management, Ted Rogers School of Management - Mehrab Mehrvar
Department of Chemical Engineering, YSGS Interdisciplinary - Maurice Roche
Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts - Alireza Sadeghian
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science - Sharareh Taghipour
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
- Anthony Bonato
Mathematics, Faculty of Science - Marta Braun
Film and Photographic Preservation and Collections Management, Faculty of Communication and Design - Suzanne Fredericks
Nursing, Faculty of Community Services - Claire Oswald
Environmental Applied Science and Management, Interdisciplinary - Julia Spaniol
Psychology, Faculty of Arts - Hong Yu
Master’s of Business Administration, Ted Rogers School of Management
- Alagan Anpalagan
Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Programs, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Rachel Berman
Master of Arts in Early Childhood Studies, School of Early Childhood Studies - James Gräfe
Biomedical Physics Graduate Programs, Department of Physics - Karen Milligan
Psychology Graduate Programs, Department of Psychology - Paul Moore
Communication and Culture Graduate Programs, Department of Sociology - James Tiessen
MBA Programs, Health Services Management - Matthew Tiessen
Masters of Professional Communication Program, School of Professional Communications
- Deborah Fels
Master of Business Administration Program, School of Information Technology Management - Wendy Freeman
Master of Professional Communication Program, School of Professional Communication - Mehrab Mehrvar
Environmental Applied Science and Management Graduate Program, Department of Chemical Engineering - Ali Miri
Computer Science Graduate Program, Department of Computer Science - Candice Monson
Psychology Graduate Program, Department of Psychology - Pamela Robinson
Urban Development, School of Urban and Regional Planning - Krishnan Venkatakrishnan
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Graduate Program, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering