Celebrating Student Achievement

Posted on 2020-04-07 in News



Congratulations to the 2019-2020 English Undergraduate Awards Winners

The Department of English is delighted to announce the results of the 2019-2020 awards competitions. The Department had planned to celebrate these achievements at the April 1 English Undergraduate Awards Reception, which had to be cancelled because of the current health crisis. Congratulations to all winners, and heartfelt thanks to our generous donors.

Spring 2019:

The 2019 winner of the Award for Excellence in English Studies was Meghan Waddell.

Brandon Fick was the recipient of the Reginald J.G. Bateman Memorial Scholarship in English.

Congratulations to Michelle Kent winner of The Avie Bennett Prize in Canadian Literature for her essay “From Moving Inward to Reaching Out: Healing from Intergenerational Trauma though Community and Culture in Eden Robinson’s “Queen of the North” and Katherina Vermette’s The Break.

Two Elizabeth Brewster Memorial Scholarships, recognizing excellence in creative writing, have been awarded this year. Congratulations to Brandon Fick and Mitchel Rohrke on their distinction in their third-year Creative Writing classes.

The McGeachy Prize in Journalism has been awarded to Ana Camacho Alarcon, news editor for The Sheaf, for her incisive articles on student groups at the University of Saskatchewan, the Visual Arts Students’ Union and the International Students’ Association.

The Yuans Award in Canadian Literature went to Nathan Metivier for his essay “Haunted by Guilt: The Colonial and Postcolonial Gothic in Anderson-Dargatz’s The Cure for Death by Lightning.”

Fall 2019:
The Ronald and Mary Dyck Memorial Awards went to Bryce Bulgis and Alexander Edmunds for their persuasive essays on the value of a liberal arts education.

Twelve students were awarded Hannon Scholarships in recognition of their academic achievement and community contributions: Bryce Bulgis, Noah Callaghan, Ana Camacho Alarcon, Sophia Charyna, Alyson Cook, Drumlin Crape, Alexander Edmunds, Mason Fairbairn, Nathan Metivier, Felicia Ruchotzke, Ashley Sharp, and Gabrielle Torres.

Noah Callaghan, who will be studying in the Journalism Program at the University of King’s College in Halifax this fall, won the Mary Lou Ogle Award for the Study of Communications.

The recipient of the R.A. Wilson Memorial Scholarship was Drumlin Crape.

Winter 2020:

When travel restrictions lift, our two Hannon Travel Scholarship winners, Bryce Bulgis and Alyson Cook, will be flying to Europe. Bryce will explore the culture and history of Latvia and Lithuania and meet extended family. In preparation for graduate study, Alyson will travel parts of the U.K. and Ireland that shaped her favourite authors, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Jean Rhys, Katherine Mansfield, and George Orwell.

Shicona Thomas received Indigenous Student Achievement Award for Academic Excellence for her outstanding achievements in her first year of studies in both literature and science. Jerilyn Alderman-Hansson whose "Women Writers and Activism" seminar exemplified extraordinary relational leadershipwas honoured with an Indigenous Student Achievement Award for Leadership.

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