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Colleen Kiberd Honoured with Awards

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Professor Kiberd presents the award named in her honour to graduate Tammy Baxter.

Professor Kiberd presents the award named in her honour to graduate Tammy Baxter.

This year marks the twelfth time the Professor Colleen Kiberd (Nursing) has been selected by the graduating class to receive the Student Appreciation Award.  This award is given to a member of faculty who has touched each of the students’ lives as a supportive mentor, an exemplary teacher and an inspiration to strive for excellence.

Another tribute to Professor Kiberd by the Class of 2011 was the creation of the Colleen Kiberd Award.  This award is given to a member of the graduating class who is viewed by their peers as compassionate, engaging, warm, generous and thoughtful – a leader with a great work ethic, sense of humour, an inspiration and support to others, a mentor and friend who demonstrates a love of nursing to his/her fellow students.  The recipient of the inaugural Colleen Kiberd Award is Tammy Baxter.

Faculty and staff joined the students in a standing ovation for Professor Kieberd both when she received the Student Appreciation Award and when she presented the award created by the students in her honour.

HHP Convocation Awards

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Dr. Fred McGinn and Kaitlin Lauridsen

Dr. Fred McGinn and Kaitlin Lauridsen

Congratulations to the following School of Health and Human Performance students, who received awards at last month’s convocation:

  • University Medal in Health & Human Performance – Kaitlin Lauridsen (B.Sc. Health Promotion)
  • Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology – Emelie Ederfors (B.Sc. Kinesiology)
  • Dr. M.J. Ellis Award – Erin Cusack (B.Sc. Health Promotion)
  • Leisure Research Congress Award – Austin Oswald (B.Sc. Recreation)
  • Dr. Hugh A. Noble Award – Claire Lederman (B.Sc Recreation)
  • Dr. John C. Pooley Sportsperson Award – Alexander Veit (B.Sc. Kinesiology)
  • Women’s Division – Dalhousie Alumni Association Medal in Health Promotion – Kaitlin Laurisden and Erica Zallen (B.Sc. Health Promotion)
  • Women’s Division – Dalhousie Alumni Association Medal in Kinesiology – Emelie Ederfors (B.Sc. Kinesiology)
  • Women’s Division – Dalhousie Alumni Association Medal in Recreation – Austin Oswald (B.Sc. Recreation)
  • Matthew Knox Award – Kelsey MacDonald (B.Sc. Health Promotion)
  • Bryant Undergraduate Research Awards – Luke Martelli and Hilary Caldwell (B.Sc. Kinesiology)

Also presented at the convocation ceremony was the Student Appreciation Award, given by the Student Association for Health and Human Performance (SAHHPer), in recognition of a staff or faculty member who makes the student experience at Dalhousie more enjoyable and rewarding.  This year the award was given to Professor Barbara Hamilton-Hinch.

Taken with Tancook

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Seretha Wison with her professor Debbie Sheppard-LeMoine, on the ferry back from Tancook.

As part of her program, Nursing student Seretha Wilson visited the Baker family on Big Tancook Island to learn about the factors that influence the heath of it’s residents, including socioeconomic and cultural.  In this case, the rural location of their home – an island one hour from the mainland, accessible only by sea – was also a factor.  Learn more by reading the full story in Dal News.

Becky Spencer takes first at IHRTP Research Day

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Congratulations to Becky Spencer (School of Health Administration and School of Health and Human Performance MA HPRO Candidate) who was awarded first prize at the Integrated Health Research Training Program (IHRTP) Health Research Trainee Day.  Held on February 2, 2011; the event brought together students from Medicine, Dentistry and Health Professions to present their research.  Becky’s winning project “The role of peer mentors in enhancing school-based physical activity:  Phase 1” evaluates the effectiveness of peer mentoring in increasing the activity levels of children.  Becky is supervised by Dr. Sara Kirk of the School of Health Administration.