Celebrating recipients and nominees of the 2021 Graduate Student Recognition Awards

Join us online to celebrate the achievements of McMaster’s graduate student community with a written tribute, a quick note of congratulations or a virtual high five on the Graduate Student Recognition Awards Kudoboards.

These annual community-based awards highlight excellence in teaching, communicating research, community building and leadership, supervision and mentorship by faculty, as well as support, well as staff contributions to the grad community are also recognized.

2021 Graduate Student Recognition Awards recipients

President’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision

• Jason Busse, Health Research Methodology
• Jamal Deen, Biomedical Engineering
• Martin Gibala, Kinesiology
• Michel Grignon, Health, Aging & Society and Economics

Dean’s Award for Outstanding Leadership & Contributions to the International Graduate Student Community

• Tamina Angel Jose
• Avijit Mallick
• Garima Sarkar

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Communicating Graduate Research

• Erica Dao
• Rachael Finnerty
• Calvin Zhu

Keith Leppmann Teaching Assistant Excellence Award

• Gaoyin He
• Samuel Lee
• Abdul-Rehman (“Abdul”) Qureshi
• Ahmed Teamah

GSA Award for Contributions by Non-Academic Staff

• Brian Alcock
• Kristine Espiritu

Millennium Award for Community Service

• Abiram Chandiramohan
• Nicole Rakowski

Mary Keyes Award for Outstanding Leadership and Service to McMaster

• Maddie Brockbank
• Allison Leanage
• Ana Portillo
• Hasan Siddiqui

Therese Quigley Award of Excellence for Graduate Student Leadership in Athletics

• Nicole Rakowski
• Yordan Stoyanov
• Evan Ubene

The awards are a joint initiative between the McMaster Graduate Students Association (GSA) and the School of Graduate Studies.