Awards
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Recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize don’t always deserve it
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The five Nobel Prizes which are awarded annually to those who have made great strides in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace were the product of founder Alfred Nobel’s final wishes. The arms manufacturer, best known for the creation and production of dynamite, dictated that his large fortune would be used to set up a…
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A look at the 2020 Grammy nominations
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The 63rd Grammy Awards are not too far away, airing on Jan. 31, and nominations have just been released. As always, there are mixed reviews, some seeming fair and just while others read as blatant snubs. Predictably, Justin Bieber is up in arms over his album Changes being categorized as Pop rather than his intended…
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Laurier recognised with United Way Rising Star Award
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Wilfrid Laurier University has recently become the recipient of United Way Waterloo Region Communities Rising Star Award for its 2019 fundraising campaign. This award recognizes new or returning campaigns that demonstrate initiative and growth throughout the campaign period. “We had a committee of faculty and staff from across all campuses that worked really hard to…
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Brown and Laurie each honoured with the President’s Award after historic seasons
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The Laurier Golden Hawks honoured their student-athletes, supporting staff and department members as they announced major award winners through an online banquet near the end of last month. Laurier’s annual athletic banquet honouring the accomplishments of the best student-athletes was scheduled to be held on April 6. This year, however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic…
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Golden Hawks announce award winners through online banquet
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Laurier was forced to cancel their athletic banquet this year and instead held a digital version to honour their top student-athletes and hand out both their major awards and team-by-team awards to round out the 2019-2020 athletic season. The award winners are highlighted. Luke Fusco Athletic Academic Achievement Award Male…
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Laurier Stedman Prize awards $10,000 to young writers
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The second-ever biennial Laurier Stedman Prize competition for young writers came to a conclusion on Friday, Feb. 7, awarding 10,000 dollars in prize money over the course of the evening. Six prizes were given throughout the night, a first place prize totaling at $3000, two second place prizes totaling at $2000 each and three third…
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Waterloo author to receive TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award
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Local author Heather Smith has been nominated for the prestigious TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, one of the nation’s top literary prizes, for her most recent verse novel Ebb & Flow. Smith, originally from Newfoundland, is a Waterloo-based author who writes children’s picture books and young adult literature. “I had always been a fan of…
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Laurier Professor Alison Blay-Palmer named finalist for Canadian research impact award for second time
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Alison Blay-Palmer, Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Laurier and food sustainability researcher, has been named a finalist for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Impact Award for the second time. Blay-Palmer is nominated in the Partnership Category alongside the Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged (FLEdGE) partnership, a project she…
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Joseph Fo receives Peter C. Ansley scholarship award
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Earlier in June, Wilfrid Laurier University held its Laurier Society celebration which is an event hosted by Development and Alumni Relations. The event is in place to honour and recognize the school’s most generous donors. Having recognized Peter Ansley, an alumnus, with the 2018 Laurier Philanthropy Award, there was the award in his name, the…
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Art isn’t all about awards
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It’s the recognition we don’t get that makes us crave it more, but it’s the recognition we do get that inflates our egos. I suppose there really is no way to come out on top, even when you do. Our culture revolves around a constant need to rate things and know who’s the best and…
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