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1997 winners of the Distinguished Academics Awards

Meet the winners and learn how their work is making an impact in the non-academic world, demonstrating the vitality of university-based research and scholarly activity.

The Distinguished Academics Awards promote the value of university research in advancing the public good. Nominees hail from various institutions and disciplines, often working in very different domains—yet they’re united by a passion for meaningful research that fuels our economy, democracy, and intellectual life.

WINNERS

  • Ehor Boyanowsky Academic of the Year Award

    Dr. Winifred Kessler

    University of Northern British Columbia

    Dr. Kessler epitomizes the university scholar that can take concepts and ideas from within the university community and apply them, and adapt them, to recognize the diversity of opinion within the society at large,” wrote Darwyn Coxson, president of the UNBC Faculty Association. “Dr. Kessler has been instrumental in bringing the university to the community and in turn bringing the community back into the university.