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2002 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. Nancy Turner

    University of Victoria

    Nancy Turner, an ethnobotanist, is a leader in the field of traditional plant use by First Nations in Western North America. She has worked with communities in the documentation, and even rediscovery, of their cultural heritage and in doing so has played an important role in decisions on land use and economic development. Furthermore, Dr. Turner has worked at bringing her academic work to a wider audience as a media commentator, public lecturer, and trainer of budding botanists.

  • Paz Buttedahl Career Achievement Award

    Dr. Nancy Sherwood

    University of Victoria

    Nancy Sherwood, a biologist, received the Career Achievement Award for her long service to the university and scientific community as a researcher, reviewer, advisor and mentor. An outstanding researcher in the field of hormone functions, Dr. Sherwood generously shares her expertise with her colleagues and her students reviewing articles for publication, adjudicating research awards, mentoring students, and guiding Canadian research policy through her work with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Medical Research Council.