Two teams and 6 particular person personnel associates are staying celebrated for their exceptional get the job done and accomplishments at Queen’s.
The 2022 Specific Recognition for Staff members Awards recognize staff, nominated by colleagues, who have long gone higher than and further than their working day-to-working day activities to have a long lasting good effects.
Award recipients and their friends are invited to a non-public reception in late April.
“These awards acknowledge our exceptional colleagues who have exceeded anticipations by carrying out remarkable matters,” states Principal and Vice-Chancellor Deane. “I want to sincerely thank everybody for your considerable contributions and dedication to your operate at Queen’s.”
The recipients of the 2022 Exclusive Recognition for Staff Awards are:
Classroom Working Team (Crew Award)
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- Steve Alexander, Manager of Electronic School rooms/AV Technological know-how, Details Technological innovation Providers
- Joanne Brett, Supervisor, Timetabling, Business office of the College Registrar, College student Affairs
- Cheyenne Deschamplain, Assistant Project Manager/Designer, Services
- Tony Gkotsis, Director, Campus Scheduling and Serious Estate, Amenities
- Erik Harmsen, Job Manager, Amenities
- Nadia Jagar, Associate Director, Finance and Operations, Office environment of the Provost and VP (Tutorial)
- Kaitlin McDonald, Division Assistant, Centre for Educating and Studying
- Karalyn McRae, Educational Developer, Centre for Educating and Finding out
- Kathy Newstead, Operations Supervisor, Occasion Services, Housing and Ancillary Providers, Scholar Affairs









Formed practically a ten years back, the Classroom Doing the job Team develops techniques for creating energetic discovering classrooms to provide new as nicely as conventional educating practices. To day, the team has designed and made 22 active-discovering areas and a number of modern lecture halls, just one of the greatest inventories of its type in the country. In the course of the early phases of the pandemic, their know-how was particularly in desire and the team expanded its mandate, creating risk-free teaching spaces for many programs such as Medication, Nursing and Rehabilitation Remedy, the place in-individual learning was the only option. Members also delivered steering and organizing for medical instructing room for Queen’s Wellbeing Sciences and college student analyze space in Mackintosh-Corry Corridor. To get ready for the university’s harmless return to on-campus learning, the group contributed to tips, established suitable classrooms, seating ideas and capacities, and established up markers, plexiglass, signage, and cleaning supplies. The group also consults with other universities to share improvements and to encourage greatest tactics.
Queen’s Profession Gateway Plan (Team Award)
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- Samuel Whyte, Director, Services Operations and Servicing, Amenities
- Lisa Crosbie-Larmon, Director, Human Sources, Amenities
- Karen Burkett, Director, Queen’s School of English, Faculty of Education
- Jessica Della-Latta, Government Director, Continuing Teacher Schooling, Professional Reports, and Queen’s University of English, School of Education and learning
- Sherri Ferris, Custodian and CUPE Nearby 229 President, Facilities
- Oonagh Maley, Supervisor, Particular Initiatives, Office environment of the VP (Finance and Administration)
- Supriya Venigalla, Exclusive Assignments Officer, Business office of the VP (Finance and Administration)
- Justine Macdonald, Instructor, Queen’s College of English, College of Education
- Heidi Penning, Equity Advisor, Human Rights and Equity Workplace
- Katherine Smith, Recruitment Assistance Representative, Human Assets










Launched in 2021 and sponsored by the Place of work of the Vice-Principal (Finance and Administration), the Queen’s Profession Gateway Software is built for equity-deserving people, such as newcomers to Kingston and refugees, to secure employment at Queen’s whilst receiving English-language training. By means of community companions like ReStart Work Providers and Immigrant Solutions Kingston, group users figured out about opportunity limitations and explored novel techniques for Queen’s to recruit and help varied expertise. For case in point, meeting in the very same classroom for each and every session helped members to produce a perception of belonging and elevated their engagement with just about every other, the instructor, and the topic matter. Staff users attended on a regular basis and available their ordeals as visitor speakers. The seven members who concluded the plan received positions on the Queen’s Custodial Support Solutions group, positioning them as feasible candidates for long run chances. This year’s method includes inventive recruitment tactics to embed the application a lot more deeply in the Kingston newcomer group. Participants of the 1st cohort ended up eager to serve as mentors, which will only assistance this worthy initiative to mature.
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- Erik Bigras, System Generation and Supply Direct, School of Arts and Science On line

As Training course Production and Shipping and delivery Direct, Erik manages the Finding out Administration Systems experts workforce and coordinates on line study course improvement. As a leader in technological know-how innovation, his talent and judgement are respected faculty extensive, and he mentors other people as he learns the most successful approaches to undertake and carry out technologies. He has a reward of taking complex difficulties and technologies, knowing the limitations and possibilities, and operationalizing them with really reasoned, perfectly-communicated and considerate procedures to guarantee accomplishment. In the early times of the pandemic, when Arts and Science On line was requested to pivot to assistance all faculty exams, he was a quiet voice as issues rapidly shifted on line and to new technology. He built techniques to ensure that learners were in the proper digital location to compose their examinations, and at the suitable time, specified so lots of time zones had been concerned. Erik’s ideas centre on pupils, are considerate of staff, supportive of faculty, effective, expense efficient and sustainable.
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- Sarah Bunting, Educational Advisor and Tutorial Thing to consider Coordinator, Student Expert services, Faculty of Arts and Science

Because arriving at Queen’s 6 yrs ago, Sarah has been a tireless advocate for fairness, range, and inclusion and this passionate advocacy and solid leadership techniques are crucial to making sure that social occasions occur, funding is secured, newsletters go out, and that senior management is created informed of and supported in conference the requirements of fairness-deserving groups. As a staff members senator on the Senate Educational Equity Committee, Sarah was concerned in language and coverage updates and reviewed the 2018 USW 2010 Collective Arrangement to recommend language improvements to replicate its diverse membership and supports for mental wellbeing and work-existence equilibrium. Sarah is an arranging member of the Queen’s Women’s Community (QWN) and Queen’s University Association of Queer Employees, two of the university’s oldest Employee Useful resource Groups (ERGS). In addition to producing communications, Sarah oversees education and support for QWN’s mentorship plan and is functioning to revive EquiTEA, a team of associates from all the ERGs, to enable them to coordinate and collectively build solidarity and group across the college.
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- Margaret Goslin, Supervisor, Operations, Human Resources

Margaret Goslin is identified for her commitment, challenging work, and good mindset. Her Human Assets coworkers count on her institutional knowledge about units and processes, acquired through her 20-plus a long time of working experience in performing in Administration, Client Services and Employee Relations. Her function affects all Queen’s team associates as she guarantees that they are compensated on time and the right way, that they have a seamless changeover to a depart of absence, or that they have the information they require to make a decision about gains. Margaret mentors HR industry experts setting up their careers and below her management, these staff members have expanded their awareness and have been rewarded with new prospects. She brings enjoyment into the place of work for terrific brings about, together with the Coronary heart and Stroke Basis Large Bike Ride. Above the a long time, her initiatives have brought in hundreds of pounds to the neighborhood by way of friendly competition. She is living evidence that there are individuals who make do the job a small extra entertaining, a minimal extra fulfilling and who encourage us to be much better personnel and colleagues. Margaret is that particular person you will often keep in mind – many years right after she has still left an impact on you.
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- Keith Harper, Standard Technician, Department of Biology

As normal technician in the Section of Biology, Keith Harper is a proficient dilemma solver, group chief, and jack-of-all-trades. His creativeness and perseverance advance Biology’s exploration effects, sustainability, and scholar mastering working experience. Keith is often eager to lend a serving to hand, no issue the task and he gives impressive and sustainable alternatives. He learns new techniques to re-reason, repair, and retrofit existing gear. For instance, he has saved furniture from landfills by sourcing new upholstery and changing worn-out casters on chairs. He has updated cabinets with new hardware and fresh paint, and restored sinks to glance like new. Keith knows area suppliers and endorses buys and stays latest with overall health and safety rules to properly dispose of dangerous squander. His ongoing attempts have lowered expenditures as properly as Queen’s environmental footprint. When an emergency occurs at any time of working day – or evening – Keith is there. He has saved initiatives, samples, devices, and irreplaceable specimens. When a massive wander-in freezer malfunctioned on a Sunday, Keith spent the day and perfectly into the evening dispersing contents into freezers about the constructing. Keith fosters a sense of neighborhood in the section by organizing annual barbecues and pancake breakfasts, encouraging other maple-syrup makers to be a part of in a welcoming level of competition to crown the best maple syrup of the yr!
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- Kelly Sedore, Chemical Technologist, Division of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Used Science

Kelly Sedore is a massive explanation why Chemical Engineering has the optimum safety criteria in the College of Engineering and Used Science and are among the optimum college extensive. She oversees the security teaching of all who use the division laboratories and supports undergraduate labs, keeping twenty-3 experiment assignments. In the early times of the pandemic, Kelly ran a hand-sanitizer production operation that equipped professional medical-grade hand disinfectant to Kingston Health Sciences Centre and ensured adequate materials for constructing functions. This was showcased in Driving the Mask, a collection of tales from Kingston front-line employees. Also in 2020, she ran labs remotely by filming movies of experiment demonstrations and the use of tools. Moreover, Kelly is a department protection officer, co-chair of the faculty’s Joint Overall health and Basic safety committee, and the Return to Get the job done and Accommodation representative for CUPE Local 254. Outside the lab, Kelly attends open residences, homecoming weekends, first-yr orientation, and several other activities. She retains in contact with graduates and by no means passes up an prospect to reunite with alumni.
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- Anna van der Meulen, Section Manager and Undergraduate Chair, College of Kinesiology and Overall health Scientific studies (SKHS)

As department manager and undergraduate chair in the School of Kinesiology and Health and fitness Reports (SKHS), Anna van der Meulen is a initial point of make contact with for college, personnel, and college students. She oversees curriculum, hires training assistants, and manages workers. Her mission is to make certain that the college is an effective, effective, and delighted location to do the job. To this conclusion, she is fully commited to the Indigenization, Equity, Variety, Inclusion, Anti-Racism and Accessibility ideas (I-EDI-AA) and operates tirelessly to guarantee that they are embedded in the college. Anna strives to meet the needs of students separately and collectively and facilitates typical, high quality interactions concerning pupils and college by way of little seminars, analysis internships, and unbiased analyze possibilities. Continuous curriculum innovation is on Anna’s radar as she focuses on gaps and opportunities and strategizes about how to deal with them decades in progress. Lately, Anna was concerned in all phases of producing an undergraduate kinesiology laboratory that has transformed students’ hands-on experience. This incorporated securing the funding, renovating the place, and getting the devices to meet up with the demands of college throughout a selection of disciplines.
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