Distinguished Alumni Awards

This award recognizes graduates who have shown personal and professional achievements and leadership throughout their lifetime and continue to make significant and transformative contributions to their profession, their community and the University of Manitoba. 

Nominees must demonstrate a lifetime of: 

• Outstanding contributions that made a transformative impact within their community 
• Exemplary achievement throughout their lifetime 
• Service to the University of Manitoba  

This award recognizes graduates who have made exemplary contributions to their profession and have previously received recognition from within their discipline. The focus of this award is professional achievement that is non-academic in nature. 

Nominees must demonstrate: 

• A standard of professional excellence throughout their career that has inspired their colleagues and peers with an emphasis on their professional achievements in the last three to five years 
• Exceptional leadership in their profession 
• Outstanding and transformative achievements recognized by the nominee’s professional community  

This award recognizes graduates who have made exemplary contributions to their academic career and have previously received recognition for their innovation, research excellence and mentoring in academia.   

Nominees must demonstrate: 

• Outstanding innovation and research achievements and excellence in academia that have had a major, transformative impact on the community and society to help make for a better world, with an emphasis on their academic innovation and research achievements in the last three to five years 
• Excellence in academic mentoring and publishing   
• Exceptional leadership in their area of academic innovation and research  
• At least 51% of their current or past employment (if retired / emeritus) in academia at a recognized post-secondary institution(s)

This award recognizes graduates who have had a transformative impact on those in their community, either at the local, national or international level.  

Nominees must demonstrate: 

• Extraordinary efforts that have made a positive impact on their community 
• Community service or volunteer work that has engaged and inspired others 
• Community service that is clearly outside of or above and beyond their professional discipline in a voluntary, charitable and non-paid capacity  

This award recognizes graduates who are under the age of 35 before the close of nominations who have demonstrated significant contributions and leadership to their field of endeavour, their community and the University of Manitoba.  

Nominees must demonstrate: 

• Inspiring achievements in their field 
• Contributions that have had a transformative impact in their community 
• Service to the University of Manitoba, both while as a student and ongoing as an alum