Newfoundland & Labrador Teachers' Association Medal
This medal is awarded to a graduating student in Education who has had a consistently good academic record in the professional courses required for the degree and who has made an outstanding contribution to the Faculty of Education and to the University.
Dr. Heather Onyett Convocation Award for the Master of Public Health
This award was established by a donation from Dr. Heather Onyett, BAH (Modern History, Toronto), MD (Memorial University of Newfoundland), FRCPC, FAAP, Masters of Public Health (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Delta Omega Alpha), Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (Liverpool, Gold medal in International Community Health), Professor Emeritus, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. She was the first Pediatrician to graduate from Memorial University of Newfoundland’s Medical School, and provided comprehensive pediatric care in the Grenfell region of northern Newfoundland and Labrador (1979-1985), highlighted in the inaugural issue of the Grenfell Quarterly. Her specialty knowledge in Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine and Public Health has been infused into all of her clinical and scholarly activities in Canada, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Her expertise has been recognized with awards including the Boston University School of Public Health Summer Excellence in Teaching Award for Maternal and Child Health in Lower Income Countries. Valued at a portion of the income on the endowment, this convocation award will be given annually to a graduating student in the Master of Public Health program of the Division of Community Health and Humanities, Memorial University of Newfoundland. The recipient will be selected based on nomination by coordinators of the Master in Public Health programs, demonstrating academic excellence in the Master of Public Health program in the Division of Community Health and Humanities. The award will be granted by the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies on the recommendation of the Assistant Dean, Research and Graduate Studies, Faculty of Medicine.
Professional Engineers and Geoscientists Newfoundland and Labrador Anniversary Award
The Professional Engineers and Geoscientists Newfoundland and Labrador offers an Award in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science to mark the occasion of fifty years of Engineering education at Memorial University of Newfoundland. The award, to be tenable by a student in each year's graduating class, is to be awarded on the following conditions:
high academic standing;
outstanding leadership qualities;
involvement in extracurricular activities;
all-round contribution.
The selection of the winner is to be based on the recommendation of a Selection Committee within the Faculty.
Professional Engineers and Geoscientists Newfoundland and Labrador Award for Excellence
The Professional Engineers and Geoscientists Newfoundland and Labrador has established an "Award for Excellence", which may be made to a student at Memorial University of Newfoundland who obtains an Engineering degree in not more than eight consecutive academic terms and who has completed the prescribed courses with the highest average mark in all the courses. This award takes the form of a framed "Award for Excellence", suitably engraved, and presented by PEGNL at or about the time of Convocation.
Professional Engineers and Geoscientists Newfoundland and Labrador Award for Excellence in Geoscience