Chancellor&#039;s Award / en Mary C. Lyne and Terry Gardiner receive Chancellor’s Awards /celebrates/mary-c-lyne-and-terry-gardiner-receive-chancellor-s-awards <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Mary C. Lyne and Terry Gardiner receive Chancellor’s Awards</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-04-16T11:53:08-04:00" title="Friday, April 16, 2021 - 11:53" class="datetime">Fri, 04/16/2021 - 11:53</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/staff" hreflang="en">Staff</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/awards-excellence" hreflang="en">Awards of Excellence</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/alumni-association" hreflang="en">Alumni Association</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/rotman-school-management" hreflang="en">Rotman School of Management</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/factor-inwentash-faculty-social-work" hreflang="en">Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-kinesiology-physical-education" hreflang="en">Faculty of Kinesiology &amp; Physical Education</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-law" hreflang="en">Faculty of Law</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/chancellor-s-award" hreflang="en">Chancellor's Award</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Gardiner-Lyne.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Terry Gardiner and Mary Lyne"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">(Photo of Gardiner by Natasha Lan; photo of Lyne courtesy of Lyne) </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>For their exceptional leadership and impact on the 山ǿ community, two staff members – <b>Mary C. Lyne</b> and <b>Terry Gardiner</b> – have received the Distinguished Leader Chancellor’s Award.</p> <p>The honour is one of&nbsp;<a href="https://alumni.utoronto.ca/news-and-stories/news-and-articles/celebrating-winners-2021-utaa-awards-excellence">the Awards of Excellence presented by the University of Toronto Alumni Association</a>&nbsp;in collaboration with the university. The prestigious program dates back to 1921 and recognizes outstanding faculty, staff and students.</p> <p>As chief administrative officer of the Rotman School of Management, Lyne has had a profound impact on initiatives ranging from equity, diversity and inclusion, to financial transparency and the COVID-19 pandemic response. &nbsp;</p> <p>In honouring Lyne, <a href="https://alumni.utoronto.ca/awards-excellence-recipients-2021#chancellord1">the alumni association notes</a> that colleagues and staff members credit her&nbsp;for building a culture of professionalism, respect and inclusivity. They praise her balanced and strategic thinking, and her great capacity for collaboration and partnerships.</p> <p>Gardiner, meanwhile, has worked for more than a decade to advance equity, diversity and inclusion at 山ǿ – first at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and then at the Faculty of Kinesiology &amp; Physical Education, and now as a student mental health and wellness program manager in the Faculty of Law. He collaborates with students and staff on a broad range of programs and activities that support improved mental health and wellness, volunteers as a dance instructor and conducts weekly mindfulness sessions for LGBTQ+ members of the community.</p> <p>In honouring Gardiner, <a href="https://alumni.utoronto.ca/awards-excellence-recipients-2021#chancellord2">the alumni association notes</a> that his supervisors and colleagues praise him as a thoughtful community-builder, a caring mentor and a true leader who is deeply committed to students and their well-being.</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Alumni Association</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 16 Apr 2021 15:53:08 +0000 lanthierj 169113 at Horatio Bot and Archana Sridhar receive Chancellor’s Awards /celebrates/horatio-bot-and-archana-sridhar-receive-chancellor-s-awards <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Horatio Bot and Archana Sridhar receive Chancellor’s Awards</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-04-16T11:44:11-04:00" title="Friday, April 16, 2021 - 11:44" class="datetime">Fri, 04/16/2021 - 11:44</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/staff" hreflang="en">Staff</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/awards-excellence" hreflang="en">Awards of Excellence</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/alumni-association" hreflang="en">Alumni Association</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/chancellor-s-award" hreflang="en">Chancellor's Award</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/bot-sridhar.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Horatio Bot and Archana Sridhar"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">(Photo courtesy of Bot; photo by Soko Negash) </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>For their inspiring leadership and positive impact within the 山ǿ community and beyond, two staff members – <b>Horatio Bot</b> and <b>Archana Sridhar</b> – have received the Influential Leader Chancellor’s Award.</p> <p>The honour is one of&nbsp;<a href="https://alumni.utoronto.ca/news-and-stories/news-and-articles/celebrating-winners-2021-utaa-awards-excellence">the Awards of Excellence presented by the University of Toronto Alumni Association</a>&nbsp;in collaboration with the university. The prestigious program dates back to 1921 and recognizes outstanding faculty, staff and students.</p> <p>As executive director of budget, planning and finance in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science, Horatio played a crucial role in the achievement of a key objective for the university sector – the creation of the Ontario University Pension Plan – while providing expertise, diplomacy and exceptional negotiation skills to successfully and positively engage non-unionized employees at 山ǿ and collaborate with colleagues across 山ǿ, Queen's University and the University of Guelph. He also helped form a new standard in defined benefit pension management within the university sector.</p> <p><a href="https://alumni.utoronto.ca/awards-excellence-recipients-2021#chancellori1">The alumni association notes</a> that his colleagues praise him as an exceptional ambassador who patiently guided and motivated his peers throughout previously uncharted waters, with his outstanding negotiation, advocacy and interpersonal skills.</p> <p>Sridhar, assistant provost since&nbsp;2012,&nbsp;has demonstrated strong leadership in her roles as crisis manager, project leader, adviser, advocate and mentor. Widely regarded as a master of crisis management, she was chosen to lead the working group that revised U&nbsp;of&nbsp;T’s crisis and emergency response framework, and has presented on the topic to university associations across Canada. She was also at the forefront of U&nbsp;of&nbsp;T’s crisis response to COVID-19, quickly organizing a co-ordinated response across the entire institution.</p> <p>In honouring Sridhar, <a href="https://alumni.utoronto.ca/awards-excellence-recipients-2021#chancellori2">the Alumni Association notes</a> that supervisors and colleagues describe Sridhar as a compassionate relationship builder with superb consensus-building skills and unique talents for empathy, nuance and communication.</p> <div style="page-break-after: always"><span style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span></div> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Alumni Association</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 16 Apr 2021 15:44:11 +0000 lanthierj 169112 at Luke Barber and Gina Trubiani receive Chancellor’s Awards /celebrates/luke-barber-and-gina-trubiani-receive-chancellor-s-awards <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Luke Barber and Gina Trubiani receive Chancellor’s Awards</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-04-16T11:37:46-04:00" title="Friday, April 16, 2021 - 11:37" class="datetime">Fri, 04/16/2021 - 11:37</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/staff" hreflang="en">Staff</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/mississauga" hreflang="en">Mississauga</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/awards-excellence" hreflang="en">Awards of Excellence</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/alumni-association" hreflang="en">Alumni Association</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/u-t-mississauga" hreflang="en">山ǿ Mississauga</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/chancellor-s-award" hreflang="en">Chancellor's Award</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Gina-Trubiani_Lucas-Barber.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Gina Trubiani and Lucas Barber"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">(Photo of Trubiani courtesy of Trubiani; photo of Barber by Drew Lesiuczok) </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>For their strong leadership and outstanding contributions to the 山ǿ community, two staff members – <b>Luke&nbsp;Barber</b> and <b>Gina Trubiani</b> – have received the Emerging Leader Chancellor’s Award.</p> <p>The honour is one of&nbsp;<a href="https://alumni.utoronto.ca/news-and-stories/news-and-articles/celebrating-winners-2021-utaa-awards-excellence">the Awards of Excellence presented by the University of Toronto Alumni Association</a>&nbsp;in collaboration with the university. The prestigious program dates back to 1921 and recognizes outstanding faculty, staff and students.</p> <p>As director of information and instructional technology services at 山ǿ Mississauga, Barber led a complete transformation of campus technology when the COVID-19 pandemic hit – rolling out remote capabilities to equip the entire campus with online resources and upgrading classrooms with camera systems to support remote instructional delivery. He also took the lead in setting up Zoom for the tri-campus community.</p> <p>In honouring Barber, <a href="https://alumni.utoronto.ca/awards-excellence-recipients-2021#chancellore2">the alumni association notes</a> that hissupervisors and colleagues praise him as a generous manager who consistently demonstrates his appreciation for others. He is admired as an authentic leader who brings out the best in everyone.</p> <p>Trubiani, director of occupational health and safety and associate director of environmental health and safety, has long demonstrated her impressive leadership, collaborative style and creative problem-solving. In early 2020, she stepped up to lead the university’s health and safety response to the COVID-19 pandemic – ensuring that essential on-campus work proceeded in compliance with all public health requirements, collaborating on health and safety guidelines for students abroad, and developing COVID-19 case management protocol.&nbsp;</p> <p>In honouring Trubiani, <a href="https://alumni.utoronto.ca/awards-excellence-recipients-2021#chancellore1">the alumni association notes</a> that colleagues say Trubiani rose to the challenge of her many new responsibilities with calm, generosity and resilience. Highly regarded for her diplomacy and judgment, she is described as a true leader who instills confidence and gives everyone the reassuring sense that, “We’ve got this, we’ll adapt and persevere.”</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Alumni Association</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 16 Apr 2021 15:37:46 +0000 lanthierj 169111 at