For more information, please contact Tracy Bowman by email at Tracy.Bowman@umanitoba.ca

Gather the following nomination package requirements:

About your nominee

• Contact information for your nominee, including their name, address, email, phone number.
• Your nominee's University of Manitoba degree(s), diploma(s), and certificate(s).
• Your nominee's degree(s) obtained at other universities.

About you

• Your contact information, including your name, address, email, and phone number.
• Your relationship to the nominee.

References

• Contact information for two references for your nominee, including their name, email, phone number, and relationship to the nominee.
• Two letters of reference for your nominee from two separate individuals other than the nominator or their immediate family members.
• Each reference letter should have 1-inch margins, font size no smaller than 10 pt, and be typed on the reference’s personal or organizational letterhead to be uploaded in .docx or .pdf format.

Your nomination write-up

Please prepare a write-up not exceeding 600 words for each category you intend to nominate someone. Tip: Please write your write-up and save it to a file before beginning your submission. Then copy and paste it into the form.

Lifetime Achievement Category

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

Professional Achievement Category

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

Academic Innovation Category

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)

Community Service Category

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

Outstanding Young Alumni Category

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

Additional Support Material

• Additional support material (i.e., CV, news articles, etc) of no more than 10 pages may be uploaded to complement the nomination.

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