Today@Dal

Shout-Out is a new peer-to-peer recognition program that allows you to informally give a shout-out to someone in your faculty, department or unit, or in the broader Dal community, who has helped you or your team in some way — big or small, during the past year.

Each day in Today@Dal for the next couple of weeks we'll be featuring just some of the many shout-outs submittted. It will take us some time to feature them all, so make sure to visit the Shout-Out site in myDal for all of the latest kudos and thanks!

Submit your own "shout-out" on myDal.

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Roberta Barker     Fountain School of Performing Arts, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Roberta's leadership as Acting Dean during this challenging year has been simply wonderful. Effective, efficient, humane, and warmhearted. She has supported the whole of FASS in so many ways. I am truly grateful Roberta was at the helm this year.

Martha Radice

Roderick Stewart & Deborah Henderson     Department of Biology, Faculty of Science

Rod & Debbie have been a huge help this past year. When couriers could no longer deliver directly to our offices in the Life Science Centre, all deliveries came to the Biology Stores. As well, all out going shipments had to be arranged for pick up from Biology Stores. Rod & Debbie have been great for making sure all incoming packages get sorted, notifying each department, and that outgoing ones do get picked up.

Amanda Martin

Dr. Roger McLeod, Dr Valerie Chappe and Sara Lavender      Medical Research Development Office, Faculty of Medicine

Hi, thanks for your exemplary leadership, support and guidance and for always having the teams back and helping us navigate through some tough spots. It is exciting, adventurous, and an amazing learning opportunity to work with you guys and the team.

Shirin Shaikh

Kate Hide      Faculty of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Dept

Kate has been the Department Administrator since the Fall of 2019. She has been an outstanding person to work with. We say "work with" because she has respect, compassion and appreciation for those who work for the department. She is always approachable if you have a question or issue you may need to discuss. She never makes you feel that any issue is not worth her time no matter how small. It is a joy to come to work everyday knowing that you have someone who supports and appreciates you as a person first and employee second.

Donna Laffin

Susan Dempster and Diane Ross      Facilities Management, Agricultural Campus

My shout-out is for Susan and Diane. They are the Haley Janitors and always do a stellar job at keeping our building clean and sanitized. They are not only efficient at their jobs, they are great people to get along with; always with a smile and cheery hello. We are lucky they work in our building.

Marilyn Roberts

Joanna Afghani     Faculty of Management

Joanna joined the Dean's Office in April and has brought new energy and fresh perspective to our communications. The graphics she created to help inspire us to do acts of community kindness for #mgmtRACK are so appreciated. Love having you on the team, Joanna!

Nicole Maunsell

Emily Balkum      School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Faculty of Health

Emily Balkum is such a great colleague. I just want her to know how appreciate she is. She goes above and beyond for her students and her colleagues. The school is very lucky to have her on the team!

Sarah Mason

Shauna Hachey       School of Dental Hygiene, Faculty of Dentistry

Professor Shauna Hachey deserves a huge acknowledgement for playing a significant role in decision making and ensuring that the Diploma of Dental Hygiene, Class of 2021 was able to complete clinical program requirements and competencies - on time! Despite 3 waves of COVID, Professor Hachey never faltered and deserves a shout out for providing a path for the Class of 2021 to complete these competencies required for graduation and to be eligible to write board exams. A simple thank you is not enough.We are in your debt!

Leigha Rock

Staff and Admin, Department of Biology      Department of Biology, Faculty of Science

Special, HUGE thank you to all the support staff and administrators in Biology for keeping things running smoothly over the past year, and handling all the emails, questions, concerns... be it with purchasing, payroll, registering, the website, coming to campus to help gather/find things as needed. Special shout out to those that helped me --- Chris, Carolyn, Aileen, Bev, Rod, Deb, John, Amber, and Doug -- but there are so many more of you that have been instrumental, always, and especially this year. Thank you!

Jen Frail-Gauthier

Julie Hallett       Communications, Marketing and Creative Services (CMC)

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Julie for years and recently welcomed her to the CMC team in December. Anyone who knows Julie knows that she is talented, dedicated, smart and strategic. She’s doing an exceptional job leading her team and several key initiatives including the development of the interim recruitment marketing campaign for this fall and the university’s brand refresh project. So grateful to have you on the team, for your work this past year and look forward to all we’ll accomplish this coming year!

Keri Irwin

Kerrianne Ryan       Together@Dal program

Working with Kerrianne as a Dal student employee has been an amazing experience, I was given guidance, inspiration, and all the tools I needed to launch and produce quality podcast series (DalTalk) with over 100 total plays. Kerrianne, you rock!

Eptehal Nashnoush

Lara Gibson      Department of Biology, Faculty of Science

To my partner in BIOL 2003 Crime :) --- I couldn't have asked for a better colleague to teach a course with over the years, especially during online COVID. You are incredibly dedicated to giving the students a well-rounded course that teaches way more than just content - but about appreciating the natural world around them, and to always stay curious. Thank you for being you!

Jen Frail-Gauthier

Lyle Quinn      Communications, Marketing and Creative Services (CMC)

This past year has required innovation, nimbleness and an ability (and willingness to dig deep) and Lyle has done just that. His work on developing and executing a new homepage strategy, building the COVID microsite, conducting research and engagement sessions with the Dal community and onboarding an agency to kick off work on the multi-year Dal.ca renewal demonstrates some of the ways that Lyle is always bringing a fresh and strategic lens to the team. So thankful to have you on the team!

Keri Irwin

The Faculty of Open Learning and Career Development Team.     Faculty of Open Learning and Career Development

Our entire Faculty Team stepped up to the plate when COVID hit last year. They embraced the challenges presented by the move to online teaching, the loss of revenue from face-to-face courses, and the need to create new courses and programs, all the while undergoing major organizational change, including a name change. The Faculty of Open Learning and Career Development rocks!

Dianne Tyers

James Crouse    Schools of Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health

James has been the glue that has kept our teaching labs going in the Schools of OT and PT over the last year. He has been involved in the move of equipment for our labs to another building for two schools, made sure everything worked properly, is there on a daily basis for troubleshooting and has asked the questions that none of us would even think to ask regarding relocation. He is a rockstar!

Shelley Colbourne