{"id":495834,"date":"2026-02-24T07:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/495834\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T07:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:45:07","slug":"university-of-winnipeg-chemistry-department-celebrates-student-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/495834\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Winnipeg &#8211; Chemistry department celebrates student excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students and faculty in UWinnipeg&#8217;s Department of Chemistry gathered on Friday, February 6 for the annual Chemistry Awards celebration.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive_news\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/id_news_0_20260220010218_6998a43e54133.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>From left: Chemistry award recipients Kurtis Boily, Sahilpreet Singh, Simarpreet Kaur, Kiersten Hiebert, Chiara Martin, Gabrielle Martin, Leiva Mann.<\/p>\n<p>Chemistry scholarships are awarded annually to students with outstanding academic records in the fields of chemistry or biochemistry.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve outstanding students were recognized for their academic excellence at this year&#8217;s awards event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A handful of the award recipients present received multiple awards, including Kurtis Boily and Gabrielle Martin.<\/p>\n<p>Boily received a Chemistry Faculty Award, the Molly Rogers Brickman &amp; Leo Brickman Scholarship in Chemistry, the George Tomlinson Scholarship in Biochemistry, and the Ingrid and Klaus Philipp Scholarship in Chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>Martin received a Biochemistry Faculty Award, the Klaus and Ingrid Philipp Scholarship in Biochemistry, and the Philipp Scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>Other students awarded included Marie Alcantara, Prerna Dhillon, Maleena Grewal, Kiersten Hiebert, Christopher Hermann, Ahmed Kasem, Simarpreet Kaur, Leiva Mann, Chiara Martin, and Sahilpreet Singh.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to each of this year&#8217;s Chemistry Award winners!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students and faculty in UWinnipeg&#8217;s Department of Chemistry gathered on Friday, February 6 for the annual Chemistry Awards&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-495834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}