News in 2020

Congratulations to the following Hill Students who were 2020 Circle of Scholars Scholarship recipients:

• Luke Anderson
• Jessica Goebel
• Jenna Meili
• Stacey Moore
• Bryden O’Flaherty
• Cindy Zhang

Congratulations to the 82 students from the Hill School of Business and 24 students from the Levene Graduate School of Business who convocated in Fall 2020.

Congratulations also to Ryan Hamilton who was the recipient of the Dean’s Medal & President’s Medal and Tyler Marin who was the recipient of the University Prize in Business Administration.

Check out the convocation video created by the Hill and Levene Schools to celebrate our Fall 2020 graduates here.

Dr. Gordon Pennycook has been named a Member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

A story was included on the U of R Homepage about this honour.

The following projects were funded through a Dean’s Call for Special Projects Related to COVID-19 Research:

• Dr. Shelagh Campbell - Universities and COVID-19 Work Arrangement Studies
• Dr. Magdalena Cismaru - What to Convey in Public Service Announcements Aiming at Promoting Mental Health during COVID-19 Pandemic
• Dr. Gordon Pennycook - Understanding why People are Hesitant about Getting Vaccinated for COVID-19

Dr. Gordon Pennycook was the recipient of a SSHRC Insight Grant for $316,160 for his project “The psychology of online disinformation”.

Gord’s application for the grant was placed in the top sextile and ranked 4th. Gord’s project was featured in a U of R Homepage story with the U of R’s other successful SSHRC recipients.

Congratulations to the 286 students from the Hill School of Business and 39 students from the Levene Graduate School of Business who convocated in Spring 2020.

Congratulations also to  Brent Maksymiw who was the EMBA Valedictorian, Owen Kot who was the recipient of the Faculty of Business Administration Dean’s Medal and Evan Duguid who was the recipient of the the Leon Goldman Scholarship.

Congratulations to Brent, Owen, Evan and all of our graduates!

Check out the convocation video created by the Hill and Levene Schools to celebrate our Spring graduates here.

Dr. Gordon Pennycook is the recipient of a $50,000 USD grant from “Reset” (a project of Luminate Projects Limited) for his project, “Interventions to Combat the Spread of Misinformation on Social Media” with collaborator is David Rand (MIT).

The 2019 GEM Saskatchewan Report, by Dr. Chris Street and Dr. Chad Saunders, was recently released. The report looks at entrepreneurship in Saskatchewan for 2018.

Other national and provincial reports from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) can be found on their website ( under research/reports).

Congratulations to our Enactus Regina team who was a national semifinalist for the second year in a row at Enactus Canada’s Virtual National Exposition. In addition to being a semifinalist the team received the following awards/recognitions:

• their project Readapt was one of three winners of the Scotiabank Youth Empowerment Best Project Idea Award (Project Manager Arslan Azeem),
• Hill student, Jana Ham was one of six HSBC Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Award finalists, and
• Dean Gina Grandy was recognized as Campus Administration of the Year.

Dr. Gordon Pennycook along with team members Timothy Caulfield (University of Alberta, Law), Cheryl Peters (University of Calgary, Health Sciences), and Christen Rachul (University of Manitoba, Health Sciences) has received funding from the Government of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Operating Grant: Canadian 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Rapid Research Funding Opportunity.

Their project called “Coronavirus Outbreak: Mapping and Countering Misinformation” received a total grant of $381,708 with $75,068 of that coming to Regina.

With the arrival of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan the Hill BSS had to cancel all in-person events and rethink their 2020 5 Days for the Homeless campaign which was to have ran March 15-20.

In place of their regular schedule of fundraisers they held an online raffle in support of Carmichael Outreach and continued to encourage people to donate online.

In spite of these challenges the group was still able to raise $42,034.66 for Carmichael Outreach, bringing their total funds raised for Carmichael to $380,278.85 since 2010! Hats off and congratulations to everyone involved, and thanks to everyone who contributed to the campaign.

The University of Regina’s Long Service Recognition Awards took place on March 12.

Members of the Faculty of Business Administration who were honoured include Bill Bonner, Romulus Cismaru, Megan Costiuk, Dwight Heinrichs, Randy Linton and Arturo Rubalcava for 15 years of service; and Janeen Brown, Tatiana Levit, Kelly-Ann McLeod, George Peng, Adrian Pitariu, Chris Street and Sean Tucker for 10 years of service.

Our Enactus Regina team competed at the Enactus Regional Competition in Calgary on February 27 and 28. The group brought home a 1st place finish in the CWB Financial Education Challenge (for their work on financial literacy) and 3rd place in the TD Entrepreneurship Challenge (for their work on POE). 17 teams competed from across Western Canada - the students will now advance to the nationals.

Congratulations to all of the students and to Dr. Lisa Watson (Enactus Faculty Advisor)!