Dr. Gregory Spivak Memorial Award

Established through donations from colleagues, friends and family in memory of Dr. Greg Spivak. An active researcher and an award-winning chemistry professor, Greg joined Lakehead in 1999 where he taught until his passing in 2018. He was a Lakehead alumnus who obtained his HBSc in chemistry in 1992, earning first class standing, as well as an MSc in 1994. He then earned a PhD at the University of Western Ontario and held postdoctoral positions at Indiana University and Queen’s University. He returned to Thunder Bay to take up a faculty position in inorganic chemistry in 1999. Greg held multiple NSERC grants, supervised students at all levels, from first-year undergraduate to PhD, and published in top-ranked journals in his sub-discipline of organometallic chemistry. He taught thousands of students during his career at Lakehead and received a student nominated Contribution to Teaching award in 2017.

Awarded to a student with high academic standing enrolled in an Honours Bachelor of Science degree program majoring in Chemistry in their third or fourth year of study. Consideration will be based on the student’s performance in inorganic chemistry course(s). This award will be granted upon the recommendation of the Department of Chemistry.