Congratulations to Adrienne Tearle and Kathy Greaves on receiving President’s Awards for Outstanding Service in 2019.

Kathy has been part of the Department of Biology team for more than 35 years. As the Administrative Assistant, she supports the entire department. Kathy is the main contact for anyone visiting the department and has proven to be phenomenally successful in securing private-sector financial contributions for department and student events. Kathy is also well known for her support of international visitors and post-doctoral fellows as they navigate arriving not just at a new institution, but in a new country. Kathy was instrumental to the restructuring of administrative support roles in the department and in the Faculty of Science by, for example, streamlining administrative forms, producing user guides and improving internal communications. She provides invaluable support to both the Biology Graduate Students Association and the undergraduate Biology Society while also connecting the biology family by leading Halloween festivities, playing Elf in the annual research lab visits by Santa and volunteering with the McMaster Children’s Party.