Feature Story: Professor to receive prestigious Indspire Award

• Main Author: External Relations, University of Regina
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: External Relations, University of Regina 2015
• Subjects: First Nations University of Canada; Jo-Ann Episkenew; Indigenous Peoples’ Health Research Centre; Indspire Award; Roberta L. Jamieson; Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University; Canada; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10294/6290

Dr. Jo-Ann Episkenew, Director of the Indigenous Peoples’ Health Research Centre and a professor of English at First Nations University of Canada, has been named to receive the 2016 Indspire Award. Dr. Episkenew is one of 14 outstanding Indigenous Canadians selected as recipients of the award, which celebrates Indigenous achievement. "I am honoured. It’s hard to believe,” says Dr. Episkenew. “I look at people who receive this award and to be in the same company is really something.” The Indspire Awards were created in 1993 and represent among the highest honour the Indigenous community can bestow upon its own achievers. Staff no