IMI Awards | Institute for Management & Innovation (IMI)

Nominations for the 2025 IMI Awards are now open!

Nominations

Each year, the Institute for Management & Innovation honours its most innovative and collaborative IMI teams and team members. The IMI Awards provide us with a chance to honour our hardworking, innovative, and committed faculty & staff.

Award nominations are reviewed by a panel that includes staff, faculty, students, and alumni from across UTM.

Winners are celebrated at our annual IMI Awards Reception in June. We will be congratulating the 2025 winners on June 17th.

Deadline to submit an award nomination: April 30, 2025

Jump to an award:

IMI Faculty Award

This IMI faculty member will have significantly enhanced the overall support, learning and/or engagement of students and/or faculty within the Institute for Management & Innovation. This may be at an undergraduate or graduate level.

2024 Recipient: Michael Marin

IMI Research Award

This IMI faculty member will have been recognized for a significant research/scholarly contribution to their discipline. This contribution could be but is not limited to an original published work or key research contributions deemed innovative in nature.

2024 Recipient: Shashi Kant

IMI Staff Award

This IMI staff member will have significantly enhanced the overall support, learning and/or engagement of students, staff and/or faculty within the Institute for Management & Innovation.

2024 Recipient: Clerissa Albores

IMI Team Collaboration Award

This team of two or more members can include any balance of IMI faculty and staff (up to four (4) members). They will have collaboratively introduced and implemented a new program, product, or initiative that has significantly enhanced the overall support, learning and/or engagement of students, staff and/or faculty within the Institute for Management & Innovation.

2024 Recipient: ICUBE (Ignacio Mongrell, Kayla Sousa, Mohammad Tahvili)

IMI Alumni Award

This award recognizes and celebrates the professional achievements made by IMI alumni. The panel will be looking for an alumna/alumnus who may have made a significant contribution to their field, acted as a prominent voice within their discipline, and/or demonstrated their commitment to making the world a better place through innovative ideas and solutions. They may also be a recent graduate with outstanding achievements in a short time who have shown themselves to be a trailblazer in their chosen field.

Eligibility:

The nominated alumna/alumnus must have graduated at least two (2) years prior to the nomination.
The nomination should be for achievements related to their field of study at IMI.
Alumni are not eligible to nominate themselves for the award.

2024 Recipient: Mayur Mukati (MScSM Class of 2017)

IMIvator Award

This award is given to a current IMI graduate student (individual or group) who has used a multi-disciplinary approach in the conceptualization and/or creation of a new product, service, project, event, group or program that demonstrates innovative idea(s), enhances the student experience, and may have a long-lasting impact on students and/or community.

* Student(s) can be nominated for both the IMIvator and Social Leadership Awards.

IMI Social Leadership Award

This award is given to a current IMI graduate student (individual or group) who has led an initiative or conceptualized a product or service that focused directly on social responsibility, community well-being, and/or sustainable future. The contribution may focus on the well-being of IMI, UTM, the local community, or the broader community at large.

* Student(s) can be nominated for both the IMIvator and Social Leadership Awards.

2024 Recipient: Matt Reesor (MScSM Class of 2024)

IMI Emerging Technology & AI Award

This award is given to a current IMI graduate student (individual or group) who demonstrates exceptional creativity and innovation in leveraging an emerging technology or Artificial Intelligence (i.e., AI) algorithm in solving challenging real-world or simulated problems in their research or class projects. The award recognizes their potential and ability to leverage technology in novel, practical, and impactful ways.

2024 Recipient: Tolu Alebiosu (MScSM Class of 2024)

IMI Partnership Award

This award recognizes a partner of IMI, either a campus partner or external partner, for going above and beyond in partnership with IMI in order to significantly enhance, expand, or otherwise support IMI’s goals, mission, and purpose.

2024 Recipient: UTM Sustainability Office

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