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Jay "Blue Jay" Jourden Honored for Excellence as a Recording Artist

Jay "Blue Jay" Jourden serves as head of the music department at Global Film Studio




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Yolanda Yvonne Sayles, BS, MS, Lauded for Excellence in Information Technology

Yolanda Yvonne Sayles, BS, MS, lends years of expertise to her work with the Department of Defense




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Diane Fallier Recognized by Marquis Who's Who for Excellence in Education

Diane Fallier celebrates more than 10 years as an educator and program director at Nashua Community College




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African Achievement Awards 2024: A Celebration of African Excellence in the Pacific Northwest

The prestigious African Achievement Awards are set to take place live and in person for the first time, following years of virtual ceremonies due to the COVID-19 pandemic




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Duc T. Haba Recognized for Excellence in the Field of Technology

Duc T. Haba serves as the chief artificial intelligence officer of the GenAI World Association




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Rachel Anderson Celebrated for Excellence in Marketing and Consulting Services

Rachel Anderson is a fractional chief marketing officer and leadership coach at Pivot Studios




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Jim Montagano Recognized for Excellence in the Automotive Industry

Jim Montagano is the president and chief executive officer of Montagano Consulting LLC




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Alexandra J. Herrera, CMP, Honored for Excellence in the Events Production Industry

Alexandra J. Herrera, CMP, a Senior Director of Live Journalism at SEMAFOR




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Carol Dancer Recognized for Excellence in the Field of Entrepreneurship

Carol Dancer serves as the owner and president of Absorbent Specialty Products




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Bryan Ruben Venzen Demonstrates Excellence in Video Game Development

Bryan Ruben Venzen is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Let's Make FX LLC




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Elpis Kassimidou, MSc, Honored for Excellence in the Financial Sector

Hailing from a background in economics, Elpis Kassimidou, MSc, served at the National Bank of Greece for more than 30 years




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iuvo Technologies Wins Channel Partners Excellence Cloud Builder Award

We're serious about our cloud-forward approach and we are continuously innovating to ensure our customers succeed.




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Prestige Auto Spa NJ Celebrates Three Years of Excellence as Family-Owned Car Wash in Toms River, NJ

Prestige Auto Spa NJ proudly celebrated its third anniversary as a family-owned, full-service car wash and automotive service business on October 15, 2024.




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Dominic D. Yin, MA, MS, JD Lauded for Excellence in Law Enforcement and Education

Dominic D. Yin, MA, MS, JD lends years of expertise to his work with Paramount Group




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Sarah Fineran, MA Lauded for Excellence in Criminal Justice and Correctional Research and Analytics

Sarah Fineran, MA lends years of expertise to her work with the Iowa Department of Corrections




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Joseph P. Cassin Displays Excellence in Law Enforcement and Education

Joseph P. Cassin serves as the director of the East Texas Police Academy




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Rene A. Ronquillo Recognized for Excellence in the Field of Human Resources

Rene A. Ronquillo serves as the Director of Operations for the Dallas Independent School District Police Department




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Call for Entries open for 2025 Clean Beauty Awards: A Decade of Defining Excellence in Clean Beauty

Join the Celebration: Calling for all Clean Beauty Products in the industry




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Marquis Who's Who Honors Marlo E. McKinley for Excellence in Strategic Planning

Marlo E. McKinley serves as the senior director of global planning at BELLA+CANVAS




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Eric Vazquez Showcases Excellence in the Medical Device Industry

Eric Vazquez works with a North Carolina Community Health Center




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From Former Practices to Digital Excellence: BrightKey's Transformation of Mail Operations

Innovative Digital Strategies Transform Traditional Mail Operations, Boost Efficiency, and Support Environmental Goals




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Richard K. Gilbert, PhD Lauded for Excellence in International Relations and Education

Richard Gilbert lends years of expertise to his work with the Royal Government of Cambodia




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Melissa M. Verpile, Esq., Acknowledged by Marquis Who's Who for Excellence in Legal Counsel

Melissa M. Verpile is a sought-after consultant and policy expert




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Exemplar of excellence: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar receives the UC Presidential Medal

The larger-than-life UCLA alum, who brought the Bruins and Lakers glory on the court, is honored for his transformative work off of it.




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Excellence in Teaching and Research Honoured at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management

Toronto, ON – Seven faculty members at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management have received awards for achievements in research and teaching. Four faculty members were awarded with the 2016 Roger Martin Awards for Excellence in Research and Teaching. Established by Prof. Roger Martin, a former Dean of the Rotman School, the awards are […]




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Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: November 1, 2024

Thanks, as always, to Ryan McCormack for this. He always shares so much good reading, listening, and viewing here! Subscribe to get these directly from Ryan via email. News, articles, books, podcasts, and videos about how to make the workplace better. Operational Excellence, Improvement, and Innovation Operational Excellence, Improvement, and Innovation Will AI Transform the Factory Floor? Want a business case approved? Just say you are implementing GenAI. Process optimization has remained focused on leveraging […]

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Achieving Healthcare Excellence: Insights from Jarvis Gray on Lean Six Sigma and Leadership

Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #519 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Jarvis Gray, the Managing Director of The Quality Coaching Co. He offers more than 16 years of strategic planning, quality improvement, and operations leadership experience in the healthcare industry.  Through his firm, The Quality Coaching Co., Jarvis and his associates help healthcare organizations foster cultures of system-wide quality improvement by offering customized Lean Six […]

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Superior Battery Quality: How Automated Defect Recognition Supports Battery Manufacturers On Their Road To Excellence

Batteries are key to electrification, demanding high-quality control and efficient production. The use of Automated Defect Recognition (ADR) and other technologies is critical as the industry aims to scale up to meet the rising demand from electronics, electric vehicles, and energy storage sectors, while also minimizing environmental impacts.




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Rebuilding Boeing’s Quality: A New Approach to Manufacturing Excellence

Boeing needs to improve its manufacturing approach to prioritize transparency and continual improvement, which can also help other organizations improve their quality and bottom line.




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Maximizing Medical Device Quality: A Guide to Implementing Operational Excellence

Ensuring high quality in medical device manufacturing requires operational excellence, which optimizes efficiency and enhances product quality and compliance. Let’s explore some of the key elements and best practices.




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Total Quality Management: Paving the Road to Excellence

In our ever-changing world of global business, quality is a cornerstone of success. Organizations striving for excellence cannot afford to overlook Total Quality Management (TQM), a management philosophy centered on the continuous improvement of processes, products, and services through the involvement of all employees. 




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NIST Announces 2024 Baldrige Awards for Performance Excellence

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced that five organizations will receive the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s only presidential award for performance excellence.




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Driving excellence: The Centre for Blood Research and Canadian Blood Services renew collaboration to advance blood science education and training

Driving excellence: The Centre for Blood Research and Canadian Blood Services renew collaboration to advance blood science education and training


Tuesday, July 30, 2024 Kaitlyn Chuong

This blog was originally prepared by CBR communications and programs coordinator Kaitlyn Chuong and former Canadian Blood Services knowledge broker Dr. Travis Sztainert, with edits provided by Abby Wolfe. 

After more than 20 years, the Centre for Blood Research (CBR) and Canadian Blood Services are proud to share that they have renewed their collaboration agreement which supports education, training and knowledge mobilization for the next generation of trainees and researchers in blood science and transfusion at CBR.  

The collaboration agreement which is administered by Innovation and Portfolio Management at Canadian Blood Services has recently been extended for three more years to 2027. This agreement formalizes the next iteration of this long-standing partnership and is the result of continued commitment from both organizations to improve blood research.  

This partnership emerged in response to recommendations made following Canada’s public inquiry into the contaminated blood crisis of the 1980s and 1990s. Thus, to address a recognized gap in transfusion science knowledge, in 2002, a group of visionary blood researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) established Canada’s first interdisciplinary blood research centre — an entirely unique and valuable resource for established and emerging blood scientists. With its creation, the CBR brought together a wide range of multi-talented investigators to develop highly specialized labs to study blood and transfusion science. Since its inception, the CBR has grown to include more than 35 basic science, applied science, social science and clinical investigators in 12 departments, representing 6 faculties at UBC, with a focus on advancing knowledge of transfusion science and medicine in the lab and in the clinic.  

"We are delighted to extend our partnership with the Centre for Blood Research through 2027. This renewal highlights our shared commitment to advancing education, training, and research in transfusion science. Together, we aim to drive innovation and improve transfusion practices, ensuring a safer and more effective future for the Canadian blood system." 

Dr. Chantale Pambrun
Senior Medical Director, Innovation & Portfolio Management 

“The long-term relationship of Canadian Blood Services and the CBR has been nothing less than fantastic! By combining resources and sharing knowledge, education and research outputs, this unique partnership has resulted in more rapid and meaningful advances that are recognized locally, nationally and internationally. The entire transfusion medicine community has benefitted and will continue to do so.”  

Dr. Ed Conway
Director of the Centre for Blood Research

The partnership of Canadian Blood Services was integral to creating the Centre for Blood Research, providing essential start-up funding and continuing to support infrastructure for the centre and its training and education programs. Several Canadian Blood Services scientists are active members within the Centre for Blood Research including senior scientist Dr. Ed Pryzdial and adjunct scientists Dr. Ed Conway, Dr. Hongshen Ma and Dr. Jay Kizhakkedathu

Learn more about some of the research these scientists and members of their labs undertake in our previous R.E.D. blogs and videos:  

The CBR is grateful for Canadian Blood Services’ continuous support, without which its many educational, training and research programs would not be possible. This includes, for example, CBR’s Graduate Award Program and Summer Studentship Program, as well as the CBR's weekly seminar series and the annual Earl W. Davie and Norman Bethune symposia. 


Canadian Blood Services – Driving world-class innovation  

Through discovery, development and applied research, Canadian Blood Services drives world-class innovation in blood transfusion, cellular therapy and transplantation—bringing clarity and insight to an increasingly complex healthcare future. Our dedicated research team and extended network of partners engage in exploratory and applied research to create new knowledge, inform and enhance best practices, contribute to the development of new services and technologies, and build capacity through training and collaboration. Find out more about our research impact.   

The opinions reflected in this post are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Canadian Blood Services nor do they reflect the views of Health Canada or any other funding agency. 

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Maplesoft Presents Awards of Excellence to University of Birmingham Students

Maplesoft today announced that the 2017 Maplesoft Excellence Scholarship Awards are being presented to two graduate students from the University of Birmingham. The scholarships provide monetary assistance for three years to each student for their graduate studies. They were selected from a group of students that were instrumental in encouraging and contributing to the use of technology in various undergraduate courses at the university.




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HVAC Excellence Welcomes Dr. Michael Spangler to the Accreditation Team

Dr. Spangler brings invaluable expertise to advance HVAC Excellence's mission of helping HVACR educational programs meet industry-established standards through programmatic accreditation.




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JBS Heating and Air Conditioning Receives Bryant Medal of Excellence Award

California HVAC contractor JBS Heating and Air Conditioning has been named a recipient of the Bryant Medal of Excellence Award for the second consecutive year. The honor is awarded by Bryant Heating and Cooling Systems to local heating and air conditioning contractors that meet their high standards for customer satisfaction.




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Elevating HVAC Excellence: A Proactive Approach to Customer Relationships

The foundation of success for HVAC pros lies in establishing client relationships, recognizing that being the initial point of contact during times of need is paramount.




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AGU honors journalists Nadia Drake and Zack Savitsky for excellence in science journalism




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NOVA Chemicals Launches Canadian Centre of Excellence for Plastics Circularity

Centre aims to help achieve global plastics sustainability goals by focusing on R&D collaboration and value chain-integrated solutions.




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An organization that recognizes excellence in packaging has unexpected ties to my geographical roots and one of my favorite bands.

Now and then I like to reflect on how the packaging industry intersects with my personal background. This seems especially appropriate now since it was approximately one year ago that I became Chief Editor of Packaging Strategies.




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NAB Show Launches Excellence in Sustainability Awards

NAB Show is launching a new awards program to recognize individuals, companies and products for outstanding innovations in media technology that promote conservation and reusability of natural resources and foster economic and social development. The NAB Show Excellence in Sustainability Awards will be presented during a special ceremony on the Main Stage at NAB Show on April 15, 2023 in Las Vegas.




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NAB Show Now Accepting Entries for Excellence in Sustainability Awards

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NAB Show and AWS Select Creative Visions as Recipient of Proceeds from Inaugural Excellence in Sustainability Awards

Washington, D.C. -- NAB Show launched a new awards program in 2023 to recognize individuals, companies and products/services for outstanding innovations in media technology that promote conservation and reusability of natural resources and foster economic and social development. The NAB Show Excellence in Sustainability Awards will be presented during a special ceremony on the Main Stage at NAB Show on April 16, 2023, at 3:30 p.m. in Las Vegas. Prior to the awards ceremony, and open to all show attendees, the “Why Sustainability In Media Matters” panel will feature a discussion among industry leaders on sustainability in media today, and what it means for the future.




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NAB Show Announces Recipients of Excellence in Sustainability Awards

LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- NAB Show today announced the recipients of the newly launched Excellence in Sustainability Awards during a live awards ceremony on April 16 at the 2023 NAB Show in Las Vegas. The awards recognize individuals, organizations, and products/services for outstanding innovations in media technology that promote conservation and reusability of natural resources and foster economic and social development. The awards program is supported by Amazon Web Services (AWS).




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NAB Show Now Accepting Entries for Excellence in Sustainability Awards

Washington, D.C.— NAB Show is back for a second year accepting entries for the 2024 Excellence in Sustainability Awards. The awards will celebrate outstanding achievements in media technology and production, recognizing contributions that demonstrate significant sustainable impact, as well as foster economic and social development.




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NAB Show Honors Excellence in Sustainability Awards Winners

NAB Show today celebrated sustainability champions in six categories during its annual Excellence in Sustainability Awardsceremony.




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NAB Show Honors Excellence in Sustainability Awards Winners

NAB Show today celebrated sustainability champions in six categories during its annual Excellence in Sustainability Awards ceremony.





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MRCA Seeks Nominees for Naphis Mitchell Reyes Excellence in Safety Award

Help honor a safety professional in the roofing industry by nominating them for the MRCA's 2024 Naphis Mitchell Reyes Excellence in Safety Award.




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Dakota and Truckfile named as Finalists in the ‘Fleet Innovation of the Year’ category at the Supply Chain Excellence Awards 2023

Real-time data capture, printing, mobility and voice-directed solutions specialist Dakota, alongside partners Truckfile, the UK provider of web-based fleet and workshop management, drivers check and compliance systems, have been selected as finalists in the ‘Fleet Innovation of the Year’ Category at the Supply Chain Excellence Awards 2023.