September 2, 2005 Source: Dalhousie University:
http://www.dal.ca/news/media/2005/2005-09-02.html Dal Professor Receives Top Public Service Award Dalhousie professor Peter Aucoin has been awarded one of the highest honours in the Canadian public service. Aucoin received the 2005 Vanier Medal this week from the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC). Luc Bernier, President of IPAC and Director of Research and Education and Professor at the Ecole nationale d’administration publique, presented the award during IPAC’s annual conference. “Peter Aucoin is an outstanding teacher and one of Canada’s most respected political scientists,” Bernier said. “His publications are regarded as authoritative texts on public administration, both in this country and around the world.” Aucoin has taught in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie since 1970. He has been chair of that department and director of the school of public administration, and is today the Eric Dennis Memorial Professor of Government and Political Science/Professor of Public Administration at Dalhousie. Aucoin is recognized both nationally and internationally as a leading theorist on the practice and reform of the public service, including the governance of the federal cabinet and of political parties. He has contributed knowledge to the governments of Canada, the United Kingdom and Cuba, as well as to provinces, municipalities, agencies, committees and courts. He was a research coordinator for the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada (the Macdonald Commission, 1983-85) and research director for the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing (the Lortie Commission, 1990-92). The Vanier Medal was created in 1962 in honour of Canada’s second Canadian Governor General, the Right Honourable Georges-P. Vanier. The list of past recipients reads like the “Who’s Who” of the profession. It is awarded annually by IPAC to a person who has shown distinctive leadership and accomplishment in Canadian public service. About Dalhousie: Dalhousie is a comprehensive, research-intensive university with more than 15,500 students. In The Scientist magazine, it was recently named one of the best non-commercial places to work as a scientific researcher outside the United States. Media inquiries, contact:
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