{"id":4463,"date":"2005-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfiledev.uit.yorku.ca\/2005\/05\/04\/fes-alum-wins-green-toronto-award-of-excellence\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T11:53:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:53:58","slug":"fes-alum-wins-green-toronto-award-of-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2005\/05\/04\/fes-alum-wins-green-toronto-award-of-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"FES alum wins Green Toronto Award of Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><IMG alt=\"Norman 'Sam' Benvie\" hspace=\"8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20050504\/sbenvie.jpg\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"8\" border=\"0\">York alumnus <STRONG>Norman \"Sam\" Benvie (left)&nbsp;<\/STRONG>(MES '99) received a <A href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/greentoronto\/\"><U><FONT color=\"#0000ff\">Green Toronto<\/U><\/FONT><\/A> Award of Excellence for design Monday at the City of Toronto\u2019s award dinner honouring and celebrating leading companies, organizations and individuals who have contributed to the greening of Toronto. Benvie is an instructor in landscape architecture at Ryerson University and was nominated by Dawn Bazely, biology professor in York\u2019s Faculty of Science &amp; Engineering, for his habitat restoration project outside the Ryerson Architecture Building. Bazely, who is also adjunct professor with the University of Manitoba, is one of two supervisors for Benvie\u2019s doctoral studies there. The other is York alumnus St\u00e9phane McLachlan (PhD \u201898), professor in U of M's Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources,&nbsp;who was Bazely\u2019s first PhD student in biology at York.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>For more information, visit&nbsp;the&nbsp;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/environment\/\"><U><FONT color=\"#0000ff\">Green Toronto Awards of Excellence<\/U><\/FONT><\/A>&nbsp;Web site. <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>York alumnus Norman 'Sam' Benvie (MES '99) received a Green Toronto Award of Excellence for design Monday at the City of Toronto\u2019s award dinner...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yfileauthor":[],"qualifier":[],"yfile-author":[],"tags-to-show":[],"workflow":[],"class_list":["post-4463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":{"internal_publish_date":null,"original_image":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - 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