Janelle Celine Marie Deniset is the recipient of the fourth Bhai Kahan Singh Nabha Award.
This award, given by-annually to a University of Winnipeg student, was established by the Bhai Kahan Singh Nabha Foundation (2012) Inc., in recognition of the achievements of Bhai Kahan Singh Nabha -- a prolific writer whose works include Mahan Kosh: Encyclopaedia of Punjabi Language, literature, and Sikhism. The Awards selection committee of the University selects a graduating student with high academic achievement who studies religion, history, politics or human rights as an undergraduate or with in the Global College at the University of Winnipeg. Preference is given to students who have shown a particular interest in Punjabi culture and / or the Sikh religion.
Janelle Deniset has graduated with honours in Political Science at the University of Winnipeg. Next year she will be attending the Munk School of Global Affaires at the University of Toronto. In her Master's program she will be developing a thesis analyzing child labour and evaluating policy strategies to combat the phenomenon. She was an exchange student at the Metropolitan University of Prague where she studied international relations and European studies. She was also spent a week at the United Nations Intensive Summer School, co-hosted with Seton Hall University and the United nations Foundation. She met with over 22 specialists and practitioners who discussed peacekeeping, UN reform, counter-terrorism, the responsibility to protect women's rights and much more. There she attended a meeting of the Security Council.
Presently Janelle is active in number of volunteer activities such as a coach with the inner-city soccer program created by the University of Winnipeg Wesmen. In 2010 she was in Rwanda as a part of a humanitarian trip with an organization called "UBUNTU" to work in the field assisting widows and orphans of the Rwanda genocide. She is also a recipient of numerous awards.
Dr. James Christie and Dr. Mohinder Singh Dhillon congratulated Miss Deniset on her achievements and presented the certificate of distinction by the University of Winnipeg and the Bhai Kahan Singh Nabha Award along with a book "Sikh Religion and Culture written by Dewan Singh.
Dr. James Christie and Dr. Mohinder Singh Dhillon presenting the Bhai Kahan Singh Nabha Award along with a book "Sikh Religion and Culture written by Dewan Singh to Janelle Celine Marie Deniset. Dr. James Christie, BA, MDiv, MA, DMin, is Professor of Dialogue Theology in the United Centre for Theological Studies, and Director of the Ridd Institute for Religion and Global Policy in the Global College of University of Winnipeg. Mohinder Singh Dhillon, Founding President, BKSN FOUNDATION & C0-Chair, Advisory Council, Global College, University of Winnipeg.