Bulkley Valley | 2014
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Graduates
Award Recipient
Graduates
Award Recipients
Graduates
Sarah Deagle
Tiffany Bennett
Lindsey Brise
Lindsey Brise
Master of Education
One World Scholarship and President's Scholarship - renewed and UNBC International Study Abroad Award
Amanda Lewis
Bachelor of Health Sciences Honours
Nancy Anne Tarrant Memorial Bursary
Bachelor of Education
Michael Jordan
Arctica Cunningham
Wanda Nikal
Master of Science
S.M. Blair Family Foundation Scholarship, UNBC Leadership Award, and UNBC Scholars Award
Education Diploma
Devon Flynn Bachelor of Planning
Tarissa French
Claire Schopfer
Bachelor of Health Sciences
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Rosalie MacDonald
Leon Verhelst Bachelor of Science
Bachelor of Education
Duncan McClenagan UNBC Scholars Award
Kispiox
Claire Schopfer
Graduate
UNBC In-Course Scholarship
Kristina Witwer
Devon Flynn of Hazelton
Toby Lake of Smithers
Chantel Euverman of Houston
Rosalie MacDonald of Hazelton
Amanda Lewis of Moricetown
Alexander Stoney Bachelor of Education
Leon Verhelst
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Robynn Hofsink of Smithers
L.A. Lefebvre and Associates Scholarship and UNBC Scholars Award - renewed
Alexander Stoney of Kispiox
Houston Graduates
Award Recipients
Cynthia Cockle
Leeza Eggers
Rural Nursing Certificate
R.T. Wilson Rural and Remote Nursing Clinical Practicum Bursary
Graduates
Award Recipients
Jared De Smet
Brittany Barendregt
Haley Hooper
Kelly Ewald
Bachelor of Arts
UNBC Scholars Award
Nigel Futcher
Ashley Brinnen
Frank Oberle Scholarship, Gerald Kirschke Memorial Bursary, and John and Eileen Bryan and Family Bursary
PAPTAC Western Branch Bursary and UNBC In-Course Bursary
Seth Jex
Patience Cox Master of Education and Graduate Certificate
Leeza Eggers
UNBC Scholars Award
Jasmine Parhar
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
UNBC Scholars Award
Chantel Euverman
Elizabeth Saretsky
Bachelor of Science
Houston Scholarship
Kevin Kirkby Bachelor of Commerce
Burke McKone Bachelor of Science
Tamara Richardson Master of Science
Daniel Smith Bachelor of Commerce
New Hazelton Graduates Luke Blabey
Smithers
Bachelor of Science
Paddy Hirshfield
Shelley Browne Hawrelak
Robynn Hofsink
UNBC Doctoral Tuition Scholarship
Raven Scholarship
Alana Clason
Alastair McLellan
UNBC Doctoral Tuition Scholarship
UNBC Scholars Award - renewed
Owen Ehalt
John Norman
UNBC In-Course Award
UNBC In-Course Award
Maryssa Grayer
Natasha Steenhof
Raven Bursary
UNBC Scholars Award
Nathan Hartnett
Bryan Storie
Raven Bursary
President's Scholarship - renewed
Bachelor of Science
Joshua Haskins
Kim Tran
Pearce Roulston
Father Thomas General Assembly 1321 Bursary
UNBC Leadership Award
Meghan Kort Bachelor of Arts
Toby Lake Master of Education
Theodore Mlynowski Master of Science
Brett Roulston
Master of Education
Congratulations
GRADS!
Taylor Koldyk
820 students graduated from UNBC this year, bringing the total number of UNBC alumni to 11,167. Convocation ceremonies took place in Prince George, Quesnel, Terrace, and Gitwinksihlkw. Tyler West of Smithers
Meghan Kort of Smithers
Bachelor of Commerce
Tyler West Bachelor of Education
UNBC Scholars Awards
Bachelor of Arts
Orlando Wiebe
Orlando Wiebe of New Hazelton
UNBC Faculty and Staff Bursary
Master of Business Administration
Bachelor of Commerce
Kristina Witwer of Hazelton
Francois Lake Award Recipient Jerinina Tracey UNBC In-Course Award and UNBC In-Course Bursary
South Hazelton Award Recipient Alec Busby UNBC Scholars Award - renewed
First-year students Arctica Cunningham of Telkwa, left, and Natasha Steenhof of Smithers, have the chance to earn a UNBC degree tuition-free after receiving UNBC Scholars awards this past year. UNBC Scholars can have their tuition waived for an entire bachelor’s degree program, provided they maintain a B average.
2014
UNBC 2013/2014 Year in Review From faculty and student research awards to athletic and cultural milestones, it has been another busy and successful year at UNBC.
Bulkley Valley
• UNBC’s Bioenergy Plant received Platinum certification in Leadership in Energy, and Environmental Design from the Canada Green Building Council. It became the first university building in the province and only the fourth in the country to garner the prestigious sustainability designation. • In September, Lheidli T’enneh elders launched a traditional cottonwood dugout canoe in the Nechako River for the first time in about 60 years. The canoe was built by students as part of a First Nations Studies course at UNBC. • UNBC student Mireille Rizkalla received a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship worth $50,000 a year for up to three years to continue her study of diseases associated with aging, such as Alzheimer’s and dementia. • UNBC tied for third with the University of Lethbridge in the Maclean’s rankings of primarily undergraduate universities. Strong marks in the student awards, student/ faculty ratio, and research funding categories helped boost UNBC’s score. • UNBC professors Brian Menounos and Natalia Loukacheva were named Canada Research Chairs. Dr. Menounos researches glacier change, while Dr. Loukacheva’s work focuses on Aboriginal governance and law. • UNBC’s basketball and soccer teams moved from probationary to full members in the Canada West conference of Canadian Interuniversity Sport.
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Peytra Davies and Mallory Quinn, both of Smithers, and Geordie Linford of Hazelton were among the 33 graduates of the Northern Medical Program Class of 2014. This year marks the seventh group of doctors to complete their training through the program and Northern Medical Program Regional Associate Dean and Vice-Provost Medicine at UNBC Dr. Paul Winwood said there are signs that having a program in the north is helping to meet the needs for physicians in rural areas in BC and across Canada.
“We know from the results of national exams, feedback from the physicians across the country and the practice outcomes of our graduates that we are producing well trained, highly competent, committed and, rounded physicians who are successfully practising in all fields of medicine,” Winwood said.
2015
More than two thirds of this year’s graduating students will be going into family practice residency.
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Dr. Peytra Eichstadter Davies and Dr. Mallory Quinn of Smithers, and Dr. Geordie Linford of Hazelton
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