BULKLEY VALLEY 2011 Sheena Se
Smithers
Houston
Hazelton
Graduates
Graduates
Graduates
Mark Diehl
Kirsten Moch
Samantha Bosworth
Steven McLean
Erica Austin
Alison Fuhr
Donald Morgan
Susan Euverman
Parminder Pal Minhas
Tracy Austin
Amanda Lacika
Allegra Tingley
BEd Education MBA
Corey Geertsma BScN Nursing
BScN Nursing
MSc Natural Resources and Environmental Studies – Biology
Wanda Nikal
BSc Psychology
MA Gender Studies BSc Biology
BScN Nursing
Diploma First Nations Language – Carrier
Jonathan Ly
Christa LaFountain
Michael Wendt
BEd Education
BEd Education
Katie Maher
Eric Miller
Lillian Wilson
Lyndsy Kalina
BSc Physics
BA Anthropology
Award Recipients UNBC In-Course Bursary
Melissa Menu
Graduate Research Award
BC Medical Services Foundation Health Sciences Bursaries, Gordon Ternowetsky Memorial Bursary
Tawnya Froese
Kirsten Moch
Alana Clason
UNBC Merit Award
Aleah Gagnon
Minerva Foundation Award
Marlina Hawes
UNBC In-Course Bursary
Haley Hoope Raven Bursary
Meghan Horlings
UNBC Scholars Award
Christa LaFountain
Marion, Lawrence and Robert deGrace Memorial Scholarship, R.R Smith Education Bursary, UNBC In-Course Bursary
Auxiliary to the PGRH Scholarship UNBC Scholars Award
Houston Scholarship, UNBC Scholars Award
Chantel Euverman Raven Bursary
Cody Meints
Darcie Powell
Four Year Guaranteed Scholarship – Tier 1 renewed
Award Recipient
UNBC Scholars Award
Randi Woodbeck
SCWIST – Michael Smith Scholarship, UNBC Scholars Award
Kelley Hilton
BComm International Business
Graduate
Dolores Alfred
Tamara Stoney BEd Education
Daniel Wong
BComm Finance
MEd Curriculum and Instruction
Sara Sebastian
Vancouver Foundation First Nations Bursary, Dr. Mary John Bursary
Robin Busby
UNBC Scholars Award
New Hazelton Graduate
Award Recipient
Breeann Doerksen
Luke Spooner
Granisle
Topley
Canfor Legacy First Nations Scholarship
Graduate
Graduate
Kelley Hilton
Cecilia Godfrey
Mary-Ann Johnson
Gloria George
BA English
BComm Accounting
William Dow Ferry Scholarship
Hayden Vandenberg
Amanda George
Marlina Hawes
Nicole Emmerton
South Hazelton
David Hoy Annual Scholarship
UNBC Scholars Award
Diploma First Nations Language – Carrier
Sheena Seymour
Jonathan Van Barneveld
Award Recipients
BC Medical Services Foundation Health Sciences Bursaries
Christopher Calhoun
UNBC Scholars Award
Graduates
Samantha Van Horn
BA International Studies and Political Science
Peter Cockriell
Stanley Brown
Andrea Vandergaag UNBC Scholars Award
Lindsy Kalina and Corey Geertsma of Smithers
Smithers
Robyn Carle
Diploma First Nations Language – Carrier MEd Multi-Disciplinary Leadership
Eric Miller of
Award Recipients
Telkwa
UNBC Scholars Award
Graduates
Diploma First Nations Language – Carrier
Steffany Dodding
BPla First Nations Planning
Hazelton
BComm Finance
Erika Tuomi
Kispiox
Brenda Michell
Nicholas West
Jade Moore
Moricetown
Diploma First Nations Language – Carrier
BComm Accounting
Award Recipients BMO Bank of Montreal Aboriginal Scholarship, Canfor Annual First Nations Scholarship, CN Gold Medal Scholarship
BSc Mathematics
BComm Finance
BSc Mathematics
Kenneth Amonson
Gavin Mitchell
Brandon Alessio
BComm General Business
BSc Computer Science
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BEd Education
BCR Group Incentive Scholarship, Mitsui Home Company Limited Scholarship
Diploma First Nations Language – Carrier
UNBC Scholars Award
CONGRATULATIONS GRADS! 818 students graduated from UNBC this year, bringing the total number of UNBC alumni to 9,179. Convocation ceremonies took place in Prince George, Quesnel, Terrace, and Gitwinksihlkw.
MSW Social Work
Lawrence Hodgson UNBC Merit Award
Leon Verhelst
UNBC Scholars Award
UNBC Scholars Awards First-year students Stephany Dodding of Houston, and Jade Moore and Meghan Horlings of Smithers all have the chance to earn a UNBC degree tuition-free after receiving UNBC Scholars awards this past year. As long as they maintain a B average, UNBC Scholars can have their tuition waived for an entire bachelor’s degree program.
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UNBC Highlights 2011
UNBC in the Bulkley Valley
Bioenergy Underway
A Rising Star
Christy Clark was only days into her job as BC Premier when she travelled to UNBC to participate in the official opening of the University’s Bioenergy Plant. The facility uses technology to turn waste wood from Lakeland Mills of Prince George into a gas that is burned to heat the campus. Early tests have demonstrated that the system can produce fewer emissions than burning natural gas. The new plant – which is expected to reduce UNBC’s fossil fuel consumption by 85% – joins a wood pellet system on campus that started operations in 2009.
Awards While UNBC did not repeat as national champion in basketball, it did capture a number of prestigious awards over the past year: • Top campus sustainability project in North America (tied with Harvard University) for bioenergy • #1 research university of the year among small universities across Canada • National Aboriginal Achievement award for professor Margo Greenwood • 3M teaching excellence award for English professor Lisa Dickson • Academic All-Canadian and BC Player of the Year for men’s basketball player Inderbir Singh Gill
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It has been quite a year for Randi Woodbeck, a UNBC student from Houston who is majoring in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Rather than enjoying some downtime at home over the summer, Randi is working hard in a lab at UNBC after being awarded the BC Cancer Agency's top studentship, which recognizes students doing cancer research. It's the first time this award has ever gone to a student from northern BC. Earlier in the year, Randi won a top award in a national student research competition appropriately called the Rising Stars of Research. Her submission outlined her work searching for the enzymes capable of destroying the genes that cause cancer. The news release about this award was one of the most popular of the year for UNBC and Randi's face was soon seen on the cover of a UNBC brochure and in a national university advertising campaign. Randi humbly credits UNBC for her success: "The smaller class sizes at UNBC provide me with a friendly, hands-on learning environment," she says. "UNBC offers more opportunities for discovery at the undergrad level than any other university."
Medical Grad Jessica Maciejko of Houston is the most recent local graduate from the Northern Medical Program. Jessica is now pursuing a residency in family practice.
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On The Cover Born and raised in Telkwa, Kelley Hilton is the youngest of five siblings and the first to get a university degree. She was also one of this year’s valedictorians at Convocation, after graduating
Keep in Touch With UNBC with a Commerce degree majoring in International Business. She has dreams of beginning her own not-for-profit and joining the United Nations to continue being an influential and positive role model.
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