NORTH COAST 2010 Prince Rupert
Queen Charlotte City
Graduates Anthony Adams BSW Social Work
Sheri Lynne Bishop MSW Social Work
Michalle Burnett BScN Nursing
Juliana Chong
MA International Studies – Global Environmental Policy
Emma Christison BScN Nursing
Hannah Coons
BComm Human Resources Management
Jared Davis
BComm Finance
Tina Demings
Diploma in First Nations Language and Culture
Nathan Lauer
Master of Business Administration
Brenda Leighton
BComm General Business
Debbie McKay
Diploma in First Nations Language and Culture
Donna McNeil-Clark
Award Recipients Eileen Nelson
Diploma in First Nations Language and Culture
Warren Nicholls
Alaura Bruce
Patrick Carlson
Kristi Nicholson
Andrea Fish
BScN Nursing
Micah Pyde
BSc Integrated
Nicole Rimmer
BA Political Science
Pouyan Mahboubi
Leigh Murphy
Pacific Century Graduate UNBC Transfer Student Award Scholarship – renewed Rotary Clubs of BC Bursary – renewed
Kaeleen Foote
UNBC Transfer Student Award
Brandon Haldane
Warren Nicholls
UNBC Scholars Program
Stephanie Offutt
UNBC Scholars Program
Ian Robinson
Alison Sampson
Diploma in First Nations Language and Culture
UNBC Transfer Student Award BMO Bank of Montreal Aboriginal Scholarship, Four Samantha Rosario Year Guaranteed Scholarship UNBC Scholars Program – Tier 2
Virgie Silab
Randeep Janjua
UNBC In-Course Bursary
President’s Scholarship – renewed
Benjamin Spencer Sr.
Susan Luong
Joshua Van der Meer
BScN Nursing Diploma in First Nations Language and Culture
Percy Temple
Diploma in First Nations Language and Culture
Patricia Thompson
Diploma in First Nations Language and Culture
Bernadette Trimble
Diploma in First Nations Language and Culture
Shayna Scott
Dana Myshrall BScN Nursing
Hannah Coons and Jared Davis of
Prince Rupert
BSc Chemistry
Joseph Lavoie BComm Finance
Award Recipients Alan Moore
UNBC Scholars Program
Jessica Reid
UNBC Scholars Program
Port Clements Graduate
Award Recipient
Alan Lore
Jedidiah Zimmerman
BSc Psychology
UNBC Scholars Program
Masset Graduate
Chapter B – P.E.O. Sisterhood Workplace-Family Wellness Bursary Bursary
Thomas Cheney
Stewart
Tlell
Award Recipients
Graduate
Darbi Brand
Pamela Richardson
UNBC Scholars Program
Stacey Shantz
BA Environmental Studies
BA Anthropology
Tina Demings of Prince Rupert
Jedidiah Zi
Jesse Corbel
mmerman
CONGRATULATIONS GRADS! 832 students graduated from UNBC this year, bringing the total number of UNBC alumni to 8350. Convocation ceremonies took place in Prince George, Quesnel, Grande Prairie, Terrace, Gitwinksihlkw, and Prince Rupert.
UNBC Scholars Program
Diploma in First Nations Language and Culture
Port Edward
Emma Christison of Prince Rupert
Graduates
Canadian Institute of Forestry UNBC Doctoral Tuition Bursary, UNBC Scholars Scholarship Program
BSc Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Prince Rupert campus graduates
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Award Recipient Nikki-Lee Page Raven Scholarship
UNBC Scholars First-year students Stephanie Offutt and Samantha Rosario of Prince Rupert, Darbi Brand of Stewart, and Jedidiah Zimmerman of Port Clements, can all earn UNBC degrees tuitionfree 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.
Stephanie O
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Samantha Rosario Darbi Brand
Patricia Thompson
of Prince Rupert
Benjamin Spencer Sr. of Prince Rupert
Donna McNeil-Clar
k of Prince Rupert
Joseph Lavoie
of Queen Charlot
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UNBC on the North Coast
UNBC Highlights 2010
Aboriginal Health Research
National Champions The UNBC men's basketball team scored UNBC's first national championship this year after going 17-1 during the regular season and capturing the provincial title as well. UNBC produced BC players of the year for both men's and women's basketball, a pair of academic allCanadians, a coach of the year award, and the country's top individual honour – All-Canadian Across All Sports – won by Inderbir Singh Gill.
UNBC grad student Jessie King has been awarded a scholarship from the National Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research to study identity issues related to the inheritance of First Nations status. King is Tsimshian and hails from Prince Rupert.
New Chancellor
A Shrinking Footprint
A native of Prince Rupert who went on to establish one of Canada’s most successful technology companies is UNBC’s fifth Chancellor. John MacDonald co-founded MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates in 1969 and led the company until his retirement in the late 1990s. He is now the CEO of a BC-based solar company and is a champion of BC’s potential leadership in renewable energy. The Chancellor is the ceremonial head of the University and officially grants degrees at Convocation. Dr. MacDonald is the second person from Prince Rupert to be a UNBC Chancellor; the first was Iona Campagnolo.
UNBC Facts • 4,332 students in academic programs. • 2,003 students in Continuing Studies courses. • 927 scholarships and bursaries worth $2 million.
www.unbc.ca/about • 832 students graduated in 2010, bringing the total number of UNBC alumni to nearly 8,350. • More than half of UNBC alumni live and work in northern BC.
Contact UNBC in Prince Rupert 353 5th Street Prince Rupert, BC V8J 3L6 Phone: 250-624-2862 Toll-Free: 1-888-554-6554 Email: nw-info@unbc.ca
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UNBC is actively implementing a $15 million bioenergy program at the Prince George campus that could give the core buildings the smallest carbon footprint of any Canadian university by this time next year. The projects – a biomass gasification system and a wood pellet system – will reduce UNBC's dependence on fossil fuels by 85% and serve as a platform for applied research and education.
Anniversaries and Awards This June, UNBC is celebrating two anniversaries: the 10th anniversary of the health care rally in Prince George that led to the establishment of the Northern Medical Program and the 20th anniversary of the creation of UNBC by the Government of BC. Margo Greenwood Both serve to underline how far UNBC has come in a relatively short period of time. In fact, for the fifth straight year, UNBC has been named by Maclean’s as the best small university in western Canada (and #3 nationwide). Meanwhile, Math professor Jennifer Hyndman won a national award for excellence in teaching and Margo Greenwood was named Academic of the Year for her groundbreaking report for UNICEF on Aboriginal health and child poverty in Canada. MBA graduate, Nathan Lauer of Prince Rupert