2012 North Coast Regional Report

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North Coast | 2012 Kelsey Trask of

Prince Rupert

Kincolith

Queen Charlotte

Graduates

Graduate

Graduate

Award Recipient

Desmond Barton

Norma Louis

Braeden Cober

BComm Accounting and Finance

BA English

UNBC Scholars Award

Port Clements

Queen Charlotte City

Award Recipient

Graduate

Jedidiah Zimmerman

Deanna Waters

Mary Fallis Scholarship

BA Anthropology

Emilie Crowley

Marla MacRae

BScN Nursing

BSW First Nations Specialization

Daniel Fish

Ranveer Minhas

BComm General Business

BScN Nursing

Kaeleen Foote

Lindsay Page

BA English

BscN Nursing

Laura Johnston

Lisa Pederson

BSW Child Welfare Specialization

BScN Nursing

Natasha Kerr

MEd Multi-Disciplinary Leadership

Nicole Kish

Kelsey Trask

Aja Lihou BA English

Desmond

Barton of

Kincolith

Natasha Kerr (L) & Kayli VanderMeer (R) of Prince Rup ert

Daniel Fish of Prince Rupert

Carey Stewart

BA General

BScN Nursing

Prince Rupert

Field School Assesses Biodiversity of Skeena Estuary

BScN Nursing

Kayli VanderMeer BComm General Business

Award Recipients Hannah Bjorndal

Ranveer Minhas

UNBC Scholars Award

UNBC In-Course Bursary

Kaeleen Foote

Rylee Postulo

UNBC In-Course Award

Raven Scholarship

Conar Harris

Luke Robin

UNBC Transfer Student Award

UNBC In-Course Scholarship

Susan Luong

Vikas Sharma

UNBC In-Course Award

UNBC Scholars Award

Pouyan Mahboubi

A class of 16 UNBC students recently helped complete the first-ever detailed assessment of biodiversity in a historically significant section of BC’s Skeena estuary. The study was conducted at the salt marshes upstream of Port Edwards near the old Cassiar Cannery (below right). “The carbon stores in BC’s estuaries may be greater than those in BC's entire portion of the boreal forest, so they have major environmental significance,” says UNBC biology professor Darwyn Coxson. The class was part of a third-year biology course offered at UNBC’s Terrace campus

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CONGRATULATIONS GRADS! 722 students graduated from UNBC this year, bringing the total number of UNBC alumni to 9,901. Convocation ceremonies took place in Prince George, Quesnel, Terrace, and Gitwinksihlkw.

Northern Doc Hardave Gill from Prince Rupert is among this year’s group of graduates from the Northern Medical Program.

UNBC Scholars Awards First-year students Braeden Cober of Queen Charlotte, and Hannah Bjorndal and Vikas Sharma of Prince Rupert have the chance to earn a UNBC degree 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.

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UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA

UNBC 2012 Highlights

From Prince Rupert to the Nass Valley

Provincial Champs Headed to the Big Leagues

Carey Stewart’s mantra, “never settle for less than your best,” has inspired him to obtain his MEd, after years as a mature student. Stewart is from the Nisga’a First Nation and one of two in his family to finish university. The accessibility of UNBC’s program offerings made that possible. Stewart is now the principal of Nisga'a Elementary Secondary School in New Aiyansh, the only secondary school in the Nass Valley, in the first independent aboriginal school district in Canada. “Many students ask what an MEd is,” shares Stewart. “I tell them it’s when you focus on an area of study you believe in. I hope to inspire them to pursue their dreams. Without UNBC, I would have struggled to achieve this goal.”

UNBC has said “good bye” to its participation in the Canadian college athletics league by winning the provincial championship in both men’s and women’s basketball. Next season, the UNBC Timberwolves will begin their first season as a member of the Canada West conference in Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS)—in both basketball and soccer.

Physical Therapy in the North A joint effort by UNBC and UBC has established a new clinical cohort allowing for 20 physical therapy students to complete the majority of their clinical placements in northern BC. The purpose is to expose more students to the region and address the shortage of local physiotherapists. The partnership will also enable all of UBC’s physical therapy students—80 in each class—to pursue more of their five-week clinical rotations in the north.

Bioenergy Birthday This spring marked the first anniversary of UNBC’s $15.8 million Bioenergy Plant, funded by the Governments of BC and Canada and featuring gasification technology from BCbased Nexterra Systems. The system has already reduced UNBC’s use of fossil fuels for heating by 89% and proven that emissions from bioenergy can be lower than natural gas. The plant serves as the primary heat source for UNBC, and also acts as a platform for education and research.

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North Coast

UNBC Courses in Prince Rupert Fall 2012 COMM 332-3 Business & Professional Ethics Video-Conference

More UNBC courses

ENSC 308-3 Northern Contaminated Environments Video-Conference

unbc.ca/programs

NORS 312-3 Lands and Environments of the Circumpolar North 2 Video-Conference

Contact UNBC in Prince Rupert

UNBC 2012

UNBCoffersacademiccoursesonline andContinuingStudiescourseslocally.

Keep in touch with UNBC facebook.com/unbc twitter.com/unbc youtube.com/unbcnews flickr.com/unbc SignupfortheUPDATEmagazinemailinglistatunbc.ca/updateandreceiveallthelatestUNBCnewsinyourmailboxtwiceayear. English grad Kaeleene Foote of Prince Rupert

This paper was produced using 17% Northern BC fibre and 83% recycled content.

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