{"id":28638,"date":"2014-06-19T08:27:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T13:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=28638"},"modified":"2014-06-19T08:29:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T13:29:19","slug":"faculty-of-graduate-studies-recognizes-class-of-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/06\/faculty-of-graduate-studies-recognizes-class-of-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty of Graduate Studies recognizes class of 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 431 graduate degrees &#8211; seven PhD, 424 master&#8217;s &#8211; were conferred during the recent Spring Convocation ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a privilege for me to shake hands with our graduates during Convocation week and personally congratulate them on their accomplishments,&#8221; says Mike Plyley, Dean, <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/graduate-studies\" target=\"_blank\">Faculty of Graduate Studies<\/a>.  &#8220;This Convocation marks our largest graduating class ever and I believe this serves as a measure of Brock&#8217;s growing reputation for graduate education. Beginning in the fall, our enrolment will be just shy of 1,800 and we expect to push past 2,000 before long.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The size of our graduating classes also demonstrates the commitment on the part of students, and the support they receive from supervisors, to stay on track with their studies and to complete degrees in the recommended time period.  &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During convocation, the University also acknowledged master&#8217;s and doctoral students for their academic and research excellence with the following awards:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Governor General&#8217;s Gold Medal:<\/strong><br \/>\nYin Xu, MSc in Mathematics and Statistics, overall average 95.8 per cent<br \/>\n(The medal recognizes excellence in academic studies at the graduate level and is presented to a student with the highest overall average in a graduate program.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack M. Miller Excellence in Research Award:<\/strong><br \/>\nRebecca MacPherson, PhD in Applied Health Sciences<br \/>\nMinyoung Pyo, MSc in Management<br \/>\nGillian Fournier, Master of Education<br \/>\nSnezana Ratkovic, PhD in Educational Studies<br \/>\nTessa Little, MA in Classics<br \/>\nLaurie Anne Sherry-Kirk, MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distinguished Graduate Student Award<br \/>\nSpring 2014 Convocation<\/strong><br \/>\nShannon Demain Borch, Master of Applied Disability Studies<br \/>\nRebecca MacPherson, PhD in Applied Health Sciences<br \/>\nKristin Schaven, MSc in Biological Sciences<br \/>\nCaitlin Heit, MSc in Biotechnology<br \/>\nNicolas McLeod, MSc in Chemistry<br \/>\nTamara McEachern, MA in Child and Youth Studies<br \/>\nMohammad Goodarzi, MSc in Computer Science<br \/>\nKenton Engel, MA in Critical Sociology<br \/>\nSnezana Ratkovic, PhD in Educational Studies<br \/>\nMinyoung Pyo, MSc in Management<br \/>\nYin Xu, MSc in Mathematics and Statistics<br \/>\nHugo Chesshire, MA in Political Science<br \/>\nKatherine Elizabeth Rankin, MA in Popular Culture<br \/>\nMark Hoffarth, MA in Psychology<br \/>\nMenelik Girma, MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies<br \/>\nShuoqian Gao, Master of Business Administration<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spirit of Brock awards:<\/strong><br \/>\nHayley Morrison (Applied Health Sciences)<br \/>\nShalini Dass (Education)<br \/>\nShuoqian (Athena) Gao (Goodman School of Business)<br \/>\nShaunna Hubert (Humanities)<br \/>\nKristin Schaven (Mathematics and Science)<br \/>\nAmanda Bolger (Social Sciences)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack Noble Book Prize:<\/strong><br \/>\nKaren Ann Pacheco, Master of Education<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Michael Kompf Book Prize:<\/strong><br \/>\nGillian Fournier, Master of Education<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Edds Prize in Master of Accountancy:<\/strong><br \/>\nJames Pepple, Master of Accountancy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 431 graduate degrees &#8211; seven PhD, 424 master&#8217;s &#8211; were conferred during the recent Spring Convocation ceremonies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,55],"tags":[2000,2003,607,1998,1999,2002,2004,2001,1759],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28638"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28641,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28638\/revisions\/28641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}