{"id":44365,"date":"2017-04-05T14:07:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=44365"},"modified":"2017-04-06T10:41:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T14:41:49","slug":"presidents-surgite-award-winners-honoured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/04\/presidents-surgite-award-winners-honoured\/","title":{"rendered":"President\u2019s Surgite Award winners honoured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ten outstanding Brock University graduate and undergraduate students are being recognized with the 2016-17 President\u2019s Surgite Award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The annual award recognizes students who have demonstrated exemplary leadership in a student club, organization, association or team; done something exceptional that helped to advance Brock\u2019s academic reputation; made a significant contribution to student life at Brock; or provided a valuable service to Brock or the Niagara community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The winners were honoured during a reception hosted by Interim President Tom Traves on Wednesday, April 5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe have tremendous students at Brock and they all work really hard, but we know in a large community of students some go above and beyond anything that\u2019s ever expected of them,\u201d Traves said during the reception, where he spent time thanking the award winners for their contributions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He called it important for the University to recognize leadership among the student body and to show appreciation for outstanding efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s about saying, \u2018You\u2019ve really done something special. You\u2019ve contributed to the development of the University. You\u2019ve contributed to the quality of student life at the University and bettered the lives of those in the Brock and broader community,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cWe want to recognize that work and say \u2018Well done. Bravo.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The President\u2019s Surgite Award winners each received a certificate of achievement and $1,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>2016-17 President\u2019s Surgite Award winners:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christopher Paul Yendt, graduate student, Master of Education, Administration and Leadership in Education<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leona Yiu, graduate student, Master of Business Administration, Business Analytics<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ryder Damen, third year, Biological Sciences<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Caitlin Muhl, fourth year, Medical Sciences<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">James John Hall, third year, Kinesiology<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kylee Ledwez, fourth year, Medical Sciences<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Megan Elizabeth Brown, fourth year, Medical Sciences<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rachel Easterbrook, fourth year, Child Health<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shabana Jamani, third year, Medical Sciences<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joshua Black, PhD candidate, Psychology, Social\/Personality<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten outstanding Brock University graduate and undergraduate students are being recognized with the 2017 President\u2019s Surgite Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":44366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39,40,3319,188,55,41,1,4],"tags":[49,5145,15,1529,5146,761,4354,29,2898,4526],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44365"}],"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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}