NIPISSING UNIVERSITY

convocation 2021

NIPISSING UNIVERSITY COAT OF ARMS
There are three elements in the Nipissing crest: the sun, the water, and the owl.
The sun, our source of light and energy, is symbolic of the illumination of learning, embracing curiosity
and reason.
The water recalls the University’s connection with Lake Nipissing, source of the institution’s name (and
reason for the University’s team name, “Lakers”), and bond with the Nipissing First Nation, original
inhabitants of the region. Like the sun, water sustains life itself, and represents the abundant gifts of
nature with which humans must live in harmony.
The Athenian owl symbolizes wisdom and scholarship, knowledge and culture. By facing forward, it
represents seeing the world as it is and envisioning how it could be, which is the task and purpose of
the University.

NIPISSING UNIVERSIT Y

C O N V O C AT I O N 2021

FACULTY of ARTS and SCIENCE
FACULTY of EDUCATION and PROFESSIONAL STUDIES

NIPISSING UNIVERSITY WELCOMES YOU
The History of Nipissing University

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ipissing University is a young and dynamic institution whose strategic focus on student success and
experience has translated into consistent top rankings in the country in the areas of student support,
student experience, faculty, and residences.
The University received its charter as an independent university in 1992, and was created to specifically
address the needs of Northern Ontario. Nipissing’s strategic priorities regarding the student experience as well
as academic and research excellence is grounded in this commitment. Over the course of the past 29 years,
Nipissing has conferred roughly 33,000 degrees and positively impacted millions of lives.
Nipissing’s roots, however, extend much deeper, stretching back more than a century to 1909 and the opening
of the North Bay Normal School, the precursor to Nipissing’s highly respected Schulich School of Education.
As a result of the vision and perseverance of local citizens to establish a university in North Bay, Northeastern
University was formed in 1960 and later renamed Nipissing University College in 1967 as an affiliate of
Laurentian University.
Nipissing is proud to be a primarily undergraduate university with a reputation for excellence in teacher
education, arts, science, professional programs and with four distinct nursing programs, it is proportionally the
most nursing intensive university in Ontario.
As a premier destination for students seeking innovative academic programming in a student-centered comm­
unity, Nipissing is renowned for its ability to provide a personalized education in a supportive environment with
dedicated faculty who are creating new knowledge through research that positively impacts our communities,
locally and globally. Students find themselves in a high-quality academic environment that is student-focused
and based on personal teaching practices and innovative approaches to learning.
Nipissing University is home to a burgeoning research culture that provides undergraduate students the
opportunity to perform graduate-level research. Students and graduates consistently give top marks to the
university in high-profile surveys that measure student satisfaction, such as the National Survey of Student
Engagement.
Recognizing the value of supporting an international profile for our students, Nipissing holds exchange
agreements with institutions around the world, actively recruits international students and provides funding for
refugee students. As well, the Schulich School of Education operates a unique international teaching program
which provides the opportunity for students to teach abroad.
Access and equity have been a longstanding priority of Nipissing with a focus on students who, without
interventions and support, might not otherwise participate in postsecondary education. For example, Nipissing
has experienced continued growth in the enrollment of full-time first generation students as well as increases in
the number of students with disabilities and number of full-time Indigenous students enrolled at the University.
Nipissing is committed to making an impact and playing a positive role in the educational, social, cultural and
economic life in the communities it serves.

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NIPISSING UNIVERSITY WELCOMES YOU
A History of Teacher Education in North Bay

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he roots of the Schulich School of Education reach back more than 100 years, to the opening of the North
Bay Normal School in 1909. The Normal School was renamed North Bay Teachers’ College in 1953. In
1972, the College moved into a new home at The Education Centre, which was specifically designed for the
integration of Nipissing University College and the Teachers’ College. In 2010, Nipissing’s Faculty of Education
became the Schulich School of Education, thanks to a generous gift from Mr. Seymour Schulich.
The Schulich School of Education is renowned for graduating leaders. The school is recognized for pioneering
the innovative use of technology in the classroom to enhance learning. It was the first education program
in Ontario to implement laptops into the classroom and is actively researching the effectiveness of new and
emerging technologies, like the iPad, smartphones and social media, in both a traditional classroom setting and
as tools for distance education.
The latest milestone in the continuing evolution of the Schulich School of Education occurred in 2012 with
the launch of Nipissing University’s first PhD program in Education with a focus on Educational Sustainability.
The focuses of the Schulich School of Education are on critical thinking, humane values and practical skills
that are necessary to become a lifelong learner. The aim is to take learning beyond schools and direct students
to apply their knowledge actively in the larger world.

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HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENT
Nipissing University confers honorary degrees upon individuals who meet one or more of the following criteria:
national stature, relevance/contribution to Nipissing University, academic background, contributions to
society (regionally, provincially, nationally, internationally) and/or sustained contribution to scholarship. The
university grants the following honorary degrees: Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) and Doctor of Education
(honoris causa).

TOM CURRY
Tom Curry is a leading trial and appellate lawyer and Managing Partner of
Lenczner Slaght LLP, Canada’s leading litigation firm.
Tom was born and raised in North Bay. He graduated from Chippewa
Secondary School in 1977 and afterwards obtained a degree from the
University of Waterloo, School of Urban and Regional Planning.
He then attended Osgoode Hall Law School and was called to the Ontario Bar
as a lawyer in 1986.
Tom served for two terms on the Board of Governors of Nipissing University
and played an important role as a Member of the Special Governance
Commission formed in 2015 under a Memorandum of Agreement between
the Nipissing University Faculty Association and Nipissing University.
In 2016, the Special Governance Commission reported on recommendations to assess and improve the joint
governance structures and culture of collegiality at Nipissing.
The work of the Special Governance Commission lead to significant improvements in the quality of the
relationships and engagement between the Board, Academic Senate, administration, students, and the wider
community at Nipissing.
Tom’s work as a lawyer has been recognized in various professional honours including the prestigious Law
Society Medal, The Catzman Award, and The Advocates Society Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Tom is a passionate teacher and mentor who strives to inspire future generations of lawyers and students. He has
supported future graduates at Nipissing University, The University of Waterloo and Osgoode Hall Law School
through the creation of bursaries and awards intended to help students in financial need.

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THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S ACADEMIC MEDALS
The Governor General’s Medal, established in 1873, is one of the most prestigious awards that can be
received by a student in a Canadian educational institution for exceptional academic achievement.
The Gold Medal is awarded to the graduate student who achieves the highest academic standing upon
graduation from a graduate level.
Jennifer Galle, MEd
The Silver Medal is awarded to the undergraduate student who achieves the highest academic standing
upon graduation from a bachelor degree program.
Emerson Bach, BA (Hons)

PRESIDENT’S GOLD MEDALS
The President’s Gold Medals are presented to a graduating student who attains the highest academic
average in their degree program. Students must have a minimum of 80% overall average. Each recipient
will receive a President’s Gold Medal and a cash award of $500.
Emerson Bach, BSc
Jasmine Brioux, BFA
Rachael Carpentier, BA
Christian Celebre, BComm
Allison Chi, BEd
Christopher Donaldson, MES
Jennifer Galle, MEd
Claire Hutton, BScN
Emma Kewley, BComm
Emily McGuffin, BA
Tegan McWhirter, MESc
Garrett Nelson, BSc
Benjamin Olmstead, MA
Shawn Page, BBA
Mackenzie Peters, BPHE
Susan Picard, PHD
Alanna Shwed, MSc
Jordan Tremblay, BSW

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presentation of the chancellor’s award
for excellence in research
The Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research was established to recognize and celebrate the value and
importance of research conducted by Nipissing University faculty. Research that faculty and their students
undertake plays a significant role in the growth of Nipissing University and the education of its students.
Dr. Katrina Srigley is this year’s recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research.

Dr. Katrina Srigley
Dr. Katrina Srigley received her PhD in history from the University of Toronto in 2005. She joined the History
Department at Nipissing that year. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010 and Full Professor in 2019.
She also holds a BEd from the University of Toronto.
Dr. Srigley trained as an historian of women’s, gender, and feminist oral history with a focus on the histories of
modern Canada. Since arriving on Nbisiing Nishnaabeg territory, Dr. Srigley’s research has developed through
her work in partnership with Nbisiing Nishnaabeg. She shares this award with and says gchi-miigwech to
Glenna Beaucage (Culture & Heritage Manager, Nipissing First Nation), John Sawyer, Muriel Sawyer, Lorraine
Whiteduck Liberty, Peter Beaucage, Patty Chabbert, June Commanda, Marianna Couchie, Erin Dokis, Terry
Dokis, Carol Guppy, John Long, Evelyn McLeod, Joan McLeod Shabogesic, Laurie Robinson, Randy Sawyer,
Lorraine Sutherland, Autumn Varley, and many other generous elders, knowledge holders, language stewards,
and community members who have supported her learning journey over the last 16 years.
Dr. Srigley is co-editor with Stacey Zembrzycki and Franca Iacovetta of the award-winning collection Beyond
Women’s Words: Feminisms and the Practices of Oral History in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge,
2018), and author of the award-winning monograph Breadwinning Daughters: Young Working Women in a
Depression-era City (University of Toronto Press, 2010). She is co-editor of two special journal issues and the
author or co-author of eleven peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, four of which were co-authored with
former graduate students. She directed and co- produced a short documentary in English and Nishnaabemwin
(nipissingu.ca/warriors), which explores the history of the Nipissing Warriors hockey team. Over ten years, she
has been awarded more than $2 million in research funding as a principal or co-applicant.
Dr. Srigley has several active research projects. Her Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada (SSHRC)-funded projects, developed in partnership with Nipissing First Nation, examine the history
of Nbisiing Nishinaabeg territory through Nishinaabeg ways of knowing, recording, and sharing the past.
Dr. Srigley is currently co-authoring a book with Glenna Beaucage titled Gaa Bi Kidwaad Maa Nbisiing/
The Stories of Nbisiing Nishnaabeg and she works closely on research projects with university colleagues and
community partners, through the Lake Nipissing Beading Project (lakenipissingbeadingproject.com), a Heritage
Canada-funded project on Nbisiing Nishnaabeg guides, and the Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of
Aboriginal Arts & Cultures (grasac.org).

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presentation of the chancellor’s award
for excellence in service
The Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Service was established to recognize the importance of exceptional
service of faculty who play a significant role in the education of Nipissing University students. Dr. Susan Srigley is
this year’s recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Service.

Dr. Susan Srigley
Dr. Susan Srigley is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Religions and Cultures at Nipissing University.
She has a PhD and MA in Religious Studies from McMaster University and a BA (Honours) from McGill
University. Dr. Srigley has been teaching at Nipissing since 2005.
Dr. Srigley’s research focuses on ethics, imagination, and literature. She has published two books and several
articles on the American novelist Flannery O’Connor; has been invited to give talks in Europe and the US; has
organized three international Flannery O’Connor conferences; and has served on the editorial board for Studies
in the Catholic Imagination since 2018.
Dr. Srigley has chaired her department for 10 of her 15 years at Nipissing. She has served on Senate, the Board
of Governors, Tenure and Promotion committees, University Review Appeals Committee, the Joint Committee
of the Board and Senate on Governance, the undergraduate curriculum committee, and Academic and Quality
Assurance Planning Comittee. She was the grievance officer for the Nipissing University Faculty Association
for several years before becoming the Vice-President and President from 2013-2017. She is a founding member
of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Association ad hoc committee on governance and has
been a passionate advocate of academic freedom at the national level, serving on the Canadian Association of
University Teachers’ Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee.
Dr. Srigley has been a palliative care volunteer for the past 20 years. Currently she is a volunteer with the Near
North Palliative Care Network, where she mentors new volunteers and leads the volunteer training on death,
dying and spirituality. She offers companionship to the dying and respite for their caregivers, and she is training
to be a death doula to deepen her skills in palliative and hospice care. She established a local “Death Café” for
her community to gather and discuss ideas and questions about death and dying. She teaches courses on death
awareness in her department and has presented workshops internationally on death positive education in the
post-secondary sector. Dr. Srigley’s students have done placements at the Near North Palliative Care Network,
and they are granted “death ambassador” status after taking her death courses as they change the conversation
around death in our culture. She runs an Instagram account dedicated to her death ambassador students and
death education. For many years she has volunteered at the local pet rescue and she and her partner rescue
elderly dogs who need good, loving homes for their final years.

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presentation of the chancellor’s award
for excellence in teaching (fasbu)
The Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching was established to recognize the importance of
exceptional teaching of faculty who play a significant role in the education of Nipissing University students.
Dr. Renée Valiquette is this year’s recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (FASBU).

Dr. Renée Valiquette
Dr. Renée Valiquette has been teaching at Nipissing University since 2005 in the departments of Gender Equality
and Social Justice and Child and Family Studies. After completing an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and
Women’s Studies at Nipissing University, Dr. Valiquette went on to attain a Master’s degree in Philosophy at
York University, where she also received her PhD in Social and Political Thought in 2018.
Contributing to the expansion of the environmental humanities, Dr. Valiquette’s research uses post-structuralist
ideas to rethink and reinvent human and non-human relations. In her dissertation, Renée draws on the work of
French feminist scholar Hélène Cixous to describe the Anthropocene – the geologic epoch of humans – as an
“age of otherness,” that is, a time defined by strangeness, incoherence and reckoning. Such an approach opposes
unilateral solutions that have no time for different, particularly marginalized, ways of thinking when “saving
the planet.” Viewing environmental realities through the lens of otherness means stepping back, embracing
doubt and uncertainty, and recognizing other ways of living and relating as essential to achieving a just and
vibrant future.
Dr. Valiquette carries these ideas into her teaching in Child and Family Studies and Gender Equality and Social
Justice and her interest in families as our first classroom. In her classes, Renée asks: how can 21st century family
life be reimagined to better support democratic communities capable of responding usefully and ethically to
social and environmental injustice?
Dr. Valiquette’s research is perhaps most lively in her commitment to the transformative potential of the university
classroom. In 2013, she and Nipissing Professor Dr. Sal Renshaw piloted an experimental interdisciplinary course
organized around the theme “DIRT.” The course, officially titled “Introduction to Interdisciplinary Analysis,”
has been offered every year since, each time under a different theme. In each iteration, 12 guest lecturers
are invited to creatively address the selected theme from their own disciplinary, and often multi-disciplinary,
perspective. Guest lectures alternate with seminars run by Renée and Sal. In seminar, students learn how to be
curious and acquire knowledge outside their disciplinary preferences, how to make “group work” useful and
enjoyable, and how to think critically and imaginatively across epistemic difference. And most importantly,
students who take the course acquire an even deeper appreciation for Nipissing’s brilliant professors. The 10th
version of the course, wishfully themed “DREAMS,” will run in the 2021-22 academic year.
Since 2015, Dr. Valiquette has been working to expand her research on experimental interdisciplinarity through
partnerships at universities in Sweden and Norway. Along with faculty at Linköping University, Renée helped
found the Network for Teaching and Learning Differently. Dr. Valiquette and Dr. Renshaw hope to resume plans
to offer a condensed interdisciplinary course to Linköping students and faculty under the theme “NOIR” in the
Spring of 2022. Work is also underway on the establishment of a Northern-Nordic Network for Experimental
Interdisciplinary Learning to help broaden such offerings.

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presentation of the chancellor’s award
for excellence in teaching (casbu)
The Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (CASBU) was established to recognize the importance of
exceptional teaching of contract academic faculty members who play a significant role in the education of
Nipissing University students. Laura Killam is this year’s recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in
Teaching (CASBU).

Laura Killam
Laura Killam is an innovative nurse educator who is committed to “empowering students to learn their own
way.” She uses creativity and technology to engage diverse learners in active and authentic learning opportunities.
Laura strives to be an educator who students feel connected to and comfortable with – inclusive, flexible,
available, approachable, supportive, empathetic, honest, trustworthy, and fair.
At Nipissing University, Laura teaches part-time in the RPN to BScN Blended Learning Program. Students
have appreciated Laura’s use of live sessions, choices for how they engage in and represent their learning, as
well as supportive reminders that learning happens when students go outside of their comfort zone (but not
too far). Laura has created opportunities and assisted students to experiment with creative uses of: PowerPoint,
game creation, H5P technology, media (including memes), video creation, and more in the online classroom.
Students particularly value the way Laura personalizes and humanizes learning through regular video feedback
on assignments and instruction. Laura is committed to ongoing improvement of her teaching practice and
service. She has been instrumental in helping distance students collaborate and achieve recognition within
student government and program decision making.
Laura also started the NurseKillam YouTube channel in 2010. This resource has since helped countless students
understand complex topics in a variety of disciplines. With over 5 million views, she receives thanks from
students across the world. Her expertise in videography in a variety of teaching contexts continues to evolve.
She provides an example and inspiration to nurse educator colleagues for her use of technology in teaching and
learning. You can find her tweeting from @NurseKillam and blogging from insights.nursekillam.com about
improving inclusive education.
She is currently focusing her PhD studies at Queen’s University on the use of Virtual Online Simulation in
nursing education and advocating for educators to adopt practices consistent with Critical Caring Pedagogy
and Universal Design for Learning. She is working with Dr. Marian Luctkar-Flude and the Canadian Alliance
of Nurse Educators using Simulation (CAN-Sim) research interest group to improve her use of simulation and
engagement in impactful research.
In her free time, Laura loves to spend time creating videos, camping and working on do-it-yourself projects with
her husband and four children. Being outside helps her feel refreshed.

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CONVOCATION
FACULTY of ARTS and SCIENCE
Master of Arts (MA)
Master of Environment Studies (MES)
Master of Science (MSc)
Bachelor of Arts Four Year Program (BA)
Bachelor of Arts Three Year Program (BA)
Bachelor of Liberal Arts (BLA)
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Bachelor of Science Four Year Program (BSc)
Bachelor of Science Three Year Program (BSc)

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FACULTY of ARTS and SCIENCE CONVOCATION

MASTER OF ARTS
Ty BackerC - Rebuilding Trust: The Algonquin Regiment At War, July-September 1944.
Taylor Gabrielle CoatesC - Bruce John Stewart Macdonald: Just The Man For The Job.
Ryrie Johanna DirksenC - “Between A Rock And A Hard Place”: The Mennonite Selbstschutz In Molotschna,
Ukraine, 1918-1920.
Rebecca DubeauC - Rioting And Reporting: Representations Of Race In The Chicago Tribune And The Chicago
Defender.
Samantha Bailey GauthierR - Parental Alienation In Divorced Families: Extending The Legal Literature.
Marly HillR - Death In The Digital Age: Exploring Virtual Forms Of Grieving Within Networked Community
Spaces.
Benjamin OlmsteadT - Characteristics Of Persons With Serious Mental Disorders Who Have Repeat Contact With
Police Officers.
Andrew OuelletteR - Max Weber’s Continued Relevance Into The 21st Century: Western Humanism.
Jonathan Wade PlauntC - Historiography Of Modes Of Preventing Parenthood In England During The Late
Middle Ages.
Tatianna WebbC - Establishing Guilt And Innocence: Gender And Respectability In The 1935 Murder Of Ruth
Taylor.

MASTER OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Christopher DonaldsonT - Environmental Citizenship: Attitudes And Action In Postsecondary Education.
Mary KellyT - Land As Story: The Embodied Place Of A Hunter and Trapper.
Tegan McWhirterT - Analyzing Stable Oxygen Isotopes In Charred Bark To Reconstruct Past Wildland Fire
Conditions.
Jane Emily WhiteT - Total Phosphorus Loading And Surrogate Relationships In A Mixed Land Use Boreal Shield
Watershed.

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MASTER OF SCIENCE

Dustin HummelC - Testing The Testimony: Examining Memory Of Relevant Cues Following A Time Delay.
John JohnsonC - Correlates Of Mouthguard And Throat Protector Utilization In Junior ‘A’ Hockey Players In
Northern Ontario.
Aaron PaibomsaiC - Understanding Food Skills in Indigenous Post-Secondary Students.
Victoria PrimeauC - Dimension And Universal Maps.
Gabrielle RacineC - Median Nerve Deformation And Displacement Increase In Concert During Grip Tasks In The
Transverse Plane Of The Carpal Tunnel.
Alanna ShwedC - Is Sport No Longer Enough? The Impact Of Food Rewards On Children’s Motivation To
Participate In Sport.
Timothy SibbaldT - Tilings And Packings Of Pentagons.
Rachel Amy Van WoezikC - Real Versus Ideal: Toward A Deeper Understanding Of How Coaches Gain
Knowledge.

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BACHELOR OF ARTS FOUR YEAR PROGRAM
Ajoké Amis 
Devon Andrews-Simons∆
Emma Patricia Cora Anstey
Lindsay Ballard
Emily Banika*
Karley Marie Baran
Sarah Anne Bazzana
Alyssa Beach
Michelle Berger*
Kourtnei Marie Bickerstaffe
Ashley Breedon*◊
Hillary Amanda Brennan*
Emma Jaclyn Brown
Jessica Dawn Bullock*
Rachael Carpentier*
Emma Carr*
Victoria Chamberlain*
Tyrell Chambers
Liv Charette
Taylor-Brooke Chase Charrois
Erica Cheechoo
Leah Danielle Chin*
Emily Chouinard*
Taylor Lee Chute
Camryn Clost*
Connor Cobean
Alyssa Coghill*
Chaim Conklin
Emily Costa*
Danielle Coulas
Brent Crane
Erin Creed*
Autumn Crockett◊
Alexander Croxall
Lea Cruickshank

Natalie Cuddy *
Kaelyn Mackenzie Reeves Daniels
Emily Dawson*
Emma Yvonne DeBoer
Emma Dehaan*
Taylor Desormeau*
Tanner Dibben-James
Maria Nicole Dikeos
Deven Doodnath
Dylan-Lee Ducharme
Emily Dulong*
Sarah Eileen Ederer*
Brye Enright*
Rebecca Lee Ernest*
Rebecca Ferris*
Ashley Forster*
Taylor Margaret Lori Fortin
Charlotte Foster*
Liam Francis
Tierra Helene Christina French
Devon Gauthier
Samara Gauthier
Olivia Gemmiti*
Marissa Gillies-Linklater
Calvin Gomes
Paige Goode-Brown
Cory Gordon
Kristina Graham
Kevin Grant*
Leah Groenewoud*
Brendan James Hall
Casie Hall*
Danielle Nicole Taylor Hall
Rosemarie Hartman*
Dakota Heon*

Eric Hlady
Danielle Holmes
Austin Horvat-Trushinski
Julia Humphries*
Shannon Hunt
Olivia Ivic*
Alexandra Caitlin Joyce*
Alison Kasaboski
Frances Kay *
Mackenzie Kelly
Victoria Keyes
Kelsey Kirouac
Kaitlyn Marion Elizabeth Krcel
Nadia Lackowicz
Sarah Laframboise
Liisa Lalonde*
Brittany Lansi
Madison Charlotte Larochelle
Shayla Le Coz
Brooke Clarissa Leferink
Brianna Leigh*◊
Madison Louise Logan* ◊
Chelsie Longstreet
Hunter Lounds*
Eamon Robert Stuart MacDougall*
Sarah MacGregor*
Tianna Maciver
Jennifer Rose Martin*
Natalie Martinez*
Jennifer McCarthy
Alexandra McClure*
Megan McCourt
William McDonald
Haley McGaraughty
Scott McInnis

* High Distinction
Certificate in Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA)-Lifespan

Certificate in Early Intensive Behaviour Intervention (EIBI)-Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

Certificate in Environmental Management

Certificate in Health Studies and Gerontology
◊
Certificate in Geomatics
∆
Certificate in the Study of State Violence (War, Atrocity, and Genocide)


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BACHELOR OF ARTS FOUR YEAR PROGRAM
Rayanne Michelle Roberge*
Madilynne Roblot*
Bailey Rongits
Kassidy Joy Ruigrok*
Haille Alexandra Sadler
Joseph Samra
Shelby Sawyer
Bryan Scheffelmair*
Alexis Schuett
Nicole Seeley *
Abigail Sewell*
Rachel Shavrnoch*
Malachy Sheedy
Victoria Slywka
Hannah Marie Smithson
Sarah Souch
Brittany Spina
Alexandria Alyssa Strom
Tayler Sullivan
Nickalus Sylver
Aleksander Robert Szaranski*
William MacGregor Tannahill
Jade Tanner*
Olivia Gwendowlynn Taylor
Jordan Topham*
Shaelyn Tyers*

Larissa McKelvie
Brittnay Meunier-Gauthier*
Shanel Sarah Miles*
Mackenzie Minor
Connor Montgomery *
Amanda Moorhouse*
Marie Murrell* ◊
Natalie Muylaert*
Arthur Tadao Nakamura
Taylor Okum
Deverick Ottereyes-Rupert
Claire Oulahen*
Victoria Parker
Megann Parks
Connor Payton*
Maxwell Peacock*
Gryphon Phillips
Melanie Phillips
Olivia Regina Pitcher*
Gwyneth Powling
Sarah Qadir
Mikayla Rao
Sarah-Beth Raymond Lusk*
Amy Rebel
Erin Elizabeth Reid*
Junelle Erica Alice Reuben

Dante Ursini∆
Olivia Valenti
Allison Van Troost*
Jocelyn Vandriel
Carden Vickers
Amanda Sophia Wagner*
Lindsay Walker
Cassidy Leigh Webb*
Nicole Shannon Weckwerth
Britney Weir
Miranda Wilby*
Alexander Winter*
Megan Winter
Cassandra Wood
Marissa Young
Sara Zepeda
Angelina Haiyue Zhu
Kaley Pauline Zizek

* High Distinction
Certificate in Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA)-Lifespan

Certificate in Early Intensive Behaviour Intervention (EIBI)-Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

Certificate in Environmental Management

Certificate in Health Studies and Gerontology
◊
Certificate in Geomatics
∆
Certificate in the Study of State Violence (War, Atrocity, and Genocide)


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BACHELOR OF ARTS THREE YEAR PROGRAM
Rachael Heal
Mariah Holmes
Joseph Johnston
Brittany Klassen
Emma Lamothe
Myriam Latraverse
Brianna Lavereau
Katrena Ledoux
Mason Lee
Emily McGuffin*
Matthias Peter McNulty

Lea Anne Call
Aidan Carleton
Sarah Chakasim
Jaurdyn Clement
Cameron Jeffrey Cole
Gregory George Cole
Bianca D’Amore
Alex Elstone
Nevin Emmanuel
Jacob Farrer
Jade Groom-Pike

William Normand McQuaid
Maxwell Mordue
Brianna Perrett
Bridgette Perron
Joseph Adrien Piquette
Celine Rochefort
Christopher Adam Slobodzian
Jessica Soule
Stevie Sutherland
Tiffany Sutherland
Presley Young

BACHELOR OF LIBERAL ARTS PROGRAM
Siobhan Baswick
Ashley Blow
Amelia Ferracuti

Brittanie Gillian
Danielle Marleau-Pilon

Kimberly Perry
Andrew Pritchard

BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS PROGRAM
Alysa Marie Ball
Jasmine Brioux*
Hannah Burke
Jadan Cohen
Diana Valentina Ene
Madison Goodfellow-Deveau

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Madison Hackner*
Davanya Hartwig*
Shay-Lee Keenan-Lowerison
Sydney Keown
Holly Macie
Gerold Mueller Jr

Miranda Kimberly Ann Prior
Kendra Rhynard
Jessica Shepperdson*
Monica Showell*
Zoe Van Den Hurk*

* High Distinction
Certificate in Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA)-Lifespan

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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE FOUR YEAR PROGRAM
Elizabeth J. Aarts*
Megan Ablett
Vanika Aggarwal*§
Naila Aqbal
Brenda Sky Avery
Emerson Bach*ù
Daina Barriage
Aubrey Bates‡
Edward Bentley *
Harlee Boissonneault
Daniel Brundia*
Janessa Buis*‡
John Caissey
Christian Celebre*
Alysha Conklin*
Micaela Cooper*‡
Amy Czaikowski§
Brittany Denomme*
Tate W. J. Drynan*
Meredith Jaye Weslyn Fisher*
Kyesha Fong*
Cindy Gadoury *‡

Gillian Gobbo
Neil Graham
Melissa Gregoire*
Hongrui Guo*
Richard Hamilton
Patrick Hébert‡
Charlotte Holenski‡
Maggie C. Holod
Jerret Johns*‡
Erin Kirkby
Jessica A. Kokol*
Lakshita Konwar Prasai*§
Alyssa Laferriere
Ashley Elizabeth Lamers*
Samantha Lavallee*§
Emma Marie Little*
Douglas Addison Noel Manners*‡
David Louis McDonald*‡
Dawson Meecham*‡
Hunter Mosher‡
Jonathan Ramazani Mulimbi
Jamie Leonora Nelson*

Daniel Ouellette 
Adam Perron
Connor James Peters
Hannah Kathleen Pilkington
Megan Pulford*
Adelle Renette
Erin Taylor Richards Whidden‡
Kathryn Russ
Nea Saunders
Jennifer Helen Anne Scott*
Kassidy Seldon*
Alec Shaw
Jessica Sheldon*
Kayden Jace Phillips Sim*◊‡
Sophia Slater*
Katherine Joanne Talbot*‡
Katherine Tripp*‡◊
Christina Turcotte
Mehgan Uetz*
Julia Vanderwiel*
Owen R. Watkins

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE THREE YEAR PROGRAM
Natasha Brouillette
Carly Elizabeth Therese Byers
Matthew Fournier

Justine Ruby Leveque*
Kristen Moore
Garrett Nelson*

Shauna-Lynn Tyre
Andrew Vierich

*High Distinction
Certificate in Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA)-Lifespan
ùCertificate of Bilingualism
‡
Certificate in Forest Resource Management and Conservation

Certificate in Environmental Management

Certificate in Game Design and Development
◊
Certificate in Geomatics
§
Certificate in Neuroscience


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CONVOCATION
FACULTY of EDUCATION and PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
Doctor of Philosophy in Education (PhD)
Master of Education (MEd)
Indigenous Teacher Certification Program (ITCP)
Indigenous Classroom Assistant Diploma Program (ICADP)
Teacher of Indigenous Language as a Second Language (TILSL)
Bachelor of Education (Concurrent Program) (BEd)
Bachelor of Education (Consecutive Program) (BEd)
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN)
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)
Post-Baccalaureate Diploma in Business Administration
Post-Baccalaureate Diploma in Human Resource Management
Bachelor of Commerce Four Year Program (BComm)
Bachelor of Commerce Three Year Program (BComm)
Bachelor of Social Work (BSW)
Bachelor of Physical and Health Education (BPHE)
Bachelor of Arts – Criminal Justice (BA)

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FACULTY of EDUCATION and PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
SCHULICH SCHOOL of EDUCATION CONVOCATION

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN EDUCATION
Dany DiasC – “Les Vraies Couleurs Du Monde”:
Adolescent Learners’ Worldviews Explored Through
Multicultural Literature.

Susan PicardC – Re-Envisioning Spaces Striving
For Inclusion Through The Theory Of Positive
Disintegration.

Sarah Ann HunterC – Conceptualizing And Planning
For Post-Secondary Student Success: Meeting
The Needs Of College Learners In A First-Year
Experience Course.

Erin Elizabeth TruswellC – Examining Teacher
Attitudes Toward Victims Of Child Maltreatment.

MASTER OF EDUCATION
Cameryn BeaudryC

Crystal Dawn McDonaldC

Kaitlin Marie BrunettiC

Douglas O’BrienC

Jessica Laurie Pointet ColafranceschiC
Stephanie CorteseC

Triana OrtizT – Effects Of Testosterone On Feedback
Schedules And Learning Of A Spatial Motor Task.

Sarah V. FerranteC

Miranda PittmanC

Jennifer GalleT – Science in the French Immersion
Elementary Classroom: Teacher Comfort,
Self-Efficacy, and Anxiety.

Lauren Grace RabakC

Bradley P. JacobsR – Students With Chronic Illness,
And Accommodations For Academic Success.
Dawn KellyC

Kevin VerberkT – Perspectives And Practices Of
Divisionally-Employed Behaviour Consultants In
Alberta: A Mixed Methods Study.

Kristen KoistinenC

Stephanie VigierC

Marret ScottR – Beyond Turning The Pages: A Journey
Through Literacy.

Shannon LaForme-CsordasC

C
R

Course Route
Research Paper
T
Thesis
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INDIGENOUS TEACHERS EDUCATION PROGRAM
Marie Culhane
Carolyn Doxtator
Seneka King

Joy Raven
Megan Skead

Whitney Sandberg
Shelda Tom

INDIGENOUS CLASSROOM ASSISTANT DIPLOMA PROGRAM
Julie Ellen Barkman
Cheyanne Brandon
Khrystyn Bruce
Janell Carpenter

Chelsea Goodwin
Zipporah Goodwin
Trina Reuben
Georgette Rose

Alicia Thivierge
Tara Wesley
Eva Whiskeyjack
Sara-Lynn Wynne

TEACHER OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
Karen Mosko

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BACHELOR OF EDUCATION (CONCURRENT EDUCATION)

Primary/Junior Division
Jasmine Brioux
Rachael Carpentier
Emily Chouinard
Taylor Lee Chute
Erin Creed
Autumn Crockett
Lea Cruickshank
Emma Yvonne DeBoer
Emma Katherine Dehaan
Rebecca Ferris
Ashley Forster

Katherine Louise Gibson
Alison Kasaboski
Nadia Lackowicz
Sarah Laframboise
Ashley Elizabeth Lamers
Brittany Lansi
Emma Marie Little
Sarah MacGregor
Haley McGaraughty
Amanda Moorhouse
Gwyneth Powling

Gillian Mackenzie Quinn
Kendra Rhynard
Haley Rothwell
Haille Alexandra Sadler
Alexis Schuett
Abigail Sewell
Rachel Shavrnoch
Victoria Slywka
William MacGregor Tannahill

Junior/Intermediate Division
Kourtnei Marie Bickerstaffe
Hannah Burke
Leah Danielle Chin
Danielle Coulas
Diana Valentina Ene
Maggie C. Holod
Olivia Ivic

Tori Lynn Johnstone
Frances Kay
Shay-Lee Keenan-Lowerison
Sydney Keown
Kayla Leusink
Megan Elizabeth McCourt
Marie Murrell

Arthur Tadao Nakamura
Olivia Regina Pitcher
Sarah Qadir
Amy Rebel
Allison Van Troost

Intermediate/Senior Division
Parker Anderson
Jordan Anthony Bernier
Ashley Breedon
Connor Cobean
Alyssa Coghill
Brent Crane
Jack William Deacon
Maria Nicole Dikeos
Samara Gauthier
Madison Goodfellow-Deveau
Cory Gordon

Kristina Graham
Leah Groenewoud
Eric Hlady
Jerret Johns
Robert Conrad Johnson
Alisha Laciak
Liisa Lalonde
Madison Larochelle
Tianna Maciver
Sydney Anne Neilson
Jessica Nicole Nolevski



Alexandra Roberts
Nicole Seeley
Kassidy Seldon
Tristen Stinkowji
Georgia Stone
Katherine Joanne Talbot
Brandi Trinh
Cassandra Wood
Hallie Brooke York
Nathan Zak
Sara Zepeda

Certificate of Bilingualism

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BACHELOR OF EDUCATION (CONSECUTIVE EDUCATION)
Primary/Junior Division
Matthew Adams
Soraya Aghbali
MacKenzie Allen
Jillian Anderson Dann
Carleigh Bailey
Lauren Elizabeth Bailey
Scott Ballon
Diana Jessica Barat
Eric Barton
Courtney Battiston
Alexandra Berlingieri
Christine Marilyn Bermingham
Caroline Marika Patricia Boland
Emily Bonas
Miranda Rachel Boone
Carolina Brenner
Rachel Amanda Boss
Shianne Star Brackenbury
Christopher Brady
Raquel Erika Branch
Miranda Rose Caruso
Alana Mae Case
Kaitlin Case
Miranda Victoria Cassano
Kirsten Cave
Abby Cecchi
Allison Chi
Maria Francesca Chilelli
Emma Kathryn Cholasta
Victoria Chondon
Andrew Ross Coupland
Holly Crawford
Catherine S. Cross
Marie Culhane

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Carley Alexandra Cumming
Mark Currie
Lauren Damini
Emily David
Alexander De Ciantis
Hope Dekeyser
Zoe Derkach
Jessica Doersam
Vivien Duong
Nicole Marlo Dykstra
Stephanie Fawcett
Caitlin Fellows
Kylie Fellows
Jodi Ferguson
Nicole Finnis
Spencer Patrick Fleming
Heidi Furtner
Nathan Gregory Garrett
Jessica Giesbrecht
Sarah Gilboe
Rachel Gobbo
Lauren Goodridge
Natalie Graham
Megan Yvonne Graziani
Kimberly Hansen
Amanda Josephine Hardisty
Jessica Nicole Jaclyn Harrod
Elyse Hermack
Davide Herter
Casey Lynn Holmes
Erin Houston-Lemaitre
Carling Hunt
Nicole Jackson
Clare Johnston

Nicholas Julian
Brendan Kane
Alexandra Antonia Katsouleas
Kristopher Kazanowski
Victoria Rose King
Jordan Kustec
Makayla Kuyten-Thomas
Ashley Lapierre
Brittany Alexandra Leadbeater
Anton Jun Leung
Svetlana Leurdo
Danielle Tsurumi Levy
Emma Livingston
Sandy Ly
Carlee Brenna MacCulloch
Sarah Ann Major
Katherine Elizabeth Malcolm
Mackenzie Lynn Malcolm
Kelayna Martin
Evelyn Fern Delafield Mauch
Connor McDougall
Maura McGrath
Tracy McLaren
Rachel Gabrielle McLay
Alicia McNamara
Courteney Alexandra Paul Menard
Laura Elizabeth Minster
Isabelle Montgomery
Nicole Moser
Briana Murray
Robin Neal
Jesse Nelson
Emilie Noel
Simonetta Pallotta

BACHELOR OF EDUCATION (CONSECUTIVE EDUCATION) (continued)
Primary/Junior Division (continued)
Celina Parada
Lindsay Patrick
Kiercin Pavao
Marc Penny
Brittany Pestrak
Lauren Adele Phillips-Grande
Kailie Pittman
Cameron Portenier
Thomas Posie
Matthew Preece
Devon Prout
Erika Pursiainen
Shannon Queen
Daryl Pili Quilao
Joy Raven
Kristina Richer
Taylor Renee Roncali
Giasmine Samaniego
Emma Marie Scantland
Sarah Ellen Sherman

Catarina Simoes
Gagandeep Kaur Singh
Allison Smith
Jennifer R. Smith
Kristen Theadora Smolak
Carolyn Soanes
Choumi Srikumar
Sarah Starrett
Jaimee Stewart
Nicolas Straughan
Bradley Sutton
Luba Hania Sydoryshyn
Clayton Takacs
Kate McQueen Taylor
Melissa Taylor
Andrew Tee
Mackenzie Tetz
Tessa Thomson
Michaela Tokar
William Tsilkas

Michael Walker
Katie Walker-Byron
Jessica Marie Williamson
Natasha Wong
Jessica Woolvett
Hailey Wuytenburg
Natalie Patricia Yakubowski
Colleen Lai Ying Yu
Michael Zentai
Christopher Zhuang
Katherine Zurowski

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BACHELOR OF EDUCATION (CONSECUTIVE EDUCATION) (continued)
Junior/Intermediate Division
Amanda Allen
Catherine Anne Almeida
Haley M. Andersen
Karen Applegate
Michael Andrew Aquan-Assee
Andrew Armstrong
Angelia Athanasakos
Andrija Bago
Nicholas Basile
Justine Bongers
Erica Jane Brescacin
Brett Leo Francis Brulotte
Zachary Camirand
Rhys Alexander Carlton
Breanne Charles
Dina Chaves
Bailey Chuang
Alexandra Cober
Matthew Cote
Olivia D’Agostino
Marisa Da Re
Kelly Davidson
Mathew Degabriele
Farnaz Delgosha
Siobhan Dzuirban
Maxwell Paul Eaton
Olivia Le-Chan Toepell Epelbaum
Trina Etmanskie
Spencer Frost
Shauna Gagnier

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Elisa Galloro
Hanna Iris Garbig
Christopher William Haines
Griffin Hale
Michael James Haley
Rachel Hornick
Daniel Edmund-Harry Hutchings
Courtney Johnson
Holly Jones
Kathleen Jorgensen
Brittany Kahane
Si Un Kang
Kayla Mavis Keough
Gursheen Khurana
Kathleen Kilbane
Claire Nicole Larson
Natasha MacDonald
Regina Martinez Palacios
Jillian Mary-Helen Massad
Kayla McAdam
Daniel McArthur
Bridget McClevarty
Carli McDonald
Ashley McLaren
Sean Mekli
Patricia Miller
Kazimir Milne
Sara Morrison
Cassandra Negrette
Emilia Nowicki

Solange Marcela Ogaz-Gallardo
Leonardo Oriano
Jansen Ortepi
Carlo Emanuele Pedulla
Sara Penner
Tanner Poole
Matthew Porter
Breanne Ramsay
Jenna Susanne Ramsay
Mike Reid
Melissa Richardson
Nicholas Rivais
Olivia Robinson
Dhaval Rughani
Gagandeep Samra
Marni Sandell
Logan Saunders
Nicholas Scarfone
Ksenia Smith
Gwendolyn Sodenkamp
Marcus Lucien Spinotti
Evan Stacey
Emily Swica
Jacqueline Tien
Trevor Henry Matthew Tokola
Jordan Trudeau
Matthew Vaughan
Sarah Williston
Vanessa Nicole Zoccoli

BACHELOR OF EDUCATION (CONSECUTIVE EDUCATION) (continued)
Intermediate/Senior Division
Christian Altobelli
Alicia Caoleann Arnds
Megan Ballantyne
A Jackson Beam
Sonya Bergin
Megan Berlet
Camellia Bissessar
Spencer Bollman
Jeffrey Boorman
Samual Boston
Brittany Boyd
Erika Brennan
Collin Brisson
Jennifer Burggraaff
Jeffrey Casey
Allanah Katrina Brianne Cerilli
Jayme Lyn Chapman
Courtney Conlon
Racheal Cowey
Jessica Joan Cuabu
Diane Kelsey Davies
Nathaniel Robert Joseph Dedecker
Kathleen Mary Desson
John Doney
Stephanie Fleming
Andrew Foisy
Kyleigh Gault
Matthew James Gerrish
Sheldon Gomes

Jason Kenneth Greenwood
Allie Hardy
Alethea Henderson
Ethan Hodges
Selena Michelle Huband
Alexandra Lyndsey Irwin
Elena Jankova
Amanda Jarvis
Joshua Davey Jewell
Matthew Jones
Jessica Keegan
Trevor Kirk
Ashlee D Lawrence
Ryan Liinamaa
Bing Wei Liu
Cameron Louie
Elizabeth MacDonald
William MacKinlay
Lale Mackus
Brendan David Masters
Caitlin McManus
Jessica McManus
Sara Minichiello
Prachi Mohile
Titus James More
Francis Nguyen
Curtis Nighswander
William Joseph O’Neill
Turner Onion

Ryan Orfao
Andrew Blaine Osmond
Patricia Patterson
Nicole Eve Perrault
Katelyn Pittman
Heather Lynn Prince
Kyle Quinlan
Kristen Amady Riquelme
Brody Rodgers
Samuel Rooney
James Alexander Huston Ross
Sandali Pamoda Rupasinghe
Leanna Genevieve Cecile Sammon
Halley San Cartier
Eric Seyler
Cory Snider
Jenna Soares
Jordan Steenge
Ali Windy Steer
Samuel Stragapede
Montana Tait
Amanda Thériault
Nathaniel Triantafillou
Rosario Tucci
Kelci Villumsen
Erin Wilson
Nathaniel Zwinkels

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FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES CONVOCATION

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING PROGRAM

Sabina Akther*
Holly Al*
Bhakti Amin
Anna Angelidis
Mathura Arulalagan
Miranda Asah
Samantha Austin-Edsall
Abdul Gemeel Aziz*
Sandeep Bal*
Kerry Balonjan
Brianne Barcham
Kendall Barry*
Matthew Bartlett*
Alicia Katie Bartol
Mélanie Beaulieu*
Shelby Hannah Grace Bebee
Patricia Beggs
Courtney Behnke
Melissa Belair*
Katelyn Bell*
Jagjeet Bhatoa
Preet Kaur Bhatti-Randhawa
Victoria Elizabeth Bidal
Averi Bodnar
Danah Bozek*
Jaskarandeep Kaur Brar
Analise Bridge
Emma Brockett-Wilde*
Cameron Brodie*
Taylor Brown
Sarah Brunet
Melissa Bryen
Alexandria Buckley

Jessica Buncick
Erica Burns*
Leah Butler*
Jessie Butler*
Jolene Campbell
Jonalyne Candelaria
Christian Dominic Climaco Carretero
Lauren Carriere
Rachel Caskie
John Paul Cassanto*
Rocio Centeno
Taranpreet Kaur Chamdal
Jacob Charette*
Pablo Chaves
Michael Cheng
Taylor Chester
Christopher Chisamore
Christopher Chow
Alliyyah Samirah Church
Audrey Simone Clarke
Sarah Clement*
Jennifer Cobus
Julia Cole*
Alisha Collee
Sara Collins
Melissa Connors
Marlese Coombs
Lyndsay Couture
Christina Critelli
Luciana Patricia Dabit*
Cherisee DaCosta
Cameron Daniels
E. Pauline Daugherty

* High Distinction
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Marie-France Dazé
Daniella DeBartolo
Amy DeGuire
Zachary Leland Paulamaki Desjardins
Jennifer Dhawan
Olivia Concetta Di Carlo
Samantha Diebert*
Nicole Danielle Dodge*
Michaela Rose Dominik
Jennifer Donnelly
Taylor Douglas*
Trisha Duguay*
Gurkamal Kaur Dulku
Jessica Kristen Elo
Cleona Esdaile
Meghan Evans
Madison Farnsworth*
Taylor Erin Fegyverneki*
Danielle Florio
Edward Anthony Foard
Beatrice Fockens*
Darcey Fownes*
Lacey Fownes
Karina Frost
Jasmine Gaffoor
Naomi Garcia*
Andrew Gardner
Sarah Gauthier
Stefanie Genereaux
Shannon Gervais
Kimia Gharibi
Melissa Weber-Gibson
Michelle Giurgiu

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING PROGRAM (continued)

Mirela Gligor*
Alyssa Gonin
Katelyn Goodwill*
Jasmin Gregory
Jugsir Grewal
Elaina Guergis
Emily Hale
Molly Raye Hansen
Terilyn Lindsay Harber
Lacey Ann Harrison*
William Haun*
Sarah Rosa Hawkins*
Stefani Hickmott
Esther Hong*
Chelsea How*
Cassandra Howie
Yakira Anika Netanya Hume
Claire Hutton*
Kaitlyn Rose Hyde
Wardah Irfan
Stefanie B. Irish*
Melanie Isabelle
Kimberley Jacksic*
Yashwinderpal S. Janagal
Hayley Jim
Angela Johnson*
Isabel Johnston*
Ashlyn Kadlecik*
Laurie-Ann Kaldma
Melissa Kaleta
Eleni Maria Kapetanios
Afreen Kazi
Karyn Kelly
Juliette Keussi Tchouade
Da-Young Kim
Jennifer Kobs
Ruth Kpiebewieng
Jessica Krizmanic
Ashley Lafleur*

Madelene Latulippe
Jesse Lavoie-Owen
Shannon LeBreux*
Min Kyung Lee
Sheena Lemieux
Emily Lento
Marilyn Lenus
Lisa Lesniak
Megan Lisk*
Sarah Little
Kelly Livingston
Grace Lott*
Teodora Boros
Karina MacIntyre
Hazel Dy Magno
Sarah Magnusson
McKenzie Dyan Maltas
Bradley Scott Manuel*
Sarah Martin*
Kirandip Kaur Marwaha
Brooke Maschi
Claire Maslak
Alexandrea May
Melania Jonas Mbabaye
Juliann McCollum-Lippert
Michelle McCombe
Natasha Mae McCulloch
Leah McDermid
Gabrielle McDonald*
Kalyna McIntosh
Tracy McKay
Scarlett McKean
Abby Elizabeth Mckenzie*
Kylie McKibbon
Erinn Mclaughlin
Sarah McLeod-Greig*
Julie Ann Mercer*
Paola Carla Ortiz-Meyer*
Paige Michel*

Alison Milde
Alexia Miller
Connor T. Monk
Shalan Brianna MooreP
Sandra Moore
Victoria Morgan
Delage Mowle*
Taylor Megan Murphy
Tanya Murray
Izuba Musafiri
Evelyn Mweene-Kazevu*
Julie Nagler*
Amanda Nelson
Brenna Nephin*
Erica Newby
Allison Norg
Dani Nurnberg
Rutendo Nyambiya*
Ju Young Ok
Bethany Oldfield
Rachael Oliver
Dana Oliver
Oladapo Olowoyeye
Jose Ricardo Jr. Navera Padilla
Kelee J. Paget
Olivia Pate
Vidhi Patel
Jessica Patten*
Marie-Eve Paul
Bruce Peachey
Kavita Persaud
Daniela Pettella*
Katerina Polihronidis
Stephanie Mariah Portugues*
Vanessa Pretty
Joshua Prior
Melanie Pugong
Zoe Purdy*
Oluwatosin Rabiu

* High Distinction
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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING PROGRAM (continued)

Elizabeth Radey
Keirsten Raines-Cars
Jennifer Ramirez Melara
Delaney Sarah Randle
Käte Ranger*
Sammi Ricci-Bonzey*
Jessica Rickard
Corina Rider
Erika Robert
Riley Roy
Jenelle Russell
Marianne Sanderson
Harjot Sandhu
Erika Rose Saquing
Stephanie Schmidt
Samantha Schoch
Selena Sciuk
Rebecca Scott
Suzanne Sedore
Nicole Anna Serwatka*
Benjamin Shakespeare*
Yun Shen
Samantha Shepherd
Sang Woon (Roy) Shin
Colton Smith*
Becky Smith
Brittany Smith
Eva Victoria Smith

Mackenzie Alexandra LeBelle
Martha Solaque
Mary Kate St. George
Alexander Stafford
Jessica Yang Ying Chiang Stafford*
Nicole Marie Ste-Croix*
Lindsay Stencell*
Cassandra Stewart
Dana Strachan*
Raisa Sultana
Carlos Tamayo
Sarah Frances Taylor
Nirupama Thapa
Dissneya Theiventhirarajah
Melissa Thibault
Savanah Thibeault
Calvin Thomson
Paige Thorburn
Tiffany Timmers
Erika Esther Toth
Elizabeth Truong
Tayler Turnbull
Heather Janet Turner*
Leonchia Cristin Turpin
Donna Tuulos*
Nenita Ulep
Laura Umpleby
Annika Vanderhorst*

* High Distinction

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Erin Vassbotn*
Faith Yvonne Viel*
Laura Wagnell
Alicia Karlene Wagner
Brooke Walker*
Katelyn Wall
Melissa Walpole
Christine Watkins
Kyra Webb*
Jenifer Webster
Maggie Wells*
Annie Wemigwans*
Nadine Westenhoefer
Kaitlyn Westlake
Carly White
Kimberly Wiebe*
Emma Wilson
Abby Wroe*
Hong (Helena) Han
Sonam Yangchen*
Gregory Zalewski
Leslie Zavitz
Corrina Zawalski
Annie Znotinas

BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM

Bojan Alimpic
Breanne Anderson
Shawna Armstrong*
Mathew Arseneau-Lafontaine°
Samuel Aubut*
Corey Baldwin-Teal
Katherine Bar*°
Tiana Bedford*
Lauren Savannah Benevides
Jordan Anthony Bernier
Alicia Blackman
Alexander Blouin
Jordan Boehk*
Riley Breault*‡ °
Tyler Brown*
Rhegan Bush*
Jarod Aaron Cadotte °
Fiona Rosemary Cassels
Cassandra Cavasin
Daniel F. Charnock*
Joshua Chedore
James Clendenning
Christopher Coughlin
Adel Hassan Dahnoun*
Donovan Anthony Doherty  °
Colby Duguay*
Erin Eady
Stephanie Flaro
Katrina Geurkink
Simon E. Giasson*

Carolyn Glasby*°
Keely Goldberg°
Kayla Victoria Gorman°
Shady Harb
Christian Briggs
Hye In Hong
Lydia Ironside-Fischer*
Jennifer Justice*¨
Lara Kane**°
Baljit Kang
Avneet Kaur*
Mykayla King°
Victoria Catharine Kinzel
Kevin Lacroix
Kyle Brandon Lamoureux
Randy Lampkie
Stephanie Lauzon*
Anna Liidemann*
Drake Lindsay
Marissa Little
Amanda Little
Aaron Duncan Lougheed
Kayla Lucier
Hannah Catherine Mackie°
Mariann Martin°
Steven Matton
Brandy Mauro
William John McIntosh*
Carter McLean
Kyle McLean*

John Clifford McParland*
Tyler David Merjo
Kaitlyn Miron°
Benjamin Mitchell
Kyle Neville
Bryanna Jackson-Ominika
Shawn Michael Page*  ¨
Danika Parry
Bhavik Rajnikant Patel
John Robert Petrullo°
Sarah Pigeau
Miguel Plante*
Tyler Poitras*
Kaitlyn Olive Pritchard*
Aditya Rai
Aswanth Ravindran
Mathieu Roberge
Ibrahim Brian Robertson
Ryan Samuelson
Dadafo Seid
Giovanni Alexander Serebro*
Kaivan Shimi
Shaylea Stevenson ‡ °
Sara Tahir*
Charles E. Trudel
Kady Veley
Jessica Mackenzie Wells*°
Askhat Zharas

* High Distinction
° Certificate in Human Resources Management
§
Certificate in Financial Services
 Entrepreneurial Finance Certificate
‡ Financial Product Sales Professional Certificate
¨ iLEAD Business Experience Certificate

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POST-BACCALAUREATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Aamil Mohammed Ferhath

Soumya Unnikrishnan

POST-BACCALAUREATE DIPLOMA IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Akhil George

Gurpreet Kaur

BACHELOR OF COMMERCE FOUR YEAR PROGRAM

Natasha Khan Abbasi
Dhia Al-Amidi
Stephen Alexander Aleinik
Samantha Bell
Allen Bluhm
Connor Bomhower§
David Cacciavillani*
Emma Chadwick
Ishneet Chawla
Stone Clarke
Page Coupe*
Nathan Crankshaw
Danielle Christina Crilley
Asma Fedlu Dano
Cyril Deeb*
Bianca Dias*
Kelliann Drury
Brendan Raymond Farrell
Salah Fatah
Brendan Fehr

Albert Gabidov
Stefanie Gauthier
Maria George*
Jacob Graham
Alexander Hanna*
Savannah Harris
Sanober Javeed Hassanali
Simone Henzil°
Syed Azib Husain*
Marion Kaahwa
Nagib Kadamani
Emma Kewley*
Kelsey Kiers
Lyndsay L’Abbe-Leidecker*
Miriam Grace Lacson
Eric Laliberte
Huan Liu
Sarah Deanna Luberti
Sahar Mackawi*
Jessica MacKenzie

Emilee Marentette
Nicholas Marro
Malcolm Sharif
Archana Movva*
Kailey Rebecca Mulder*
Holly Nicholson°
Kaitlyn Lindsay Perkins
Hollie Elizabeth Phelps*
Matthew Quaile
Bri-anna Margaret Ramsden
Michael Sadaka
Adam Saylor§°
Darren Stargratt
Johnathon Szaefer
Houman Tajvanchi
Yunus Emre Uran*
Jianing Wang
Mitchell Gerald Ernest Wheeler*
Douglas Wood*
Janine Young

* High Distinction
° Certificate in Human Resources Management
§
Certificate in Financial Services
 Entrepreneurial Finance Certificate
‡ Financial Product Sales Professional Certificate
¨ iLEAD Business Experience Certificate
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BACHELOR OF COMMERCE THREE YEAR PROGRAM
James Amelotte
Sheridan Anderson
Eric Belanger
Eve-Emmanuelle Bray
Adam Brunner
Kelly Brush
Lea Anne Call
Christian Celebre*
Chanel Chowdhury°
Claudia Cole
Jasmine Cowan
Douglas Cuzner
Renee Deelstra
Zachary Demers
Alexandra Digaspari
Nicholas Thomas Doyle
Ryan Duncan
Kevin Dunford
Ahmed Elbadri°
Courtney Elizabeth Eves
Kylie Fader
Eric W. Fast P

Caroline M. Filion*
Alexandre Gaulin
Brett Hargrave
Mathieu Huneault
Jenna Huot
Berica Ishimwe
Qusai Jaradat
Brett Jeffries°
Ryan Kappler
Ruchika Khanna*°
Robert Labrie
Ashley Lachapelle
Samantha Lavallee*
Reid Lawton*
Chelsea Liedtke
Jonathan Rong-Hsuan Lin
Alexander John Rolf Lunan
Stephanie Lyn Madden*
Patrick Louis Mahaffy
Suzanne Martel
Veronica Maset
Dawn Maxwell

Kaylee Mulcahey
Moureen Nambafu
Belena Dianand
Lucas Alexander Pharoah
Stephanie Catherine Philbin
Jordan Andrew Phillips
Ibrahem Qalib
Ameila Roach
Nicole Louise Ross
Nicholas Salazar
Sarah Anne Marie Schingh
Shane Smith
Michael Snook
Benjamin P. Spoelstra°
Bradley Sutton
Emilie Sylvain-Lindsay
Thoshan Thirunavukkarasu
Pavle Trajkovski
Katie Trupp°
Dylan Wale

* High Distinction
Posthumous Degree
° Certificate in Human Resources Management
P

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BACHELOR OF SOCIAL WORK PROGRAM
Gabrielle Eloise Merkley Brunet*
Bridget Carlson
Devin De Groote
Sharon Desormeau*
Chris Gerus*
Patricia Ellen Haydon
Caitlyn Hermack
Michelle Huot

Julia Jackson*
Jasmine Joanisse
Baleigh Anne Theresa King
Melany Lisa-Maria Kuipers*
Chantal Lavoie*
Meghan Francoise MacLeod*
Shannon Danielle Norris*
Alexander Orr

Sara Ouellette*
Julia Phannenhour
Marie-Ève Rancourt*
Kaitlyn Stewart
Olivia Todd¨
Jordan Tremblay*
Caitlyn Rose Vidal

BACHELOR OF PHYSICAL AND HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAM
Parker Anderson*
Quintin Ashitei*
Shandon Ashitei*
Jessica Axiak
Morgan Batten*
Deanna Bernardi
Devon Blackadder
Jamal Brown
Samantha Budd*
Kayla Burke
Kara Castiglione*
Hayden Joseph Comeau
Jack William Deacon
Kaitlyn Dejong*
Lindsay Desroches
Breanna Di Paolo
Emily Drake*
Kieran Forde
Lindsay Fulton*
Katherine Louise Gibson*
Kaila Granholm
Abbigail Groskleg
Stephen Hass*
David Alexandre Hotte
Kiara Caitlyn Jefferies*

Robert Conrad Johnson*
Tori Lynn Johnstone*
Elana Marie Klingspohn*
Alisha Camillia Laciak
Gage Lafreniere
Avery Lee*
Braden Leedham
Andrew Legge*
Kayla Leusink*
Taylor MacTavish
Kelsie Mahussier
Devyn Martel
Alexander B. Maycock*
Emma McArthur*
Mikaela Moore
Jessica Moran*
Alexander Anthony Mosher
Madison Leigh Murphy
Jeremie Murray
Sydney Anne Neilson
Jacey Nelligan
Jessica Nicole Nolevski*
Owen O’Leary
Mackenzie Peters*
Abigail Pleau*

* High Distinction
¨ iLEAD Business Experience Certificate

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Emily Price
Alexandra Roberts*
Haley Rothwell
Logan Keenan Rye*
Claudia Schlosser*
Megan Schonberger
Achuthan Shanmugaratnam*
Riley D Sloan
Tristen Stinkowji*
Georgia Stone
Christopher Sweeney*
Jordan Thompson
Madison Tranter*
Brandi Trinh*
Stephanie Tutton*
Taylor Walker*
Kaitlin Watson
Carly White
Jake Wright*
Hallie York*
Nathan Zak
Chloe Zummach*

BACHELOR OF ARTS – CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROGRAM
Danika Rose Bailey*
Reed Garrett Blacker*
Trevor Paul Boissonneault
Lucas Brown
Ryan Carnevale
Kirsten Trinity Cartwright
Thomas Mitchell Charbonneau
Jordan Clausi
Kylie Cranston
Calvin Cressman*
Meghan Culin
Jared D’Angelo*
Adrienne Demers*
Jetta Lynn Derenoski*
Mark Daniel Bondad Garin
Zachary Garner
Charlotte Gaudreau*
Jordann Marie Gauvreau*

Jessica Gerry*
Brooke Gilliam
Jonathan Goderre
Mackenzie Graham
Brady Hardwick
Derek Hewitt
Cole Hoffman
Jeremy Hookimaw
Andrew Robert Johnstone*
Jordan Kilby*
Kayleigh Lalonde
Emma Lavery
Brianne Levasseur*
Tyler Loney
Megan Lott*
Braedon Loucks
Kenndal Marsden
Madison Sarah McDiarmid

Braydon Mcenroe
Zachary Mclennan
Kurtis Palfrey
Christina Pavone*
Emily Claire Pelletier*
Sabrina Maria Pereira
Gillian Mackenzie Quinn
Claudia Reinbrecht*
Joshua Robson
Corey Roebuck
Kyle Morgan Conway Runge
Robert Daniel Selmayer
Emilia Spina
Abbygale Stencill
Reagan Linda Turcotte
Amanda-Faith Valliere

* High Distinction

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J.W. TRUSLER PROFICIENCY AWARDS IN
ARTS and SCIENCE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
The Trusler Award are presented to a graduating undergraduate student, either part-time or full-time, in each
major. The recipients are chosen by the respective faculty of each major, primarily on the basis of academic
achievement. Students must have earned a minimum of 60 credits at Nipissing University and have a
minimum overall average of 80%. Students with a double major are only eligible to receive one J.W. Trusler
Award. Each student will receive a Bronze Medal and a cash award of $300.
Biology – Melissa Gregoire
Computer Science – Hongrui Guo
Child and Family Studies – Claire Oulahen
Criminology and Criminal Justice – Reed Blacker
English Studies – Aleksander Szaranski
Environmental Biology and Technology – Micaela Cooper
Environment and Physical Geography – Kayden Sim
Fine Arts – Sarah Ederer
Gender Equality and Social Justice – Leah Groenewoud
Geography – Marie Murrell
History – Maxwell Peacock
Mathematics – Megan Pulford
Philosophy – Eamon MacDougall
Political Science – Madilynne Roblot
Psychology – Emily Dawson
Religions and Culture – Olivia Pitcher
Social Welfare – Alexandra McClure

AWARDS
The Dr. Robert L. Cassidy Scholarship in English Studies is awarded to a deserving graduating student,
in English Studies, with an excellent academic record, who will be continuing their studies at either a Faculty
of Education or a graduate school. Students graduating in Concurrent Education - English Studies are also
considered. The recipient is Alexandra Joyce.
The Chancellor’s Community Service Award is presented annually to a graduating student who has
demonstrated dedication to improving the lives of others and making a positive difference in the North Bay
community throughout their undergraduate degree program at Nipissing University. The recipient must have
a sustained record of outstanding leadership and volunteer service, and truly exemplify or live by the motto
“Make a Difference Every Day”. The recipient is Jessica Nolevski.

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The Dr. Paul Kelly Scholarship in Fine Arts is presented to a deserving graduating student in the Faculty
of Arts and Science with a major in Fine Arts, specializing in visual arts, who has excelled in their Fine
Arts courses. Preference is given to a student who has expressed an intention to pursue graduate studies the
following year. The recipient is Davanya Hartwig.
The Stan Michael Lawlor Memorial Award in History was established to honour the life of Stan Michael
Lawlor. It recognizes his dedication and desire to encourage and promote History studies at the graduate
level. It is presented to a deserving graduating student in History at Nipissing University who plans to pursue
graduate History studies in the following year, either through Nipissing University or elsewhere. The recipient
must demonstrate enthusiasm for History through their undergraduate studies at Nipissing University, both
inside and outside the classroom. The recipient is Andrew Ouellette.
The Smith Award was established to honour the lives of Janet Morton and her parents, Bill and Helen
Smith, to recognize their dedication to the North Bay community. It strives to encourage dynamic and
creative people to become potentially outstanding teachers of History. It is presented to a deserving student in
their final year of full-time study, majoring in History at Nipissing University, who plans to teach. Students
graduating in Concurrent Education – History are also considered. The recipient demonstrates an enthusiasm
for History through their studies at Nipissing University, both inside and outside the classroom. The recipient
is Danielle Hall.
The Owen Ilkyaz Tuncali Award is presented to a deserving graduating student majoring in Mathematics
who has obtained a high average in their major. The recipient is Megan Pulford.
The Bachelor of Social Work Award for Outstanding Achievement is awarded to a graduating fourth
year BSW student who achieves the highest grade point average in the professional years of study and who
demonstrates an outstanding contribution in field education. Students are selected by the Department of
Social Work on the recommendation of the Social Work Departmental Group. The recipients are Sara
Ouellette and Jordan Tremblay.
The Bachelor of Social Work Award for Outstanding Contribution to Professional Social Work
Leadership in Northeastern Ontario is awarded to a graduating fourth year BSW student who demonstrates
an outstanding contribution to social work leadership in Northeastern Ontario. This leadership shall be
demonstrated by understanding and enacting the core principles of anti-oppressive practice in a variety of
ways such as: achievements in field education, academic assignments, group projects, classroom discussions,
extra-curricular activities, peer mentoring and leadership; using anti-oppressive practice to promote
empowerment among oppressed groups; and challenging inequality and/or oppression in their own lives and
practice. The recipient is selected by the Department of Social Work on the recommendation of the Social
Work Departmental Group. The recipient is Shannon Noris.

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J.W. TRUSLER PROFICIENCY AWARDS IN EDUCATION
The J.W. Trusler Proficiency Awards in Education are presented to six graduating students, as selected by the
faculty of each division, based primarily on academic achievement and excellence in practice teaching. Each
student will receive a Bronze Medal and a cash award of $300.

PRIMARY/JUNIOR
Kaitlyn Case
Kim Hansen
Taylor Roncali

JUNIOR /INTERMEDIATE
Marni Sandell

INTERMEDIATE/SENIOR
Titus More
Amanda Jarvis

EDUCATION AWARDS
The Abby DeBruyn Memorial Award was established to honour the life of Nipissing University alumna,
Abby DeBruyn, in recognition of her dedication and passion for education. The award is presented to a
graduating Bachelor of Education student in the Intermediate/Senior division who demonstrates leadership
qualities and an enthusiasm for the program, both inside and outside the classroom. The recipient is
Katie Talbot.
The Ahti Jones Memorial Award was established to honour the life of educator, Ahti Jones. This award is
presented to a graduating Bachelor of Education student (Concurrent or Consecutive) who has a strong academic
record. The deserving recipient must have their teaching qualification in French as a Second Language and
plan to pursue a career teaching French. The recipient is Jasmine Brioux.
The CCUPEKA Student Leadership Award is presented annually by the Canadian Council of University
Physical Education and Kinesiology Administrators to a deserving full time BPHE graduate who demonstrates
exceptional professionalism and dedication to the field, and one who has made a significant contribution to
the BPHE program, the campus or the greater community. Each student nominated demonstrated leadership,
commitment and an ability to motivate and influence others. Nominated students must meet the minimum
GPA requirements as determined by the Director of the BPHE program. The recipient receives a framed
certificate and will have their name engraved on a plaque displayed in the Centre for Physical and Health
Education. The recipient is Kiara Jefferies.
The Brook Doseger Memorial Award was established to honour Nipissing alumna, Brook Doseger. The award
is presented annually to a graduate of the Bachelor of Education (Consecutive or Concurrent) program who
demonstrates a passion for children’s literature (eg. volunteer work, leadership, authorship), care and compassion
for fellow learners and one who contributes to the enrichment of the Nipissing community. The recipient is
nominated by their peers and selected by the Schulich School of Education Student Awards Committee. The
recipient is Devon Prout.

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The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario – Near North Local Award is presented to a student from
the Schulich School of Education in the Primary/Junior or Junior/Intermediate division of the Bachelor of
Education program who was highly successful in all practice teaching placements. The award is intended to be
presented to a student who will pursue a career in teaching and ideally register as a member of the Elementary
Teachers’ Federation. The recipient is Victoria King.
The Dr. Doug Franks Memorial Award was established by the Schulich School of Education to honour a
special colleague and friend, Dr. Doug Franks. The award is presented annually to a graduate of the Bachelor of
Education (Consecutive or Concurrent) program who intends to enter the Master of Education degree program
at Nipissing University. The award recipient demonstrates care and compassion for fellow learners and has
contributed to the enrichment of the Nipissing community during his or her BEd degree program. The recipient
is Daniel Hutchings.
The Ann Patricia Graham Memorial Award is presented annually to a graduating female student in the
Bachelor of Education program who, while a student at Nipissing University, demonstrated superior leadership
abilities. The recipient is Raquel Branch.
The Alan and Joyce Johnson Memorial Award was established to honour Alan (1922-1994), the first Dean of
the Faculty of Education, and his wife Joyce (1925-2009), an ardent supporter of the local arts community. Two
scholarships are presented to Indigenous students graduating from the Bachelor of Education program with a
strong academic standing who intend to go on to teach in an indigenous community. Preference for one of the
scholarships is given to a student who has volunteered and played an active role in the programs offered through
the Nipissing University Office of Indigenous Initiatives as an indication of interest in supporting aboriginal
communities. The recipients are Samual Boston and Jessica Giesbrecht.
The Cynthia Johnston Memorial Award is presented annually, in memory of Cynthia Johnston (BEd 2007),
to a graduating student of the Bachelor of Education program who has displayed a positive attitude and a strong
work ethic throughout the program. Preference is given to someone who expresses a sincere desire to teach Music.
The recipient is William O’Neill.
The Stacey Koebel Memorial Award is presented annually, in memory of Stacey Koebel (BEd 2000), to a
graduating student in the Primary/Junior or Junior/Intermediate division of the Schulich School of Education
who expresses a desire to teach in Canada’s Far North (Northwest Territories, Yukon, Nunavut). The recipient is
Gillian Quinn.
The Greg Kotsilidis Memorial Award is presented to a deserving, graduating Bachelor of Education student who
achieved a high average in the Visual Arts course (Intermediate or Senior) and who demonstrated a commitment
to encouraging the value of art in education. The recipient is Tristen Stinkowji.
The Dr. Helen Langford Scholarship is presented annually to a student in the Primary/Junior division of the
Bachelor of Education program who has demonstrated academic excellence and exemplary teaching practices
in the Methods and Practice Teaching courses. This scholarship was established in honour of Dr. Langford’s
passionate and enthusiastic dedication to education and most notably her kind and gentle manner in the classroom,
making her students feel welcome and comfortable. The recipient is Rachel McLay.

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The Dr. David Liddle Award in Education was established to honour the life of former Nipissing University
Chancellor Dr. David Liddle. This award recognizes his dedication and passion for education. The award
is presented to a graduating Bachelor of Education student in the Concurrent or Consecutive program who
attended a local high school. The recipient must demonstrate service to the community through volunteerism and
a passion for education through mentorship. The recipient must also have positively impacted the lives of others
beyond the university setting. The recipient is Jansen Ortepi.
The Sondra Nesterenko Memorial Award is presented annually to a deserving student graduating from the
Junior/Intermediate division of the Schulich School of Education. The recipient possesses superior leadership
skills and talents within an educational setting. The recipient is Olivia Epelbaum.
The North Bay Sports Hall of Fame Barbara Olmsted Award is presented annually to a graduate of Nipissing
University’s BPHE program who has been accepted in the Masters of Science in Kinesiology at Nipissing
University. The recipient should show evidence of outstanding achievement at the undergraduate level with
particular emphasis on research potential, community engagement and academic performance. Preference will
be given, but not restricted, to students who have demonstrated a commitment to campus and/or community
health and wellness. The recipient is selected by a committee comprising MSc Kinesiology faculty. The recipient
is Alexander Maycock.
The Stan Pasko Mathematics Award is presented to a student in the Primary/Junior division of the Schulich
School of Education who excelled in Mathematics and who was graded highly successful in their practice teaching
placements. The recipient is Laura Minster.
The Allan and Lois Schmidt Award is awarded to a graduate of the Bachelor of Education program at the Junior/
Intermediate level of the Schulich School of Education who was a former graduate of Nipissing University with at
least a second class standing. The recipient has demonstrated enthusiasm and passion for teaching children and
excellence in practice teaching. The recipient is Leah Chin.
The Sudbury Teachers’ Lions Club Award in Memory of Professor Susan Stuart was established by a group of
retired educators in Sudbury and surrounding area in memory of Susan Stuart, a professor at Nipissing University
who passed away in January, 2019. As a professor of mathematics in the Schulich School of Education, Susan’s
talents extended far beyond the classroom. She developed and authored many teacher resources and she worked
with Nipissing to provide training for educators in other countries. She was very passionate about giving back and
her volunteerism speaks volumes. OAME, Sudbury Teachers’ Lions and CFUW Sudbury benefited greatly from
her hours of work to benefit others. The award is presented to a student enrolled in the Bachelor of Education
program who has displayed a positive attitude to teaching; a willingness to assist fellow classmates; and exemplary
volunteer, leadership and citizenship qualities. The recipient is Kassidy Seldon.
The Elijah Tupling Memorial Award was established in memory of Elijah Tupling (BEd 2008) and is awarded
to a pre-service teacher who demonstrates an outstanding commitment to their role as a Professional Learning
Assistant within the Professional Learning program. The recipient must show empathy and strong interpersonal
skills. The recipient is Amanda Theriault.
The William and Helen Wright Native Teaching Award is presented to a deserving student enrolled in the
Schulich School of Education who expresses a sincere desire to teach in Native Communities or other remote
areas of Canada. The recipient is Jennifer Burggraaff.

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NIPISSING UNIVERSITY MACE
The design of Nipissing University’s mace is a complex mixture of artistry and power. Its presence
represents the authority vested in the University to grant degrees, yet its design signifies more
than the right to certify students as knowledgeable; it incorporates all the effort, history and
tradition that surround both the site of and the vision for the University.
Designed after Nipissing received its degree-granting charter on December 10, 1992, the
mace masterfully pulls together the many symbolic elements important to its identity: the
University’s crest, the Athenian owl pictured on the crest, the Nipissing University logo,
Nipissing’s motto “Integritas” and the traditions of the Ojibwa people who have been
keepers of the land on which the University stands.
The Nipissing University mace is an expression of growth and transformation within a
context of harmony and equanimity with the world in which we dwell, specifically, the
Nipissing landscape. From the wisdom of the Anishinabek people, the mace draws the
symbolism of the four orders of creation – mineral, plant, animal and human (and the
gifts of the Four Winds):
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the mineral elements are represented by the local red granite, gold, silver, bronze
and polished stones that signify the four cardinal directions – red, yellow, white,
and black;
the plant world is represented in the form of oak and maple leaves carved into the
shaft of the mace;
the animal world finds its representation in the owl; and
the human element is represented by the hands that hold the mace and the hands
that crafted it.

As well, in keeping with Indigenous tradition, the mace joins Mother Earth and
Father Sky as it journeys symbolically from the fragment of granite at its base
through the trees to the golden sphere of the sun and the owl of the air.
Like the institution it represents, the mace is not static; it expresses growth,
movement and perpetuity. Time is asserted through the four seasons and
the transformation of the oak and maple from buds to leaves to fruit.
The movement of the eagle feathers, the beads of the “medicine wheel”,
and the owl, poised with an ambiguous relationship to flight, add to
the dynamics.
The University itself is represented by the embossed silver and
enameled emblem repeated to form a band, by the four coats of
arms that support the crown, and by the embossed silver motto
“Integritas.” The mace is designed to represent those attributes which
make Nipissing distinct: Harmony – Growth – Perpetuity.

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