7-Spring 2016 Program-Social Sciences PM- June 15

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Five hundred
and fifty-six
for conferring degrees
Presiding
Chancellor
Suzanne B. Labarge
B.A., M.B.A., D.Litt. (Hon.)
President and Vice-Chancellor
Patrick Deane
B.A. (Hons.), M.A., Ph.D.
Wednesday June 15, 2016: 2:30 p.m., Great Hall, Hamilton Place 1
ORDER OF EXERCISES
Musical Prelude
The Graduand Procession
The Academic Procession
The Chancellor’s Procession
The Provost’s Welcome
Dr. David Wilkinson
The Chancellor’s Welcome
Dr. Suzanne B. Labarge
The Conferring of the Degree Doctor of Laws honoris causa on Dr. Steven Hillel Paikin
Citation: Dr. Patrick Deane
The Convocation Address
Dr. Steven Hillel Paikin
The Conferring of Degrees In-Course
Musical Interlude
The Presentation of the Graduates
The Valedictory Address
Nathan Beresh
Awards of the 2015-2016 Session
The Alumni Address
McMaster Alumni Association
The President’s Address
Dr. Patrick Deane
Announcements
The National Anthem
Convocation ceremonies will be recorded, broadcasted live and archived at http://registrar.mcmaster.ca/grad
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The President’s academic regalia is a gift of the McMaster University Alumni Association.
The Convocation Music Supervisor...................................... Arlene Wright (Piano)
Convocation Trumpeters....................................................... Bob Grim and Valerie Cowie
Piper...................................................................................... Jamie Connolly
Vocalist................................................................................. Margaret Bárdos
Immediately following Convocation, graduates and their guests are invited for a reception in Hamilton Convention Centre in Wentworth Room BC.
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THE RITUALS OF CONVOCATION
The procession of the graduands in plain black gowns and of faculty and officers of the University in
colourful and varied regalia; the blue-robed Bedel with his ornate silver Mace; the conferring of degrees
by the Chancellor; these are among the rituals of Convocation that stand in a tradition that has a history
of more than 700 years.
McMASTER UNIVERSITY:
The University’s Mace is carried to and from the Convocation
platform by the University Bedel and during the ceremony is
splendidly displayed on the Mace Table, resting on a velvet
cushion. The cushion is maroon with a piping of grey, the
McMaster colours. The Mace symbolizes the authority of the
University Senate to confer degrees, this authority being exercised
by the Chancellor.
1892 – 1895 Theodore H. Rand
Bedels were functionaries and maces were weapons hundreds of
years before universities emerged in the 12th and 13th centuries.
So it is that McMaster’s Bedel carries the University Mace directly
in front of the Chancellor, symbolically to protect her.
CHANCELLORS
1887 – 1890 Malcolm Mac Vicar
1895 – 1905 Oates C. S. Wallace
1905 – 1911 Alexander C. McKay
1911 – 1922 Abraham L. McCrimmon
1922 – 1941 Howard P. Whidden
The University
Mace was a gift
in 1950 from the
class of 1900
1941 – 1950 George P. Gilmour
1950 – 1955 E. Carey Fox
1955 – 1960 Roy L. Kellock
1960 – 1965 Charles P. Fell
The Chancellor sits on a massive oak ceremonial chair that bears
a carved representation of an early version of the University Seal.
She requests that members of the graduating classes rise from
their seats and then admits them to their respective degrees.
The graduating classes are then invited to join the Chancellor on
stage. Once a graduate’s name is called, they are hooded facing
the audience, and then are congratulated and welcomed to the
community of scholars by the Chancellor and President.
1965 – 1971 D. Argue C. Martin
1971 – 1977 Lawrence T. Pennell
1977 – 1986 H. Allan B. Leal
1986 – 1992 John H. Panabaker
1992 – 1998 James H. Taylor
1998 – 2007 Melvin M. Hawkrigg
The academic hood is symbolic of admission to a university degree
and carries colours specific to a particular degree. It is derived
from clothing worn in medieval times, when a hood was similar to
that of a modern parka and served the same purpose of protection
in inclement weather. The hood that the Registrar or pro-Registrar
deftly puts over a graduand’s head is a link to the dress of students
of at least seven centuries ago.
The backdrop to the Convocation platform displays McMaster’s Coat of Arms. The symbol of the stag and
tree, constituting the crest of these Arms, was the personal emblem of Senator William McMaster, whose
munificent benefaction made possible the founding of the University in 1887. Handcrafted by Dorothy
Gregson and Margaret Wallace, this banner celebrated 30 years of service at McMaster Convocation
ceremonies in 2014.
The President of the University attends Convocation but it is the Chancellor, the titular head of the
University, who presides over this ancient ceremonial. Her seniority is indicated by her robe being more
elegant than the President’s. The President relieves the Chancellor of making announcements, may
present an honorary graduand for his or her degree and, as Vice-Chancellor, confers degrees when the
Chancellor is unable to do so.
2007 – 2013 Lynton R. Wilson
2013 –
Suzanne B. Labarge
PRESIDENTS
1949 – 1961 George P. Gilmour
1961 – 1972 Henry G. Thode
1972 – 1980 Arthur N. Bourns
1980 – 1990 Alvin A. Lee
1990 – 1995 Geraldine A. Kenney-Wallace
1995 – 2010 Peter J. George
2010 –
Patrick Deane
A Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Bedel and Registrar share with a seal, mace, colours, robes and coat of
arms a history of hundreds of years of association with universities. Each of these traditional inheritances
is a part of McMaster University and all of them come together on the platform of its Convocations.
Wednesday June 15, 2016: 2:30 p.m., Great Hall, Hamilton Place
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Convocation is an exciting time in the calendar of any university; a time to celebrate achievement, to reflect
on the past, and to anticipate the future and the path that lies ahead. It also represents a time of liberation,
the ending of one phase of life and a last, symbolic statement of the discipline to which students have been
required to submit themselves throughout their studies.
While it is impossible at such events not to celebrate the infinite promise of individual lives, it is important
to be aware of the communal significance of convocation. In the ancient English universities, convocation
was the legislative body that oversaw operations of the institution, and to be admitted to a degree was to be
admitted to membership. By extension, therefore, convocation was a reaffirmation of not an individual but a
joint enterprise.
Students today have learned the importance of collaboration and partnership, and more than ever understand
that the future health, prosperity and cultural vitality of our society depends upon our ability to cooperate,
to act together, and to learn from one another. My fervent hope is that graduating students will see their
convocation not as an end of growing together, but rather as an opportunity for deepening that process. As
alumni they will have many opportunities to renew existing partnerships, and they will be well prepared to
forge new ones in the greater community beyond our own.
Personal fulfillment through community: this is indeed one of the longstanding paradoxes of university life, but
it is surely also a sound principle for us all to pursue in the world at large. In wishing today’s graduating students
good luck, I feel great confidence in our joint future and great anticipation of everything that, collectively, they
will achieve.
Patrick Deane
President and Vice-Chancellor
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION GREETINGS
On behalf of your fellow McMaster alumni, we offer you sincere congratulations for having successfully earned
your degree. In addition to growing through the challenges of obtaining your formal education, we hope you
have taken full advantage of everything McMaster has to offer outside the walls of the classroom.
As an alumnus or alumna you are entering a new phase in your relationship with McMaster. Graduation is
merely a milestone in your life-long association with our University. As alumni, you can play a continuing role
as supporters of McMaster’s excellence by sharing your time, expertise, and enthusiasm with your alma mater.
As your Alumni Association, we are committed to providing you with many opportunities to maintain and grow
your links with McMaster. McMaster’s alumni network, events, offerings, experiences, and programs will be
great resources in your post-degree endeavours. We welcome you to the next step in a rewarding and dynamic
relationship with our world-class university.
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Faculty of Social Sciences
SUZANNE B. LABARGE
Chancellor, McMaster University
A native of Ottawa, Ms. Labarge holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from McMaster University and
a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.
Ms. Labarge joined Royal Bank in 1971 and held a variety of positions within the bank prior to being appointed
an executive officer in 1979. She left the bank in 1985 to join the federal government as assistant auditorgeneral where she was responsible for a report on Financial Management and Control in the Government of
Canada.
She joined the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada in 1987 as deputy superintendent,
policy responsible for developing regulatory policies for Canadian financial institutions. She was a member
of the BIS Committee for Bank Supervision. In her last position as deputy superintendent, deposit-taking
institutions, Ms. Labarge was responsible for all matters relating to deposit-taking institutions.
Ms. Labarge returned to the bank as executive vice-president, Corporate Treasury, in April 1995. She assumed
the role of chief risk officer in October 1998 and was appointed vice-chairman and chief risk officer in February
1999. She retired from that position in December 2004.
Ms. Labarge is a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Audit Committee of Coca-Cola Enterprises.
She also serves on the Board of Directors, the Audit Committee and the Risk and Finance Committee of XL
Group and is trustee for a Canadian family trust and director of associated companies. She has served as a
member of the Supervisory Board and Risk Committee of Deutsche Bank, as a director and chair of the audit
committee of Novelis Inc and was also a member of the Board of the Bank of China, Beijing.
She served on the Board of Governors for McMaster University for twelve years. She was appointed Chancellor
of McMaster University in Sept. 2013. She also serves on the board of the Ontario Brain Institute.
She was granted an honorary Doctor of Letters degree degree from McMaster University and is a recipient of
the Queen’s jubilee medal.
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PRESENTERS OF DEGREES, DIPLOMAS, AND CERTIFICATES
Dr. George Thomas
Professor Emeritus, Department of
Linguistics & Languages
Dr. Tony Porter
Professor, and Associate Dean (Graduate Studies and Research),
Faculty of Social Sciences
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
ANTHROPOLOGY
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Kandace Lynne Bogaert
Thesis:
Casualties of War? An Ethnographic Epidemiology of the 1918
Influenza Pandemic Among Soldiers in Canada
Fatma Armagan Teke Lloyd
Thesis:
Gender, Migration Regimes and Frames of Deservingness:
The Gendered Management of Women’s Care Migration from
Armenia to Turkey
Brandi Lee MacDonald
Thesis:
Methodological Developments for the Geochemical Analysis of
Ochre from Archaeological Contexts: Case Studies from British
Columbia and Ontario, Canada
Tian Yang
Thesis:
Stephanie Louise Tombari
Thesis:
The Green Publicity State: Sustainability, Austerity, and the
‘Green Economy’ in Michigan and Ontario, 2007-2012
Assessing Heritage, Tradition, and Identity: Anthropological
Research among the Jurchen People of Wanyan Village
MASTER OF ARTS
ANTHROPOLOGY
INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS
Mary Lynn Tobiasz
POLITICAL SCIENCE
WORK AND SOCIETY
Alexander Moldovan
Milinda Adoma
Caroline Mary Fram
Khaled Al-Kassimi
BACHELOR OF ARTS
HONOURS
★Yasmen Abdelkhalek............Economics & Political
Science
★Nicholas Randall Abrams............. Anthropology &
Religious Studies
Affan Ahmad................................Political Science
(Minor in Sociology)
Qutaiba Helal Al Nimer......................... Economics
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Mohammed Al-Ani....... Anthropology & Sociology
(Minor in Psychology)
Anastasia Alexis Andricopoulos..............Religious
Studies & Sociology
Sarah Rachel Appleby................ Religious Studies
(Minor in Indigenous Studies)
★Curtis Aquino........................................ Economics
★ with distinction (achievement of a minimum Grade Point Average of 9.5/12)
Arzu Aram....................................Political Science
Stephanie Arlt...................................Anthropology
★Liam O’Grady Askwith.........Economics & Political
Science
★Rachael Ball-Condron..................Political Science
(Minor in History)
★Ryan Balsam..........Economics & Political Science
Faculty of Social Sciences
BACHELOR OF ARTS, HONOURS (CONTINUED…)
Ruqaiya Bengali.................................... Economics
★Madeleine Victoria Benjamin............Economics &
Psychology
★Nathan Daniel Robert Beresh.... Religious Studies
(Minor in History)
(Minor in Jewish Studies)
Spencer Raye Bernacci.....................Anthropology
(Minor in English & Cultural Studies)
Hanna Beydoun............................Political Science
Connor Nicholas Blair.................... Labour Studies
Kristina Borojevic.........................Political Science
(Minor in Labour Studies)
Alexander Joseph Boyle...................Anthropology
Jennifer Deanna Broughton........Labour Studies &
Political Science
Maurice Junior Brown............... Religious Studies
(Minor in History)
Nicole Ann Burke..............................Anthropology
Connor Troy Cadaret.............................. Economics
★Melissa Cameron..........Labour Studies & Political
Science
★Kathryn Campeau..............................Anthropology
(Minor in Geography and Earth Sciences)
Brenna Kathryn Carriere................ Labour Studies
★Adam Bradley Carter.......Economics & Psychology
Angela Myra Casol......................Political Science
Umair Amjid Chaudhry.................Political Science
Si Jia Chen............................................ Economics
Carolynn Denise Chennery............ Anthropology &
Religious Studies
Allan Cho............................................... Economics
Barrie Lok-Hay Choi.............................. Economics
Feng-Yi Chu.................................... Labour Studies
Xing En Earnie Chua.....................Political Science
(Minor in Economics)
Caitlyn Ashley Clark..........................Anthropology
(Minor in Linguistics)
★Jeffrey Allen Coffin...........................Anthropology
★Alexandra Jaqueline Crone..............Anthropology
(Minor in Sustainability)
Kimberly Khrys’An Cross..............Political Science
(Minor in Sociology)
Mownika Cugadhasan......................Anthropology
(Minor in Psychology)
Christian David Carwyn Cullis...... Anthropology &
Political Science
John D’Addario............................Political Science
Kelly Judy D’Mello.......................Political Science
★Rhea D’Mello...............................Political Science
Elliot Peter Davis................................... Economics
Marc De Rango..................................... Economics
(Minor in Business)
Danielle Helen Deschenes...........Political Science
Taylor Drouillard.........Labour Studies & Sociology
★Lisa Rachelle Duggan................ Religious Studies
Salma El-Zamel............................Political Science
★Derek Bradley Ellens.................. Religious Studies
(Minor in Psychology)
Carly Claire Emmett.....................Political Science
Imran Ali Esmail.................................... Economics
Carly Marie Esposto...Labour Studies & Sociology
Cassandra Victoria Faarup............. Labour Studies
(Minor in Religious Studies)
Xiyue Fan............................................... Economics
Nathan Wilfred Felteau................. Labour Studies
★Antonella Grazietta Fidanza Betancourt.................
Economics
Ryan Joseph Figueira...................Political Science
(Minor in History)
Natalie Florek................................. Labour Studies
(Minor in Business)
Danielle Mary Fraser...................Political Science
Jame Frichitthavong............................. Economics
★Aravintharaam Ganesalingam.............. Economics
Matthew Kyle Geddes.................Political Science
Ramanjeet Ghutarora............................ Economics
Harman Gill........................................... Economics
Eric Avery Gillis.............................. Labour Studies
(Minor in Political Science)
★Priyanka Gogna.................................Anthropology
(Minor in Biology)
Ashley Elizabeth Griffin................Political Science
Shuaib Hafid.................................Political Science
(Minor in Geography and Earth Sciences)
Jiahui Han............................................. Economics
Arifa Haque.......................................Anthropology
(Minor in Sustainability)
★Summer Harb.......... Political Science & Sociology
Mercedes Hicks........... Anthropology & Sociology
★Rachel Karen High.. Political Science & Sociology
Tamara Hluchaniuk............................Anthropology
(Minor in Archaeology)
Julia Lorinne Homeniuk....................Anthropology
(Minor in Psychology)
Kayla Huckerby............ Anthropology & Sociology
Sulaiman Huda...................................... Economics
★Carly Elizabeth Hunter......................Anthropology
(Minor in Sociology)
Maryam Ijaz Jaffery................. Political Science &
Sociology
Kaushiki Jaiswal................................... Economics
★Loretta Janes....................................Anthropology
★Harisan Jeyakumar............................... Economics
Dale Johnston..............................Political Science
Sarah Katelynn Juchniewicz.............Anthropology
Nam Heon Jung.................................... Economics
Zoe-Georgie-Elpitha Kalakos........ Anthropology &
Religious Studies
Katerina Kalenteridis..................Labour Studies &
Anthropolgy
Sarah Alisha Kang......................... Labour Studies
Rishi Kapoor.................................Political Science
(Minor in Sociology)
Wednesday June 15, 2016: 2:30 p.m., Great Hall, Hamilton Place Hyonwoo Kee...... Economics & Computer Science
Artemiy A. Khmelyov....Labour Studies & Political
Science
Maham Khokhar.................................... Economics
Stephen Kofi-akuffo.....................Political Science
(Minor in Health, Aging & Society)
Nebojsa Kukulj...................................... Economics
Man Tsaan Lai....................................... Economics
Cheong Shing Lam................................ Economics
(Minor in Finance)
Kendra Paige Lange....................... Labour Studies
Changhoon Lee..................................... Economics
James Phillippe Douglas Leighton............Political
Science
Andrew Cho-Ying Li....................... Labour Studies
(Minor in Economics)
Yi Li........................................................ Economics
Zhi Qian Li............................................. Economics
Silin Liang............................................. Economics
Haoyan Liao.......................................... Economics
(Minor in Finance)
Alim Shakil Lila............................Political Science
(Minor in Philosophy)
Branden Douglas Lindley...................... Economics
Emily Pei Hua Liu..............................Anthropology
(Minor in English & Cultural Studies)
Tiantian Liu............................................ Economics
Raffaele Locane......................... Religious Studies
(Minor in French)
Jordan Winston Luong.................Political Science
David Keith MacDonald....................Anthropology
★Ryan Elliott MacDonald...............Political Science
(Minor in Economics)
Scott Dennis MacDonald...................... Economics
(Minor in Business)
Jakob Edward Mach....................Political Science
Jenna Samantha Magee.............Political Science
Cavan Frank Maiolo.....................Political Science
(Minor in Religious Studies)
Anusha Malik........... Political Science & Religious
Studies
Marcin Pawel Malinowski...........Political Science
(Minor in English & Cultural Studies)
Sarah Mamo...Labour Studies & Political Science
Hisham Mapara.................................... Economics
(Minor in Business)
Ana Sofia Martin-Aguilera................Anthropology
Julianna Joan Mastroluisi............. Labour Studies
Megan McCrory...........................Political Science
Jacqueline Marie Meijer..................Anthropology
Jesse Antonio Melo.....................Political Science
(Minor in Sociology)
Gyoung Ho Min..................................... Economics
(Minor in Music)
Martina Misic.......... Political Science & Religious
Studies
Gregory Moffat..................................... Economics
★ with distinction (achievement of a minimum Grade Point Average of 9.5/12)
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BACHELOR OF ARTS, HONOURS (CONTINUED…)
Shane Edward Molczan................. Labour Studies
(Minor in Sociology)
Felicia Montecalvo..................... Religious Studies
Kyung Youl Moon.................................. Economics
River Moon........................................Anthropology
(Minor in Archaeology)
Connor Morris......... Political Science & Sociology
Mursal Zuhal Muhsiny.................Political Science
Vanessa Muraca............................ Labour Studies
Alan Murphy................................Political Science
Aula Mustafa...............................Political Science
Stephen James Negus.......................... Economics
Taylor Elizabeth Ashley Noble..........Anthropology
Porshia Osei...........Religious Studies & Sociology
Mahnoor Osmani.................................. Economics
(Minor in Business)
Somya Paliwal............. Anthropology & Sociology
Zubair Mohammed Ali Parkar............... Economics
(Minor in Religious Studies)
Elaf Quadri................................. Religious Studies
(Minor in Jewish Studies)
Yu Quan................................................. Economics
Benjamin Martin John Reed................. Economics
Trevor William Reid............................... Economics
★Catherine Jane Audrey Renwick.......Economics &
Mathematics
Zachary John Rewi......................Political Science
Tyler Jordan Richardson........................ Economics
Michael James Riddell......................Economics &
Mathematics
Juan David Rios.....Economics & Political Science
(Minor in Business)
★Xin Ruan................................................ Economics
(Minor in Finance)
April Stephanie Ruiz............................. Economics
Salvatore Salamone.....................Political Science
Feras Saleh........................................... Economics
Nader Salha.......................................... Economics
Cristina Santos.. Anthropology & Political Science
James Saunders...............................Anthropology
Matthew James Schmidt..................... Economics
Travis Earl Schreiber....................Political Science
Qin Shen................................................ Economics
George Michael Shepherd...........Political Science
★Yara Shoufani...............................Political Science
(Minor in Labour Studies)
Avneet Singh......................................... Economics
Kiranjot Kaur Singh............................... Economics
(Minor in Philosophy)
Harresh Sivamohan............................... Economics
Bridget Smith....................................Anthropology
Marshauna Smith Parkes......... Political Science &
Sociology
Dah Law Eh Soe...........................Political Science
(Minor in Economics)
Zafir Ashif Somani................................ Economics
(Minor in Psychology)
★Jessica Peixinho Sopher..............Political Science
Irina Stanciu Casin............................Anthropology
(Minor in History)
Peter Johann Stewart-Kroeker.. Religious Studies
Sifat Syeda.............Economics & Political Science
Ibiso Tariah............................................ Economics
Nilen Thamphirasan.............Economics & Political
Science
★Abraham Rohan Thomas............ Religious Studies
(Minor in Economics)
★Raffi Thomasian.................................... Economics
★Sarah Thomson.................................Anthropology
Geeta Anjanie Tiwari............... Political Science &
Religious Studies
Jennifer Toito............... Anthropology & Sociology
Thi Phuong Hoa Tran............................. Economics
Saima Tufail......................................Anthropology
Julia Anne Vanderkooy.Labour Studies & Political
Science
Drew Christian Villabroza............Political Science
Philippe Keith Custodio Visaya.........Anthropology
(Minor in Archaeology)
Antonija Vistica.................................Anthropology
Brendan Michael Wallace.................... Economics
Jake Mengkun Wang.. Economics & Mathematics
Xueqian Wang....................................... Economics
Anton Maksym Waschuk.............Political Science
Xinlei Wen............................................. Economics
Brock Westman............................Political Science
(Minor in Philosophy)
★Michael John Wolfsgruber..........Political Science
(Minor in Philosophy)
Ka Hei Wong......................................... Economics
(Minor in Finance)
Annamica Yadav........................ Religious Studies
(Minor in Business)
Ashish Yadav......................................... Economics
Tihana Kathryn Yurkovic................ Anthropology &
Geography
Rebecca Nichole Zachar................ Labour Studies
Lan Zhang.............................................. Economics
Sixuan Zhang........................................ Economics
★Yiying Zhang.......................................... Economics
Maksymilian Ziolkowski..............Political Science
★Hans Zuriel............................................ Economics
BACHELOR OF ARTS
Aish Abid......................................Political Science
Bining Ai................................................ Economics
Leanne Akram..............................Political Science
Nicholas Graham Banfield.................... Economics
James Barclay............................ Religious Studies
Emma Barker.....................................Anthropology
Lukas Barrowclough....................... Labour Studies
Bravin Baskaran.................................... Economics
Timothy Batke................................ Labour Studies
Quincy Cynthia Suzanne Batson..Political Science
Janikka Mavis Cassandra Blair Murray.....General
Taylor Marie Bridgewood...................... Economics
Jack Thomas Brillinger.....................Anthropology
Taylor Brisebois.............................. Labour Studies
Michael Brodie...................................... Economics
Liam Garrett Caldwell........................... Economics
Jacqueline Anne Campeau................... Economics
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Andrew Roberto Cancilla.............Political Science
Jennifer Lauren Carlisle...............Political Science
Justin Quinn Casuccio.......................... Economics
Navdeep Singh Chatrath....................... Economics
Si Chen.................................................. Economics
Yun Na Chen.......................................... Economics
Jillian Chevrier..................................Anthropology
Tsailing Michelle Chiang....................... Economics
Miranda Vivian Clayton....................Anthropology
Katherine Clifford.................................. Economics
Jeffrey Jordan Colasurdo.............. Labour Studies
Michael Couto..............................Political Science
Biranavan Cugananthan........................ Economics
Erica Livia De Luca.......................Political Science
Kaumadhi Inakshi De Zoysa.................. Economics
Nikola Delic.................................... Labour Studies
Matthew Konstanty Dislakis................ Economics
★ with distinction (achievement of a minimum Grade Point Average of 9.5/12)
Xinyang Du............................................ Economics
Taylor Elliot............................................ Economics
Mariah Erjavec............................... Labour Studies
Zain Farid.....................................Political Science
Matthew Gallo...................................... Economics
Frank Geronimo..................................... Economics
Ramneet Kaur Gill................................. Economics
Megan Ashley Goodman...................... Economics
Shaquille Gordon.........................Political Science
Baily Marie Graham.............................. Economics
Aaron Patrick Grant............................... Economics
Anthony Gravina............................ Labour Studies
David Jeffrey Hazell.............................. Economics
Catherine Houzwiczka.................... Labour Studies
Wei En Hung......................................... Economics
Alvin Islam............................................ Economics
Arun Jagga............................................ Economics
Faculty of Social Sciences
Kristina Ana Jankovic.......................Anthropology
Susanna Klahsen....................... Religious Studies
Kristy Kover..................................Political Science
Yun Hang Kwan..................................... Economics
Jamie Lai.................................... Religious Studies
Stephanie Lamb.................................... Economics
Ruth Lewis...................................Political Science
Ka-ho Ho Nicholas Li...................Political Science
Hannah Victoria Loo..........................Anthropology
Siti Khadijah Mahmud Ariff.................. Economics
Florim Makolaj...................................... Economics
Aisha Malik.................................... Labour Studies
Ida M. Marrelli..................................Anthropology
Carla Teresa Martines.......................Anthropology
★Lindsey McGowan......................... Labour Studies
Dylan McMullen................................... Economics
Julia Mary Mele...............................Anthropology
Marcus Joseph Melo............................ Economics
Taylor Muriel Merkley..................Political Science
Alexander Miller................................... Economics
Frank Tanner Miller............................... Economics
Sapna Mohan...............................Political Science
Sapna Mohan........................................ Economics
Mariya Molochko.................................. Economics
Peter Xuansheng Mu............................ Economics
Mahmoud Nasser.......................... Labour Studies
Sumair Nazir......................................... Economics
Eric Ngo.......................................... Labour Studies
Dung Hoang Nguyen............................. Economics
★Melanie Katherine Olds....................Anthropology
★Shyamal Pansuriya................................ Economics
Rajiv Suneil Paraboo....................Political Science
★Teresa Ann Parente........................ Labour Studies
Shinwoo Park........................................ Economics
Shane Christian Parreno....................... Economics
Abigail Erin Pickard...........................Anthropology
Jesse Pulfer.......................................... Economics
Rachel Quinby...................................Anthropology
Jenna Ratcliffe...........................................General
Payam Riazi........................................... Economics
★Keatha-Lee Ann Robinson-Edwards.......................
Anthropology
★Peter Rosser............................... Religious Studies
Nicholas Sayers...........................Political Science
Holly Dakota Schell.................... Religious Studies
Tristan Schram...................................... Economics
Brandon Jackson Scott......................... Economics
Raveen Kaur Sekhon....................Political Science
Brandon David Michael Sharma..Political Science
Sinthu Sivathasan........................Political Science
Shaegan Sriragavan....................... Labour Studies
Jezerae Stewart.................................... Economics
Suliman Sulimankhil...................... Labour Studies
Muhib Syed.................................... Labour Studies
Joshua William Taggett........................ Economics
Deping Tan............................................ Economics
Danielle Leigh Thompson.............. Labour Studies
Michael Tieu......................................... Economics
Jason Tsang.......................................... Economics
Andrea Tullo......................................Anthropology
Ziana Ukani.................................... Labour Studies
Ron Vainstein........................................ Economics
Jese Veltri....................................Political Science
Prianka Pooja Virdi.......................Political Science
Anthony Vu............................................ Economics
Evan James Wade.......................Political Science
Hanying Wang....................................... Economics
Ru Wang................................................ Economics
Xinyu Wang........................................... Economics
Dale West............................................. Economics
Sophie Victoria Wilding....................Anthropology
Taylor James Wilenski......................Anthropology
Thomas Eric Wille................................. Economics
Kieran Michael Woodward................... Economics
Mark Yako....................................Political Science
Kaize Yao............................................... Economics
Jianfeng Ye........................................... Economics
Bojana Zemunovic................................. Economics
Hangtian Zhan....................................... Economics
Xiaoyuan Zhang.................................... Economics
Xuanrong Zhang.................................... Economics
Yuan Zhang............................................ Economics
Zhengheng Heng Zhao.......................... Economics
Names of graduands listed in this program are those recommended to Senate as of June 8, 2016. We regret that late additions to the graduation lists could not be included in this program.
Some names of graduands may not be included in this program at the request of these individuals.
Wednesday June 15, 2016: 2:30 p.m., Great Hall, Hamilton Place ★ with distinction (achievement of a minimum Grade Point Average of 9.5/12)
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UNDERGRADUATE AWARD RECIPIENTS
(2015-2016 SESSION)
MEDALS
TROPHIES AND MERIT AWARDS
THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S ACADEMIC
MEDAL
Aaron Goldberg
Haichao Zhang
THE BURKE MEMORIAL RING
Syed Daud
THE E. H. AMBROSE GOLD MEDAL
Amreen Azam
THE BASU MEDAL
Joshua Santucci
THE BINKLEY MEDAL
Stuart Douglas
THE CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR MECHANICAL
ENGINEERING MEDAL
Beichen Wu
THE DEAN’S MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE
HUMANITIES
Laura Beaudin
Sarah Whitwell
Elizabeth Delaney
Laura Curtis
Isabella Giuliano
THE CSEP/SCPE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT
AWARD
Madeline McDonald
THE W. NORMAN JEEVES SCHOLARSHIP
Peter Hopperton
THE FRANK E. JONES PRIZE
Carleigh Smith
THE DR. JEAN JONES MEMORIAL
SCHOLARSHIP*
Heather Clark
THE SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY MERIT
AWARD
Rohan Philip
Christal Zhou
Oriana Vanderfleet
THE KARL KINANEN ALUMNI PRIZE IN
GERONTOLOGY
Rabia Chaudhry
Courtney Quigg
SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES
THE KINESIOLOGY PRIZES
Taylor Stanojev
Tanner Stokes
THE AIR LIQUIDE CANADA BACHELOR OF
ENGINEERING SCHOLARSHIP
Fathima Samsoodeen
THE ANTHROPOLOGY PRIZE
Deanna Aubert
THE RUTH LANDES PRIZE
Kathryn Campeau
THE FELIKS LITKOWSKI PRIZE IN POLITICAL
SCIENCE
Jessica Sopher
THE BERT MacKINNON MEMORIAL
SCHOLARSHIP
Miruna Birsan
Anderson Grossman
Suzy Flader
THE J. E. L. GRAHAM MEDAL
Pat Vaughn
THE WILLIAM AND LIDA BARNS MEMORIAL
PRIZE IN HISTORY
Tiffany Kitagawa
THE AMELIA HALL GOLD MEDAL
Zachary Williams
THE MARION BATES BOOK PRIZE
Shawna Collins
THE HUMANITIES MEDALS FOR SPECIAL
ACHIEVEMENT
Laura Curtis
Isabella Giuliano
THE ABE BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZES
Madeline Gritzan
Haichao Zhang
Mandeep Samra-Sahota
THE HURD MEDAL
Catherine Renwick
THE DAWSON PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY
Christopher Franko
Eric Lovinger
THE JENSEN MEDAL
Sheldon Pereira
THE JOHN DEERE LIMITED SCHOLARSHIP
Samantha Wang
THE GERALD L. KEECH MEDAL
Stuart Douglas
THE LAURA DODSON PRIZE
Loretta Kerr
THE MAPS GOLD MEDAL
Patrick Meagher
THE BRUCE M. HAMILTON AWARD
Audrey Tan
THE R. C. McIVOR MEDAL
Audrey Tan
THE JENNIFER HEADLEY SCHOLARSHIP
Michael Wolfsgruber
THE A.G. McKAY PRIZE IN CLASSICAL
STUDIES
Jeanne Allen
THE ONTARIO PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS
FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION GOLD MEDAL
Bhavit Patel
THE BURTON R. JAMES MEMORIAL PRIZE
Amreen Azam
THE WALTER SCOTT McLAY SCHOLARSHIP
Sydney Dusselier
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THE AGNES AND JOHN MacNEILL MEMORIAL
PRIZE
Sydney Dusselier
THE CATHERINE MacNEILL PRIZE
Brianna Cheng
Audrey Tan
THE ESTHER McCANDLESS MEMORIAL PRIZE
Nicholas Luymes
THE ESTHER McCANDLESS MEMORIAL PRIZE
Haichao Zhang
THE JOHN R. McCARTHY SCHOLARSHIP
Gabriela Cygan
Amanda Hroncok
Brenelle D’Souza
Brooke Jones
Faculty of Social Sciences
UNDERGRADUATE AWARD RECIPIENTS (CONTINUED …)
THE McMASTER UNIVERSITY FUTURES FUND
GRADUAND SCHOLARSHIP
Lin Li
THE PIONEER ENERGY LP GERONTOLOGY
PRIZE
Orezioghene Akporuno
THE McMASTER NURSING ALUMNI
MEMORIAL PRIZE
Alexandra Oliver
Krista Sferrazza
THE PIONEER ENERGY LP PRIZE IN NURSING
Cailin McMeekin
THE AUDREY EVELYN MEPHAM AWARD
Michelle McGinnes
Megan Acton
Sandani Hapuhennedige Remani Rabindranath
Lauren Karrys
THE MIDDLETON/WALKER PRIZE IN
SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY
Iwona Widurska
Monica Wiercigroch
THE E. S. MOORE PRIZE
Geoff Rose
THE P. L. NEWBIGGING PRIZE
Asher Hastings
Evelina Woszczynska
THE ONTARIO ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL
WORKERS PRIZES
Benjamin Bergey
Heather Clark
Krista Carlin
Petra Popescu-Moody
THE HARRY L. PENNY PRIZE
Diane Liu
THE POLITICAL SCIENCE PRIZE
Michael Wolfsgruber
THE POLITICAL SCIENCE HONOURS ESSAY
PRIZE
Melissa Cameron
THE RICHARD SLOBODIN PRIZE
Beatrice Fletcher
THE SOCIOLOGY PRIZE
Chelsea Gabriele
Pat Vaughn
THE JOHN H. TRUEMAN PRIZE
Sarah Whitwell
THE ALVINA MARIE WERNER SCHOLARSHIP
Justin Johnstone
Audrey Tan
MBA MEDALS AND AWARDS
THE LLOYD REEDS PRIZE
Thomas Clement
Iwona Widurska
Geoff Rose
Monica Wiercigroch
D.M. (MIKE) HEDDEN GOLD MEDAL
Xiaoyi Yao
THE RELIGIOUS STUDIES PRIZE
Nathan Beresh
THE BASU MEDAL
Petar Bozovic
THE ABRAHAM ISAAC ROSENBERG
MEMORIAL PRIZE
Bianca Caramento
THE LITVAK MEDAL IN MARKETING
Taylor Biggin
THE GRACE SENRA-FONTES MEMORIAL PRIZE
Alexandra Oliver
THE R.J. SPENCE MEMORIAL MEDAL
Xiaoyi Yao
THE SHELL CANADA PRIZES IN ENGINEERING
AND MANAGEMENT
Matthew Feige
Michael Zamboni
Michael Popovich
Wednesday June 15, 2016: 2:30 p.m., Great Hall, Hamilton Place 11
HONORARY DEGREES
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Business
Peter Palese, Doctor of Science
John Levy, Doctor of Laws
Peter Palese established the first genetic maps for
influenza A, B and C viruses; identified the function
of several viral genes; defined the mechanism of
neuraminidase inhibitors, which are now FDA approved
antivirals, and pioneered the field of reverse genetics
for negative-strand RNA viruses.
He and his colleagues have reconstructed in the laboratory the extinct 1918 pandemic
influenza virus and studied it extensively. Most recently, Palese in collaboration
with several colleagues works on developing a universal influenza virus vaccine
which should give long-lasting protective immunity against seasonal as well as
pandemic influenza viruses.
A Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology at the Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, Palese has produced more than 370
scholarly publications and serves on the editorial board for Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences. He has also served as president of both the Harvey
Society and the American Society of Virology. He holds a number of patents on viral
vaccines and antivirals, some of which he has helped bring to market.
Palese is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy
of Medicine, and he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He
is also a Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the German Academy
of Sciences Leopoldina. He has received the Robert Koch Prize, the Wilhelm Exner
Medal, the European Virology Award, the Sanofi-Institut Pasteur Award, and the
Beijerinck Virology Prize from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Educated as a lawyer, John Levy has built his career in
cable television and digital media. He currently serves
as chairman and chief executive officer of theScore, Inc.
Levy worked with Western Co-Axial, the cable company
founded by his father, and assumed leadership of the
company in 1985 after his father’s retirement. That transition began a period of
dramatic growth for Western Co-Axial which became Cableworks Communications
and evolved into one of the 10 largest cable television distributors in the country.
In 1994, as all-sports networks were establishing themselves in Canada, Levy
launched Sportscope, an alpha-numeric cable channel that provided sports scores
and statistics. Levy later transformed Sportscope into Headline Sports which
offered a more complete range of programming in addition to scores and stats. By
2012, Headline Sports was in 6.6 million homes as theScore Television Network,
part of Score Media. That year, Levy sold the television side of the company to
Rogers Media while continuing to run the company’s digital and mobile assets
through theScore, Inc.
Levy and theScore have been active advisors and partners to McMaster’s DeGroote
School of Business, serving as founding sponsors in the launch of the school’s EMBA
in Digital Transformation.
School of Nursing and Medical Radiation Sciences Program
Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes, Doctor of Science
Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes is a professor at the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing where she has served as
director of the college twice. She chaired the Pan American Network of WHO Collaborating Centres for Nursing Development and was
president of the Commission of Accreditation of Magazines for the USP Support Program for Periodical Scientific Publications. She also
served as secretary general of the Global Network of Nursing Midwifery for seven years.
A prolific researcher whose work in English, Spanish and Portuguese influences a number of aspects of nursing, Costa Mendes serves as the
editor of the Latin American Journal of Nursing. She is a member of the editorial board for Nursing Ethics, the journal of the International Center for Ethics in Nursing.
For the last decade, Costa Mendes has been director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Health Development Nursing Research. She has also
played key roles with the Telenursing Network Advisory Group of the International Council of Nurses (ICN), the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth and
the General Council of the School of Nursing at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She was the president of the Rho Upsilon Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International
Honor Society of Nursing and has been a member of the Academy of Sciences of Ribeirão Preto since 2006.
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Faculty of Social Sciences
HONORARY DEGREES (CONTINUED…)
Faculty of Humanities and Arts & Science Program
Barry Lord, Doctor of Laws
Gail Lord, Doctor of Laws
Barry Lord and Gail Dexter Lord co-founded Lord Cultural Resources in 1981 and in the decades since have
established themselves as the world’s leading museum, gallery and historic site planners.
Dexter Lord has been an art critic, feature writer and commentator for national print and broadcast media while
helping to develop interdisciplinary programs in film and photographic arts at Ryerson University. She is a frequent presenter at the American Association of Museums,
the British Museums Association and the International Council of Museums. Lord began curating exhibitions on a freelance basis for Canadian and American galleries
after serving as a curator, education officer and director at several art galleries and museums in Canada. He has planned and managed cultural and heritage projects
involving everything from marine archaeology to industrial technology to heritage villages.
Individually, as partners or with a third collaborator, Lord and Dexter Lord have edited and written several key works in the field including Planning Our Museums; The
Manual of Museum Management; The Manual of Museum Exhibitions; The Manual of Museum Learning; Art & Energy; and Artists, Patrons, and the Public: Why Culture
Changes. Dexter Lord was appointed an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de France and has received both the ICOM Canada International Achievement Award
and an Award of Merit for Lifetime Achievement in the Museum Field in Ontario.
Faculty of Social Sciences (Morning Ceremony)
Faculty of Social Sciences (Afternoon Ceremony)
Richard W. Hill, Sr., Doctor of Laws
Steve Paikin, Doctor of Laws
A member of the Beaver Clan of the Tuscarora Nation
and a leading community-based knowledge keeper and
researcher at Six Nations of the Grand River, Richard
(Hayadaha) W. Hill Sr. has contributed immensely to
the resurgence of Hodinöhsö:ni’ Indigenous Knowledge
at the local reserve, international and global levels. As a practicing artist, cultural
historian, public intellectual, teaching elder, mentor, researcher, community leader,
museum curator, art historian, speaker and lecturer, Hill has also been an active leader
in the multi-decade campaign to repatriate wampum to the original Hodinöhsö:ni’
owners and makers. This process and Hill’s contributions to it have been central
to regenerating what people of the Six Nations Confederacy call the “good mind”
within and among Six Nations community members, Iroquoian peoples and their
neighbours; among Indigenous and federal, provincial and state governments and
among academic institutions and community-based researchers and knowledge
holders.
Hill, who has studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and pursued graduate work in
Native American history at the University at Buffalo, is the senior project coordinator
at the Deyohahá:ge: Indigenous Knowledge Centre at Six Nations Polytechnic.
Steve Paikin has been the anchor of TVO’s flagship
current affairs program The Agenda with Steve Paikin
since 2006. He was previously an anchor and Queen’s
Park correspondent for CBLT, host of a daily news
program on CBC Newsworld and a reporter with a
variety of media outlets including CHFI and the Hamilton Spectator.
Paikin’s tenure at TVO began in 1992 as the host of the politics-focused series
Between the Lines. He also co-created and hosted the Queen’s Park magazine
Fourth Reading and the weekly foreign affairs show Diplomatic Immunity. His
co-hosting duties also included Studio 2. Paikin has moderated six party leader
election debates – in the 2006, 2008 and 2011 federal elections and in the 2007,
2011 and 2014 elections in Ontario.
Paikin is an active and accomplished producer of feature-length documentaries
including Return to the Warsaw Ghetto which won the Silver Screen Award at the
U.S. International Film and Video Festival as well as awards at the Yorkton Film
Festival in Saskatchewan and at the Shanghai Film Festival. His other producing
credits include A Main Street Man; Balkan Madness; Teachers, Tories and Turmoil;
and Chairman of the Board: The Life and Death of John Robarts.
Paikin is the chancellor of Laurentian University and a distinguished visiting professor
at Ryerson University. He is an officer of the Order of Canada and a member of
the Order of Ontario.
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HONORARY DEGREES (CONTINUED…)
Faculty of Science (Morning Ceremony)
Faculty of Science (Afternoon Ceremony)
Martin Manning, Doctor of Science
Chil-Yong Kang, Doctor of Science
Martin Manning began his career as a theoretical
nuclear physicist working in Canada, the United
Kingdom and New Zealand before becoming engaged
in atmospheric and climate change science long before
climate change was a well-known global issue. His
specific research interests have included greenhouse gases and atmospheric chemistry.
Manning led investigations at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric
Research – a New Zealand crown institute – exploring atmospheric chemistry and
the carbon cycle. He also represented New Zealand on the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC). Manning spent five years in Colorado as director of the
IPCC Working Group I Technical Support Unit that produced the Fourth Assessment
Report on climate change for governments, leading up to the IPCC being awarded
– along with Al Gore – the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Since 2007, Manning has been a professor of climate change at Victoria University
of Wellington, New Zealand where he established the interdisciplinary New
Zealand Climate Change Research Institute. The institute is designed to build better
interactions among science, policy and societal factors on climate change issues.
Manning has produced more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals and been
an author and review editor on several major IPCC reports. In 2008, he became an
officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to climate change science.
Kang’s research in molecular virology includes the development of viral-specific
antiviral therapeutic agents and vaccines against human viral diseases including
AIDS and hepatitis. He holds nine international biotechnology patents covering
more than 70 countries. He serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Virology, the
Journal of Infectious Diseases, Virus Research, Virology, the Journal of Biological
Chemistry and the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Kang has received numerous prizes for his work including the Sahng-Huh Cultural
Grand Prize in Academia, the Gold Medal for Ilchun Lecture, the Ho-Am Prize in
Medicine and the Order of Korea in Science and Technology. He has also been
presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award from Western University, the Award
of Excellence of the University of Ottawa and the McMaster University Distinguished
Alumni Award. He was a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
in 2012 and received the Scientist of the Year Award from the President of the Korean
Federation of Science and Technology in 2014. Kang is a fellow of the Royal Society
of Canada and an elected member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology.
Faculty of Engineering (Morning Ceremony)
Faculty of Engineering (Afternoon Ceremony)
Gordon Huang, Doctor of Science
Maria Klawe, Doctor of Science
Gordon Huang is a professor in the Environmental Systems
Engineering Program at the University of Regina, the holder
of a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Energy and Environment
and a pioneer in the theory, methodology and application
of environmental systems analysis. His work influences
environmental practice and policy for corporations and governments worldwide, including
through the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) which has introduced Huang’s
interval-fuzzy multiobjective programming (IFMOP) model to countries around the world.
He helped inaugurate an entirely new discipline, inexact environmental systems analysis,
and he has become the world’s most-cited expert on environmental risk.
Huang has a strong global presence, having served as president of the International
Society for Environmental Information Sciences for two terms. He is editor-in-chief
for two international journals, an editorial board member for more than ten others
and a panel member for more than 20 national or international organizations. In
2004, the International Society for Environmental Information Science convened
a special panel to discuss Huang’s research and six years later the International
Conference on Ecological Informatics & Ecosystem Conservation held a similar session.
Huang is currently leading an international research consortium to develop an integrated
simulation-based multi-uncertainty optimization (SMUO) system for analyzing a
variety of watershed environmental systems under changing climatic conditions.
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Chil-Yong (Yong) Kang is a molecular virologist and
professor of virology in the Department of Microbiology
and Immunology at the Schulich School of Medicine
and Dentistry at Western University. Previously, he had
served as the dean of the Faculty of Science.
Maria Klawe has been president of Harvey Mudd
College since 2006. A renowned computer scientist,
she had previously served as dean of engineering and
professor of computer science at Princeton University
and before that held multiple leadership positions at the
University of British Columbia. Klawe also spent a number of years in the private
sector with IBM Research. She is a former member of the boards of directors of
Microsoft Corporation and Broadcom Corporation.
Klawe has made significant research contributions in several areas of mathematics
and computer science including functional analysis, discrete mathematics, theoretical
computer science, human-computer interaction, gender issues in information technology
and interactive-multimedia for mathematics education. She is a fellow of the American
Academy of Arts & Sciences, a trustee for the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
in Berkeley and a member of the Canada Excellence Research Chairs Selection Board.
An advocate of improved science and mathematics education at all levels, Klawe
is a member of the board of Math for America and of the advisory council for the
Computer Science Teachers Association. She also chairs the board of directors of
the nonprofit EdReports.org. She received the 2014 Women of Vision ABIE Award
for Leadership and was ranked number 17 on Fortune magazine’s 2014 list of the
World’s Greatest Leaders.
Faculty of Social Sciences
DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS
Faculty of Health Sciences
Dr. Gerard Wright
Professor, Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences
Director, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious
Disease Research
Gerry Wright is a global leader in the study of bacterial
and fungal antimicrobial resistance. He coined the
term antibiotic resistome to describe pre-existing antibiotic resistance elements,
establishing a novel view of antibiotic resistance. He is the developer of the
Comprehensive Antimicrobial Resistance Database and co-founder of Canada’s
first academia-based high throughput screening facility.
The director of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research,
Wright has earned three consecutive Canada Research Chair appointments and was
the youngest person to serve as chair of McMaster’s Department of Biochemistry.
Wright is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the American Academy of
Microbiology whose list of honours includes the Killam Research Fellowship, the
Premier’s Research Excellence Award and the Canadian Society of Microbiologists
Murray Award for lifetime achievement.
School of Nursing and Medical Radiation Sciences
Program Ceremony
Dr. Andrea Baumann
Associate Vice-President, Global Health
The associate vice-president (global health) for
the Faculty of Health Sciences, Andrea Baumann’s
international experience includes serving as co-director
of a project developing women health professionals in Pakistan and guiding the
development of the University Sharjah College of Health Sciences.
Previously, as associate dean of the School of Nursing, Baumann played a central
role in developing Ontario’s first nurse practitioner program, designing the nursing
graduate program and leading the creation of the award-winning Master of Science in
Global Health program. She also worked to ensure that McMaster would be named
a Pan-American/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Collaborating Centre.
Baumann is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the American
Academy of Nursing as well as a recipient of the Canadian Association of Schools
of Nursing Award for Research.
School of Nursing and Medical Radiation Sciences
Program Ceremony
Faculty of Humanities and Arts & Science Program
Ceremony
Dr. Salim Yusuf
Professor, Cardiology, Department of Medicine;
Director, Population Health Research Institute
Dr. Lorraine York
Professor, Department of English and Cultural Studies
Salim Yusuf is the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario
Research Chair and a global leader in evidence-based
cardiology. He founded the Population Health Research Institute, one of the top ten
research centres globally, and his own scholarly work has been cited more than 114,000
times. In 2011, he was the second-most cited scientist globally and in 2014 was named
the most influential Canadian scientist by the Globe and Mail.
Yusuf has received more than 50 major awards including the Lifetime Research
Achievement Award of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, the European Society
of Cardiology Gold Medal and the American Heart Association Clinical Research
Award. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, an officer of the Order of
Canada and a member of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
Wednesday June 15, 2016: 2:30 p.m., Great Hall, Hamilton Place The Senator William McMaster Chair in Canadian
Literature and Culture, Lorraine York has helped
establish the critical foundation for contemporary
Canadian literature through her work on writers including Alice Munro, Timothy
Findley and Michael Ondaatje. A pioneer in Canadian celebrity studies, her 2007
book Literary Celebrity in Canada was a finalist for the Raymond Klibansky Prize
while Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity was nominated for the
Gabrielle Roy Prize for the best work of Canadian literary criticism.
York has won the MSU Teaching Award for the Faculty of Humanities and twice
earned the President’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision. She has served
on the McMaster University Senate, chaired the Graduate Studies Committee and
is the co-director of McMaster’s Centre for Community-Engaged Narrative Arts. She
was also nominated as an external reviewer for 10 Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council (SSHRC) Standard Research Grants, and has served three years
as SSHRC SRG Committee Chair.
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DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS (CONTINUED…)
Faculty of Science (Afternoon Ceremony)
Dr. Walter Craig
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Walter Craig is a professor of mathematics and the Tier I Canada Research Chair of Mathematical Analysis and its Applications. He is an
applied mathematician whose research focuses on the mathematical physics of waves, including tsunami and rogue wave modeling. Craig
has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, has held visiting professorships at many institutions internationally, and has
served on numerous editorial boards, including seven currently.
Craig has served as director of the Fields Institute, where he is currently a member of the Board of Directors. He has been awarded Bantrell, Sloan and Killam research fellowships.
He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Mathematical Society, and the Fields Institute.
GOVERNOR GENERAL’S ACADEMIC MEDAL
PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO TEACHING & LEARNING (CONTINUED…)
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taught digital artist and mental health advocate. She is actively involved in campus McMaster scholarships and NSERC awards, and acted as a teaching assistant.
clubs as the president of McMaster’s Design & Art Association and an executive of
COPE, a student mental health initiative. In the community, she strives to make a Aaron further augmented his McMaster experience by participating in intramural
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and Alzheimer Society of Hamilton. These experiences have inspired Haichao to McMaster Hillel. In his spare time he enjoys playing sports, cooking, and reading.
pursue a career in psychiatry, and she is excited to continue her education at the Next year he will pursue graduate studies in Physics.
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Aaron would like to share his achievement with his family, friends, professors, and
the iSci program, whose support enabled his success.
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Graduates who have pre-ordered degree frames and gifts from the McMaster Campus Store website may pick up their
items in Wentworth Room A when the ceremony is complete and their gowns have been returned. Your degree will be
framed in this location.
Faculty of Social Sciences
For those who have purchased a degree frame today before the ceremony, or would like to purchase a degree frame
after the ceremony please visit the main lobby where the Campus Store offers a wide selection of Official McMaster
PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS
TO TEACHING & LEARNING
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Business
Dr. Anthony J. Levinson
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry &
Behavioural Neurosciences
John R. Evans Chair in Health Sciences Educational
Research and Instructional Development
Dr. Milena Head
Professor, Information Systems
Wayne C. Fox Chair in Business Innovation
Dr. Anthony J. Levinson is an Associate Professor
and the Director, Division of e-Learning Innovation for the Michael G. DeGroote
School of Medicine at McMaster University. He obtained his BA from McGill
with Joint Honours in English Literature and Philosophy; an MA in Critical Theory
from the University of Sussex; and an MSc in Health Research Methodology from
McMaster. As the John R. Evans Chair in Health Sciences Educational Research
and Instructional Development, he focuses on the integration and testing of new
learning technologies to improve health education and training for health care
professionals and the public. He contributed to the design of the medical school
COMPASS curriculum, and teaches extensively across the spectrum of medical
education. Dr. Levinson maintains an active clinical practice in the area of medical
psychiatry with a specialization in complex neuropsychiatric disorders and mental
health issues among the medically ill.
Dr. Milena Head is a Professor of Information Systems
and the Wayne C. Fox Chair in Business Innovation at
the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University.
Her research interests relate to human-computer interaction, technology use and
misuse, and culture/gender/age impacts on interface design. She has published
over 100 papers in academic journals, books and conferences and has been the
recipient of several prestigious research and teaching awards. At the DeGroote
School of Business, Dr. Head’s leadership has been instrumental in the development
of several new programs (many of which are interfaculty and multi-institutional) and
learning spaces (such as the Ron Joyce Centre in Burlington). She has served as the
School’s Associate Dean, MBA Director and currently is serving as Academic Director
for the new blended learning EMBA program. Dr. Head is truly passionate about
delivering experiential, multidisciplinary and transformative learning experiences
that motivate and inspire her students. She is a champion and devoted coach
for MBA students that compete at national and international case competitions.
Faculty of Social Sciences (Afternoon Ceremony)
Faculty of Engineering (Morning Ceremony)
Dr. Philippa Carter
Teaching Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Dr. Dan Centea
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering
Philippa Carter is Teaching Professor in the Department
of Religious Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences. She
received her B.A. (Hons.) in Religious Studies from the
University of Toronto (Trinity, 1984) and completed her
M.A. (1986) and Ph.D. (1992) in Religious Studies at McMaster under the supervision
of Dr. Stephen Westerholm. Philippa has taught undergraduate courses part-time and
on permanent contracts at several universities in Southern Ontario but primarily at
McMaster since 1991. In 2012 she was appointed teaching professor in Religious
Studies and achieved permanence in 2015. Philippa teaches in the Department’s
undergraduate program in the fields of Religion and Culture and also Biblical Studies.
She recently learned that her 2015/16 Impact Fellowship with the McMaster Institute
for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching and Learning (MIIETL) has been renewed
for 2016/17. She is still figuring out how to teach and like her mentor, Dr. David
Kinsley (d. 2000), is grateful for all that she learns from her students.
Wednesday June 15, 2016: 2:30 p.m., Great Hall, Hamilton Place Dr. Centea has taken on a variety of roles including Chair
of the Automotive and Vehicle Technology, a Bachelor of
Technology (B.Tech.) program that he was instrumental
in designing in partnership with Mohawk College. He
began his academic career at McMaster in 1999 as sessional instructor, and has
gone on to become an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineering. During
these years he has developed 27 new courses in the B.Tech. program, and delivered
them 142 times with excellent student feedback. Dr. Centea is an outstanding
teacher, an excellent researcher and an educational leader. He is commitment to
the success of his students and the B.Tech. program as a whole.
Dr. Centea is also a research fellow at MIIETL where he has researched and published
his work on teaching methods. His pedagogical research aims to enhance student
learning. He is a great supporter of various experiential learning approaches. As a
great supporter of Problem Based Learning, he was the first faculty who introduced
this teaching and learning approach in the School of Engineering Technology.
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PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO TEACHING & LEARNING (CONTINUED…)
Faculty of Engineering (Afternoon Ceremony)
Dr. Gregory Wohl
Associate Professor/Associate Chair (Undergraduate), Department of Mechanical Engineering
Greg Wohl is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a Member of the McMaster School of Biomedical
Engineering. He teaches courses in the area of biomechanics to undergraduate Mechanical Engineering students, and injury mechanics in
graduate courses. He has also led the development of online multimedia content to help undergraduate Mechanical Engineering students
prepare for hands-on lab activities. He thinks that the best way for instructors to engage students and facilitate their learning is to share
their enthusiasm and excitement for the content and to help the students to see the importance of the lesson content in real life applications.
PRESIDENT’S AWARD OF EXCELLENCE IN STUDENT LEADERSHIP
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Social Sciences (Morning Ceremony)
Julia Woo
Audrey Tan
For two years Julia Woo has served as the co-president
of McMaster Smiling Over Sickness, a MSU club
dedicated to volunteering and fundraising for sick
children and their families in the Hamilton community.
This year, she also served as the VP External of COPE, an
organization aimed at reducing the stigma surrounding mental illness. In this role,
Julia helped to establish a new volunteering program in collaboration with Indwell,
a local charity that provides affordable housing for individuals with mental illness.
Julia has also volunteered for various local organizations such as Empowerment
Squared, Dignitas Youth, and McMaster Children’s Hospital. Lastly, Julia has been
involved in numerous research projects at McMaster University aimed at serving
the healthcare needs of the Hamilton community. After graduation, Julia hopes to
use the skills and lessons she has learned from her undergraduate career in order
to become a clinician-scientist in the field of psychiatry.
Audrey Tan’s endeavours and involvement within and
beyond the McMaster community speak to her dedication
to leading positive change. Audrey’s work as a Research
Assistant and Teaching Assistant in the Faculty of Social
Sciences, a note-taker with Student Accessibility Services,
and a volunteer with the McMaster Campus Ministries Council and the Hamilton Council
on Aging has been recognized by awards such as the Honour M Award and the Albert
Lager Prize for Student Initiative. She has received 2 Undergraduate Student Research
Awards and is currently working to publish 3 papers on representations of aging in
children’s literature. The 2015-2016 President of the Health, Aging and Society Student
Association, Audrey has dedicated countless hours to organizing events and initiatives
for her Department. In the fall of 2014 Audrey founded All That Glitters, a gently used
accessories sale that has raised over $4,000 in support of two Indigenous women’s
organizations and the purchasing of a memorial in honour of missing and murdered
Indigenous women. With the goal of working as a policy analyst for the World Health
Organization, Audrey will be attending the University of Oxford this fall.
Faculty of Science (Afternoon Ceremony)
Faculty of Science (Afternoon Ceremony)
Jacob Brodka
Nishan Zewge-Abubaker
Jacob Brodka has dedicated his time at McMaster
to improving the undergraduate student experience.
Notably, Jacob has served in various roles with the
McMaster Students Union. For many years he helped run
both the Creating Leadership Amongst Youth and Horizons Leadership conferences. In 2013,
Jacob was elected to the Student Representative Assembly and as Services Commissioner
of the organization. In 2014, Jacob was elected Vice-President (Administration), where he
went on to influence and lead countless projects in the McMaster and Hamilton community.
This year, Jacob conducted research for the Provost’s Task Force on Future Directions
of Faculties, competed in the Synapse Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Competition
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and served as a Communications and Logistics Coordinator for the fifth Big Ideas
Better Cities research showcase. He is currently developing a business case for citizen
Nishan is completing her undergraduate degree in
Honours Life Sciences. Throughout her university career,
she has built up a strong foundation of academic and
non-academic experiences ranging from mentorship and
transition, to engaging in community-based research
and advocacy. Most notable of her interests is her passion for social justice and
equity. As the Director of MSU Diversity Services, Nishan worked with students
and university administration to implement peer-led trainings, develop policy, and
build community throughout the university. Nishan has also been nominated for the
YWCA Young Woman of Distinction Award this year. Beyond her extra-curricular
interests, Nishan enjoys riding her SoBi bicycle throughout Hamilton frequently,
and has a slightly unhealthy interest in eating sushi. Faculty of Social Sciences
for her Department. In the fall of 2014 Audrey founded All That Glitters, a gently used
accessories sale that has raised over $4,000 in support of two Indigenous women’s
organizations and the purchasing of a memorial in honour of missing and murdered
Indigenous women.
With the goal(CONTINUED…)
of working as a policy analyst for the World Health
PRESIDENT’S AWARD OF EXCELLENCE IN STUDENT
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the healthcare needs of the Hamilton community. After graduation, Julia hopes to
use the skills and lessons she has learned from her undergraduate career in order
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Faculty of Science (Afternoon Ceremony)
Faculty of Science (Afternoon Ceremony)
Jacob Brodka
Nishan Zewge-Abubaker
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to improving the undergraduate student experience.
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Honours Life Sciences. Throughout her university career,
she has built up a strong foundation of academic and
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was distinguished as the top presenter at the 2015 Canadian Undergraduate Physics
Conference in the Quantum Condensed Matter category. He also won numerous
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clubs as the president of McMaster’s Design & Art Association and an executive of
COPE, a student mental health initiative. In the community, she strives to make a Aaron further augmented his McMaster experience by participating in intramural
difference through volunteering at Hamilton Health Sciences, Brain Injury Services, sports, volunteering with Hamilton Out of the Cold, and being an active member of
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Social Sciences (Morning Ceremony)
Nathan Beresh
Social Sciences (Afternoon Ceremony)
Nathan Beresh
Science (Morning Ceremony)
Aadil Ali
Science (Afternoon Ceremony)
Lauren Smith
Engineering (Morning Ceremony)
Jonathon Tonietto
Engineering (Afternoon Ceremony)
Michael Popovich
VALEDICTORIANS
Graduates who have pre-ordered degree frames and gifts from the McMaster Campus Store website may pick up their
items in Wentworth Room A when the ceremony is complete and their gowns have been returned. Your degree will be
framed in this location.
For those who have purchased a degree frame today before the ceremony, or would like to purchase a degree frame
after the ceremony please visit the main lobby where the Campus Store offers a wide selection of Official McMaster
University degree frames, crested giftware and limited edition Class of 2016 merchandise.
A representative from Josten’s will be on hand before and after all graduation ceremonies to help size and design the
perfect ring for your graduate. Complementary degree framing also takes place in the lobby area.
Graduates who have pre-ordered degree frames and gifts from the McMaster Campus Store website may pick up
itemsPlace
in the Molson Canadian Studio (the room in which academic regalia is distributed). If your gown has been
Wednesday June 15, 2016: 2:30 p.m., Great Hall,their
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returned and you have collected your degree, your degree can be framed at this location.
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