Recent Faculty and Student Awards & Distinctions

At Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, will be conferred on Dr. John Willinsky, Friday, October 9, 2009 at the 2:30 pm ceremony.

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Graduate Student Summer Awards Competition Winners: Laura Nimmon, PhD/LITR, for the Joseph Katz Memorial Scholarship, and Reg D'Silva, PhD/LITR, for the Jimmar Memoral Scholarship in Education.

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Dean of Education Scholarship winners: PhD students David Beare, and Lauryn Oates.

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2009 HSS Seed Grant recipient: Dr. George Belliveau, awarded for Exploring the potential of research-based theatre in the field of education.

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2009 HSS Seed Grant recipient: Dr. John Willinsky, awarded for Queer Futures: Disjuncture and Difference, and the Precarious Mobilities of Breast Cancer Knowledge.

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LLED is delighted to announce that Dr. Jan Hare was recently awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. Jan started in LLED in 2002 as Assistant Professor, and her areas of interest are Aboriginal education, literacy and mobility, and early childhood education.