Five hundred - Registrar

ORDER OF EXERCISES
Musical Prelude
The Graduand Procession
The Academic Procession
The Chancellor’s Procession
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Five hundred
and forty-six
for conferring degrees
The Provost's Welcome
Dr. David Wilkinson
The Chancellor’s Welcome
Dr. Suzanne B. Labarge
The Conferring of the Degree Doctor of Science
honoris causa on George Roter
Citation: Dr. Patrick Deane
The Convocation Address
Dr. George Roter
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.
The Conferring of Degrees In-Course
Musical Interlude
The Presentation of the Graduates
The Valedictory Address
Sean Mercer
Awards of the 2014-2015 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
Follow @McMasterConvo on Twitter and tweet with #MacGrad2015
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................................................................................. Emily Rebekah Taub
Immediately following Convocation, graduates and their guests are invited for a reception in Hamilton Convention Centre, Wentworth Room C.
Friday June 12, 2015: 9:30 a.m., Great Hall, Hamilton Place 1
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.
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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, I offer you sincere congratulations for having successfully earned
your degree. In addition to growing through the challenges of obtaining your formal education, I 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. I welcome you to the next step in a rewarding and dynamic
relationship with our world-class university.
Sandra Stephenson ‘78
President, McMaster Alumni Association
Friday June 12, 2015: 9:30 a.m., Great Hall, Hamilton Place 3
SUZANNE B. LABARGE
Chancellor, McMaster University
After earning her BA in Economics from McMaster and an MBA from Harvard
Business School, Suzanne Labarge joined the Royal Bank in 1971. She became an
executive officer eight years later. In 1985, she left the private sector to become
assistant auditor-general for the Government of Canada. In that capacity, she
made notable advances in the field of government risk management and served as
a member of the BIS Committee for Bank Supervision during the time it finalized
the Basel I regulatory capital regime. She joined the Office of the Superintendent
of Financial Institutions Canada in 1987 as deputy superintendent, policy. She also
served as deputy superintendent, deposit-taking institutions.
Labarge returned to Royal Bank in 1995 as executive vice-president, corporate
treasury and assumed global responsibility for balance sheet management,
funding, liquidity and market risk management. She retired as chief risk officer
and vice-chairman of RBC Financial Group in 2004.
An active corporate director, Labarge is a member of the board of directors and
chair of the audit committee of Coca-Cola Enterprises, a member of the supervisory
board and risk committee of Deutsche Bank and a member of the Board of XL
Group Plc. Previously, she has been a director and chair of the audit committee of
Novelis Inc. and a member of the board of the Bank of China, Beijing. Labarge is
also an engaged volunteer, particularly at McMaster where she has served on the
University’s Board of Governors and the cabinet of The Campaign for McMaster
University. Her McMaster-based philanthropy created the Raymond and Margaret
Labarge Chair in Research and Knowledge Application for Optimal Aging as well
as the multi-faceted Labarge Optimal Aging Initiative. She is also a director of the
Ontario Brain Institute.
McMaster granted Labarge an honorary Doctor of Letters in 2011. She began her
service as the University’s chancellor on September 1, 2013.
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PRESENTERS OF DEGREES, DIPLOMAS, AND CERTIFICATES
Dr. Ishwar Puri
Dean, Faculty of Engineering
Dr. Kenneth Coley
Associate Dean (Academic),
Faculty of Engineering
Dr. Michael Thompson
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies
(Engineering)
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Roozbeh Mafi
Thesis:
Novel Guar Crosslinkers for Improved Ophthalmic Solutions
Raghda Abo-Hasswa
Thesis:
Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Approaches to
Assessing Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI) in Children
Madhuja Gupta
Thesis:
Role of Myocardin Related Transcription Factor-A in
Transcription Growth Factor Beta-Induced Epithelial to
Mesenchymal Transition of Lens Epithelial Cells
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Ehsan Haghighat
Thesis:
Modeling of Damage Propagation in Cohesive-Frictional Materials
Shu-Chi Yeh
Thesis:
Fluorescence of PDT Photosensitizers for Quantitative Cancer
Diagnosis and Treatment Monitoring
Peyman Moghimi Osgooei
Thesis:
Advanced Numerical Modeling of Fiber-Reinforced Elastomeric
Isolators (FREIs)
Ahmed Farghal Tawfic
Thesis:
Metal Ion Separation Using Electrically Switched Ion Exchange
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Zhen Hu
Thesis:
Eric William Tiedje
Thesis:
Characterization and Numerical Modelling of Frost Heave
Tailoring Cellulose Nanocrystal, Polymer and Surfactant
Interactions for Gels, Emulsions, and Foams
Sana Jahanshahi Anbuhi
Thesis:
Development of Ready-to-Use Biosensors for Diagnostics and
Biosensing
MATERIALS ENGINEERING
Morteza Ghasri Khouzani
Thesis:
Homogenous and Carbon Graded High Manganese Steels
Yaser Khojasteh Salkuyeh
Thesis:
New Polygeneration Processes for Power Generation
MASTER OF SCIENCE
MATERIALS SCIENCE
Vicky Vuong
Friday June 12, 2015: 9:30 a.m., Great Hall, Hamilton Place 5
MASTER OF APPLIED SCIENCE
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
CIVIL ENGINEERING
MATERIALS ENGINEERING
Jun Yang
Kyle William Lefebvre
Sahar Mokhtari
Kushlani Niranjalie Wijesekera
Joseph Asztalos
Amitabh Dar
Wade Tyler Alan Genders
Theresa Ann Lubianetzky
Zachary Cano
Jacek Dabrowski
Abrar Sidahmed
Catherine Joy Silva
Heather Melissa Smith
Fei Yang
MASTER OF ENGINEERING
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Teng Gao
Qi Wang
Teng Gao
Qi Wang
MASTER OF ENGINEERING ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATION
Majed Saeed Aldosari
Majed Saeed Aldosari
Mashhoor BakurMashhoor
Baeshen Bakur Baeshen
Peter Atef Wadie
Peter
BaslAtef Wadie Basl
Milad Fallah Milad Fallah
Saif Ul Haq Saif Ul Haq
Hussam Haroun
Hussam Haroun
Nicholas Ivanecky
Nicholas Ivanecky
Eric Jones Eric Jones
MustafaMustafa
Q. Naji Q. Naji
Sherif Olama
Sherif Olama
DouglasDouglas
Campbell
Campbell
PearsonPearson
Anjali Yogesh
Anjali Yogesh
Popat Popat
Denzil
Denzil
Samad
Samad
Chetan
Chetan
PaulPaul
Singh
Singh
Ala Ala
Khalid
Khalid
Soliman
Soliman
Hooman
Hooman
Zamani
Zamani
MASTER OF ENGINEERING DESIGN
Jordan Mansfield
Nishit Patel
Jordan Mansfield
Nishit Patel
MASTER OF ENGINEERING IN PUBLIC POLICY
Ala Addin Mustafa Bizanti Ala Addin Mustafa
Shu Liu
Bizanti
Shu
Yumeng
Liu Yang
Yumeng Yang
MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION
Sina Afshani
Faris Al-Shawaf
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Sina Afshani
Faris Al-Shawaf
Ashwaq Albaqami
Ashwaq Albaqami Abdulrahman Ahmed Alkhodair
Abdulrahman Ahmed Alkhodair
Moudi Mansour Alghashyan
Moudi Mansour Alghashyan
Abdallah Zein Al Abdin Abdallah Zein Al Abdin
Faculty of Engineering
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
★Kalia Akkad..............................................Chemical
Ehab Al Sadi.....................................................Civil
★Ahmad Ali........................................................Civil
★Shane Arnold...................................................Civil
★Sahil Luqman Azeez.................................Chemical
Kevin Patrick Barrett........................................Civil
Brian Klaus Betts.............................................Civil
Cornelius John Byl...........................................Civil
Jacob Duncan Clark.........................................Civil
Steven James Di Pietro...................................Civil
Adrian Enio Di Sanza.......................................Civil
Andrew James Dittrick....................................Civil
Parminder Dod.................................................Civil
Kyle Thomas Dwyer.........................................Civil
★Nadwa Elbadri.................................................Civil
★Tyler Reginald Ellis...................................Chemical
Stefan Hajgato.................................................Civil
Yu Heng He.......................................................Civil
Nicholas Peter Hiemstra..................................Civil
Nicholas Leslie Higginson...............................Civil
Matthew Holland.............................................Civil
Nada Hosni..............................................Chemical
Brian James Jamieson...........................Materials
Scott Arthur Kruse...........................................Civil
★Qianchao Liang................................................Civil
Kaitlin Marianelli....................................Materials
★Corinne Elyse Mullen..............................Materials
Ehima Osazuwa........................................Chemical
★Thomas Oszustowicz................................Chemical
Jason Phillips...................................................Civil
Mustafa A Qassim...........................................Civil
William Christopher Rawlin.............................Civil
★Alexander Sciascetti........................................Civil
★Saif Naser Shaban...........................................Civil
Stephen Anthony Shutuc Kudyba............Chemical
Clement Sin......................................................Civil
★Iain Stuart Smith..............................................Civil
Graham Charles Spry...............................Chemical
★Vincent Anthony Stalteri..................................Civil
Mark Christopher Stanton...............................Civil
Peter John Montgomery Swallow...................Civil
★Jordan Seth Talker...........................................Civil
★Zaid Telegraph..................................................Civil
Gage William Thomson...................................Civil
★Cole Van De Ven...............................................Civil
★Michael Joseph Vaughan................................Civil
★Tu Vu.................................................................Civil
Adam Weatherbee...................................Chemical
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING & SOCIETY
Faizan Abbasi...........................................Chemical
Russul T Al-Rawi..............................................Civil
Muhammad Fahad Arshad.......................Chemical
Brandon Barliak................................................Civil
★Sarah Chiste.....................................................Civil
(Minor in Economics)
Sean Robert Jack Collins.................................Civil
(Minor in Economics)
Ian Alexander Currie........................................Civil
Danielle Marie De Rango.......................Materials
Colin Delsey.....................................................Civil
Michal Daniel Domagala.................................Civil
Philip Dykstra..........................................Materials
Zeyad Sameh El Nabolsy.........................Chemical
(Minor in Philosophy)
Grant W. Finlay................................................Civil
(Minor in Business)
Laura Rose Halleran.........................................Civil
Megan Arlene Patricia Hopkin.................Chemical
(Minor in Business)
Shannon Nicole Mason...........................Chemical
(Minor in Economics)
Daniel Connor McPhee...........................Materials
(Minor in Business)
Christopher Laurence John Pearson................Civil
(Minor in Geography and Earth Sciences)
Rani Philip...............................................Materials
Jennifer Lynn Prior...........................................Civil
(Minor in History)
Richard Reiche.........................................Chemical
(Minor in Business)
Piotr Smuczak...................................................Civil
Stephan Tran...........................................Materials
(Minor in Business)
Mario Alexander Velasquez Machado.....Chemical
Mehrzad Zonji..................................................Civil
(Minor in Economics)
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING
Salah Abdelrahman.................................Chemical
Karim Ahmed..........................................Materials
Syed Moeed Ahmed........................................Civil
Glory Aimufua..........................................Chemical
Farhad Akbari..........................................Materials
★Anas Al Atassi.................................................Civil
Mohamed Ali...........................................Chemical
Mohamed Tawfik Anys.....................................Civil
Aldrin Arquillano.....................................Materials
Kaitlyn Reilly Baggs.............................Chemical &
Bioengineering
Brittany Lynn Bailey.........................................Civil
Abishaike Balachandran..........................Chemical
Carlo Bien Bantug....................................Chemical
Justin Anthony Moura Barros..........................Civil
Vikram Bassan........................................Materials
★Jason Allan Beattie.........................................Civil
Jacob Stephen Bell..........................................Civil
Ian Don Blechta................................................Civil
Geoffrey Boddy................................................Civil
Ali Borohan.............................................Materials
Devon Bowie............................................Chemical
★Kimberly Anne Braches........................Chemical &
Bioengineering
Mitchell Louis Cataford...................................Civil
Alexander Cenedese........................................Civil
Friday June 12, 2015: 9:30 a.m., Great Hall, Hamilton Place Luke Chi-Yuen Chan................................Materials
(Minor in Psychology)
★Tala Khaled Chanati.........................................Civil
Rebecca Pik Kei Chu............................Chemical &
Bioengineering
Sarah Kristi Ciardullo...............................Chemical
John S. Curtis..........................................Materials
Rachel Elizabeth D’Agostino................Chemical &
Bioengineering
Jerus Jon D’Silva.....................................Chemical
Abdalla Darwech.....................................Chemical
Badal Sunil Davda............................................Civil
Devon Decraemer....................................Chemical
★ with distinction (achievement of a minimum Grade Point Average of 9.5/12)
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BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (CONTINUED…)
Andrew David Denes...............................Chemical
Mark Anthony Di Iorio..........................Chemical &
Bioengineering
★Helen Dorrington........ Chemical & Bioengineering
Abdullah Edah..........................................Chemical
Mohammad Eissa............................................Civil
Michael Angelo Elias.......................................Civil
★Miqdaad Fatakdawala.........................Chemical &
Bioengineering
Muhammad Danish Fazal........................Chemical
Sara Elizabeth Filice................................Materials
William James Fitzgerald................................Civil
Martino Gabra..................................................Civil
Mina Gerges............................................Chemical
Elizabeth Anne Gimpoli............................Chemical
Wyatt Johnathon Goodlet...............................Civil
Jessica-Lynn Graham.......................................Civil
Ryan James Gray.............................................Civil
Shabnam Hafid.........................................Chemical
Gabby Hamwi...........................................Chemical
Enjie He............................................................Civil
Patrick Heng............................................Materials
Chelsea Hiebert...............................................Civil
Dylan James House.................................Chemical
Esther Linda Hutten................................Materials
Brandon Mark Huzevka............................Chemical
Fahd Ilyas.................................................Chemical
Garrett Incze............................................Materials
(Minor in Economics)
Aaron James Inrig............................................Civil
Muhammad Irfan Ismail...........................Chemical
Seung Jeong....................................................Civil
Yunbo Jia.................................................Materials
(Minor in Economics)
Jonathan Parayil John.............................Chemical
Jeffery Jones...................................................Civil
Kajan Kaneshapillai.................................Chemical
Nilushi Christine Kariyawasam..............Materials
Haroon Khalid..........................................Chemical
★Mahmood H. Kharbut.......................................Civil
★Dennis Kinio............... Chemical & Bioengineering
Steven Kurevija................................................Civil
Keisha Lad........................................................Civil
★Haoxiang Lai............................................Chemical
Ji Yeong Lee.............................................Chemical
Lana Lee...................................................Chemical
Michael Lee.....................................................Civil
Nastassia Maria Rose Leheniuk..............Chemical
Onkabetse Lekgwere...............................Chemical
Joseph Lemieux.......................................Chemical
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Mateusz Lewandowski........................Chemical &
Bioengineering
★Difu Liang.........................................................Civil
Dane Alexander Epprecht Lianga....................Civil
Yifei Ma....................................................Chemical
★Alexander Joseph MacDonald........................Civil
Beshoy Tarek Malaty........................................Civil
★Nicole Mangiacotte.............................Chemical &
Bioengineering
Adam James Maybee..........................Chemical &
Bioengineering
★Michelle Jordon McDonald.................Chemical &
Bioengineering
Christopher Scott McLeod.......................Chemical
Mitchell Medak................................................Civil
Sean Colin Burgan Mercer...................Chemical &
Bioengineering
Weston Milligan........ Chemical & Bioengineering
Saeed Mobayed.......................................Chemical
Samir Janakkumar Modha.......................Chemical
Thabo Molotlhanyi...................................Chemical
Daniel Moreau.................................................Civil
Jarrett James Muir..........................................Civil
Arun Nagarajah................................................Civil
Scott James Nelson.........................................Civil
★Robin Karin Ng........... Chemical & Bioengineering
Iza Noor....................................................Chemical
Mia Angelica Jaramillo Ochea................Chemical
Richard Thomas Oegema.................................Civil
Shadai Carmen Oguntoye........................Chemical
Dylan Anthony Pascos.............................Chemical
Tyler Patten................ Chemical & Bioengineering
Victor Pawa.............................................Materials
★Kevin Pennings........... Chemical & Bioengineering
Aaron Frederick Pettifer...................................Civil
Ara Hagop Poladian.........................................Civil
Dikatso Ramatsela...................................Chemical
Ricardo Reuben Ramsawaksingh............Chemical
Sidra Anwar Rana...................................Materials
Niyomy Amenda Rasanayagam...........Chemical &
Bioengineering
Jaclyn Laura Ross....................................Chemical
Garrett James Russell.....................................Civil
Zain Samadmoten............................................Civil
Cephas Setlhoka......................................Chemical
Hassan Shahab........................................Chemical
Dillon Eric Sheppard................................Chemical
Daljit Singh......................................................Civil
Jeyabaleni Jeya Sivapatham...................Chemical
★ with distinction (achievement of a minimum Grade Point Average of 9.5/12)
Graham Thomas Smith........................Chemical &
Bioengineering
Vytautas Stasiulevicius............................Chemical
Jon Michael Steiginga............................Materials
Braden Craig Stephens...........................Materials
Brandon Ross Stevens............................Materials
Mackenzie Streutker........................................Civil
Zimin Sun.........................................................Civil
★Stephanie May Tan..........................................Civil
Qiushi Tang.......................................................Civil
Tze Ren Tang............................................Chemical
Mayurathan Thevathas........................Chemical &
Bioengineering
Julia Rosalie Tomlinson.......................Chemical &
Bioengineering
Carla Francesca Turco......................................Civil
★Matthew Aaron Turner.....................................Civil
Adam Hendrik Charles van Nood.....................Civil
Melissa Danielle Vandersluis..............Chemical &
Bioengineering
Mihir Ved.................................................Materials
Daniel Joseph Veloce..............................Chemical
Frederic Vimard.......................................Materials
Cameron Jon Wallar...............................Materials
Qiyun Wang......................................................Civil
Xinyu Wang.............................................Materials
Xuan Shi Wang................................................Civil
William Trevor John West...................Chemical &
Bioengineering
Mark James Westerink............................Chemical
Carolyn Marie Willems...........................Materials
David Wilson....................................................Civil
Long Fei Xiao....................................................Civil
Dayu Yan..................................................Chemical
Niranchan Yoganathan...........................Materials
(Minor in Economics)
Pengyi Yuan......................................................Civil
Wai Ho Yuen............................................Chemical
(Minor in Economics)
★Shawn Zaman..................................................Civil
Alexandre Justin Federick Zanesco.........Chemical
Wei Xia Zhan....................................................Civil
★Rihong Zhang...........................................Chemical
Runze Zhang.............................................Chemical
(Minor in Economics)
Guangyu Zhou.........................................Materials
Xiang Zhou...............................................Chemical
(Minor in Economics)
Min Zhu....................................................Chemical
Faculty of Engineering
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
Bahy Abd El Aziz................. Automotive & Vehicle
Technology
Farhan Ahmad....................................... Computing
Juan Alfonso.... Automotive & Vehicle Technology
★Andrew John Aran................................ Computing
Ekundayo Kelphin Ashwood........................Energy
Dmytro Babenko...........................................Energy
Jakob Henry Backstrom...............................Energy
Alexandru Barsan....................................... Process
Jeeven Kaur Basra...........................Biotechnology
★Navjot Bassi.....................................................Civil
Nuno Bento..................................................Energy
Aparna Bhatia..................................................Civil
★John Boerema..................................................Civil
★Milovan Borisavljevic......................Manufacturing
Derick John Boshell.....................................Energy
Christopher Francis Buis..... Automotive & Vehicle
Technology
Jonathan Michael Carcasole........... Automotive &
Vehicle Technology
Chang Jian Chen........................................ Process
Hao Chen.................................................... Process
★Michael Tak-Yuen Cheung..............Manufacturing
Mohammad Ali Chohan..................Manufacturing
★Yahu Choudhary..............................Manufacturing
Christopher Chung.............. Automotive & Vehicle
Technology
★Mark Gerry Coenen......................................Energy
Carson Coles.............................................. Process
Colin William Comiskey............................. Process
Cosimo Commisso................................. Computing
Andrew Cullen...................................... Computing
Mark William Currie.................................. Process
★Calvin Anson Gerard Curry..............Manufacturing
Rioch D’lyma.... Automotive & Vehicle Technology
Graeme Alexandre Peter Danahy.... Automotive &
Vehicle Technology
Robert Patrick Dancy........... Automotive & Vehicle
Technology
Modestas Dargis........................................ Process
★Jose Manuel Darocha..................................Energy
Eman Dawod......................................... Computing
Christian De Rose............................................Civil
Adam Dello................................................ Process
Sonu Dhanjal....................................Biotechnology
★Anthony Di Giovanni....................................Energy
★Todd Dickinson.................................Biotechnology
★Zachery Dickson...............................Biotechnology
Ronal Diep............................................. Computing
Samarth Dobhal......................................... Process
★Douglas Peter Dodman....... Automotive & Vehicle
Technology
Michael Lloyd Dokis........................Manufacturing
★Shane Allan Downie........................Biotechnology
Myles Drake..... Automotive & Vehicle Technology
Rajinder Dua................................................Energy
★Dipin Duggal.... Automotive & Vehicle Technology
Malaika Ekua Edwards....................Biotechnology
Philipp Feller................................................Energy
Jin Sheng Feng.......................................... Process
Alric Charles Fernandes............................. Process
★Gwendolyn Elaine Finhert...............Manufacturing
Renatus Dennis Fonseca.................Manufacturing
Spencer Patrick Fredson............................ Process
Mark Georgui................................... Automotive &
Vehicle Technology
Daniel James Joseph Gingras.....................Energy
Shamsher Grewal...........................Manufacturing
★Gerald Henry Gysbers........................... Computing
Yun Yi Hai......... Automotive & Vehicle Technology
Yalda Hakimy...................................Biotechnology
Sanghyuk Han.................................Manufacturing
David Murray Healey................................. Process
Arturo Jesus Hernandez............................ Process
★Grant Hodson........................................ Computing
Adam Ianiri................................................. Process
Alex Michael Irwin..................................... Process
★Cory Itner..........................................................Civil
Amitpal Jassal.................................................Civil
Marcin Jedrzejewski........................Biotechnology
Osia Thanujan Jeevaratnam............ Automotive &
Vehicle Technology
Herman Jonathan Kamstra........................ Process
Mohammad Kassab............ Automotive & Vehicle
Technology
Karteek Kasukurti.........................................Energy
Tanveer Kaur...................................Manufacturing
Tejinder Kaur................................................Energy
Syed Amjad Kazmi................................ Computing
Spencer James Kelly.......... Automotive & Vehicle
Technology
Muhammed Khan.............................................Civil
Tariq Imtiaz Khan..........................................Energy
Umair Khan................................................ Process
Chiranjeev Khatra...........................Manufacturing
★Byoungchul Ko........................................... Process
Howard Ko............................................ Computing
Pavel Kopelev................................... Automotive &
Vehicle Technology
★John Krikorian.................................Manufacturing
Nikolay Krivulin..................................... Computing
Chun Yin Gerry Kwan.......... Automotive & Vehicle
Technology
Oluwatobiloba Laleye......... Automotive & Vehicle
Technology
Benson Lam..................................................Energy
Christopher Kei-Hin Lam..... Automotive & Vehicle
Technology
Friday June 12, 2015: 9:30 a.m., Great Hall, Hamilton Place Andrew Stefan Latowiec.................Biotechnology
Robert Anson Lau................ Automotive & Vehicle
Technology
Joseph Lawlor.................................. Automotive &
Vehicle Technology
★Benjamin Douglas Legris...................... Computing
Darong Li.......... Automotive & Vehicle Technology
Yinbing Li.......... Automotive & Vehicle Technology
Zhen Liu............ Automotive & Vehicle Technology
Carter Kenner Love.........................Manufacturing
★Ramnik Singh Malhi........................Manufacturing
★Zahraa Mazin-I-Khalil................................ Process
Kyle Michael McCooey.............................. Process
Brent McKelvie...............................Manufacturing
Eric Anthony McWilliam............................ Process
Workie Mienwipia...........................................Civil
Jacek Miszczak............................................Energy
Khine Mon.......................................Manufacturing
Mugdha Makarand Mulay......................... Process
Rajeev Muthulingam....................................Energy
Emily Cheuk Yan Ng........................Manufacturing
★Gregory Andrew Olmstead................... Computing
Alfredo Pabuna................................ Automotive &
Vehicle Technology
Rahul Panchal..................................................Civil
★Daxeshkumar Patel.........................Manufacturing
Lukas Robert Pavkovic............................... Process
★Mohana Krishnan Radha Krishnan..............Energy
Tuan Imran Rajap................ Automotive & Vehicle
Technology
★Donge Ren....................................................Energy
Conor Philip Roach..................................... Process
Zenas Rodrigo..............................................Energy
★Dipita Kristy Roy..............................Biotechnology
Kennex John Solidum Rozal............ Automotive &
Vehicle Technology
Daniel Jay Raquinio Sacbibit...........Biotechnology
★Harjiwan Saini.................................................Civil
Tarik Salama.....................................................Civil
Stephany Salcedo............................................Civil
Erik Raymond Gerhard Schempp..... Automotive &
Vehicle Technology
Reiner Schmidt................................. Automotive &
Vehicle Technology
Joshua Henry Schuurman.......................... Process
★Laura Seely........................................... Computing
Aathavan Selvarajah....................................Energy
Kalindu Kalhara Sembakutti............ Automotive &
Vehicle Technology
Muhammad Shahid.........................Manufacturing
★Steven Sherman...............................................Civil
★Minchul Sim............................................... Process
Sandeep Singh Simak.....................Manufacturing
Amarpal Singh................................Manufacturing
★ with distinction (achievement of a minimum Grade Point Average of 9.5/12)
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BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY (CONTINUED…)
Rajbir Singh.....................................Manufacturing
★Vijay Singh...................................................Energy
Justin Alexander Slawek.... Automotive & Vehicle
Technology
Nicholas Smithson...........................................Civil
Eric Sonenvirth.................................Biotechnology
Alexander Springer.................................... Process
Ian Douglas Stirling................................... Process
Rongkun Tan............................................... Process
Gregory Bryan Tapang......................Biotechnology
Diego Teran.....................................Manufacturing
Menojan Thavachelvan....................Biotechnology
Dennis Ting..................................................Energy
Nicholas Pieter Van Kampen..................... Process
Rebecca Varghis...............................Biotechnology
Mcknew Vu......................................Biotechnology
Kyle Cody Waite.................. Automotive & Vehicle
Technology
Kaiwen Wang................................... Automotive &
Vehicle Technology
★Jaudat Syed Husain Wasty.............Manufacturing
Jeffrey James Whibley.............................. Process
Hasitha Lahiru Oshada Wijesingha.....Automotive
& Vehicle Technology
Edward Wong...............................................Energy
Tegiola Xhemalaj..............................................Civil
Xiaoxu Ye................................................... Process
★Jing Yuan.......... Automotive & Vehicle Technology
Shang De Zhang......................................... Process
Yu Zhu............... Automotive & Vehicle Technology
Nikita Zintchenko.............................................Civil
Names of graduands listed in this program are those recommended to Senate as of June 3, 2015. 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.
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Faculty of Engineering
UNDERGRADUATE AWARD RECIPIENTS
(2014-2015 SESSION)
MEDALS
THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S ACADEMIC
MEDAL
Elizabeth Culp
Matthew Jessome
THE E. H. AMBROSE GOLD MEDAL
Zejiang Chen
THE BASU MEDAL
Steven Dueck
THE BINKLEY MEDAL
Natalie Perna
THE CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR MECHANICAL
ENGINEERING MEDAL
Paul Ricciuti
THE DEAN’S MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE
HUMANITIES
Kendra Oudyk
Alison McNeil
Sierra Smith
Chloe Sukkau
Emma Bridgwater
THE ONTARIO PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS
FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION GOLD MEDAL
Simon Younan
TROPHIES AND MERIT AWARDS
THE AMBASSADOR OF SPAIN BOOK PRIZE
Jeremy Angelini
THE BURKE MEMORIAL RING
Nicole Rakowski
THE CSEP/SCPE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT
AWARD
Aaron Kipp
THE IROQUOIS TROPHY
Mitchell Rohrer
THE SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY MERIT
AWARD
Kalia Akkad
Thomas Mcgill
Sanjay Sonney
THE DR. RUDOLF DE BUDA SCHOLARSHIP
Joshua Sammut
THE JOHN DEERE LIMITED SCHOLARSHIP
Paulminder Brar
THE LAURA DODSON PRIZE
Michael Skinnider
THE BRUCE M. HAMILTON AWARD
Philip Badawy
THE JENNIFER HEADLEY SCHOLARSHIP
Christina Vietinghoff
THE BURTON R. JAMES MEMORIAL PRIZE
Zejiang Chen
THE W. NORMAN JEEVES SCHOLARSHIP
Chloe Sukkau
THE FRANK E. JONES PRIZE
Philip Badawy
THE DR. JEAN JONES MEMORIAL
SCHOLARSHIP
Wenda Debicki
THE J. E. L. GRAHAM MEDAL
Deborah Rimay
SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES
THE AMELIA HALL GOLD MEDAL
Hanah Itner
THE ANTHROPOLOGY PRIZE
Charlene Mohammed
THE HUMANITIES MEDALS FOR SPECIAL
ACHIEVEMENT
Katrina Owens
Amanda Nash
Sara King
Anna Kozak
Hanah Itner
THE WILLIAM AND LIDA BARNS MEMORIAL
PRIZE IN HISTORY
Sara King
THE KINESIOLOGY PRIZES
Jem Cheng
THE REV. ALLISON M. BARRETT SCHOLARSHIP
Andrew Case
THE RUTH LANDES PRIZE
Andrea Bankova
THE ABE BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZES
Christopher Galano
Siqi Huang
Scarlett Mackay
THE FELIKS LITKOWSKI PRIZE IN POLITICAL
SCIENCE
Chantal Cino
THE LEONE BETTY BLACKWELL MEMORIAL
BOOK PRIZE
Chelsi McNeill-Jewer
THE BERT MacKINNON MEMORIAL
SCHOLARSHIP
Devra Charney
CFUW-HAMILTON MEMORIAL PRIZE IN
POLITICAL SCIENCE PRIZE
Lindsay Robinson
THE AGNES AND JOHN MacNEILL MEMORIAL
PRIZE
Margaret Inman
THE DAWSON PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY
Lori vandenEnden
THE CATHERINE MacNEILL PRIZE
Madeleine Bondy
THE HURD MEDAL
Jessie Lu
THE JENSEN MEDAL
Brian McPherrin
THE GERALD L. KEECH MEDAL
Ashley General
THE MAPS GOLD MEDAL
Mark Coenen
THE R. C. McIVOR MEDAL
Peter Demaio
Friday June 12, 2015: 9:30 a.m., Great Hall, Hamilton Place THE KARL KINANEN ALUMNI PRIZE IN
GERONTOLOGY
Kendra Wait
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UNDERGRADUATE AWARD RECIPIENTS (CONTINUED …)
THE ESTHER McCANDLESS MEMORIAL PRIZE
Elizabeth Culp
THE HARRY L. PENNY PRIZE
Irene Minaji
THE SOCIOLOGY PRIZE
Deborah Rimay
Lois Allen
THE A.G. McKAY PRIZE IN CLASSICAL
STUDIES
Emily Herron
THE PIONEER ENERGY LP GERONTOLOGY
PRIZE
Jillian Goltz
Kendra Wait
THE JOHN H. TRUEMAN PRIZE
Emily Herron
THE WALTER SCOTT McLAY SCHOLARSHIP
Margaret Inman
THE PIONEER ENERGY LP PRIZE IN NURSING
Ayla Vreman
Katherine Prain
THE McMASTER UNIVERSITY FUTURES FUND
GRADUAND SCHOLARSHIP
Christopher Galano
Miles Couchman
THE POLITICAL SCIENCE PRIZE
Scott Miranda
THE McMASTER NURSING ALUMNI
MEMORIAL PRIZE
Amanda Soukvilay
THE AUDREY EVELYN MEPHAM AWARD
Emily Cichonski
Rebecca Wardlaw
Michelle Simeoni
Taylor Heffering
THE MIDDLETON/WALKER PRIZE IN
SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY
Rebecca Englert
THE E. S. MOORE PRIZE
Craig Allison
THE P. L. NEWBIGGING PRIZE
Alexandra Paris
Phil-Sun Paek
THE ONTARIO ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL
WORKERS PRIZES
Irene Minaji
Wenda Debicki
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THE POLITICAL SCIENCE HONOURS ESSAY
PRIZE
Christopher Telford
THE LLOYD REEDS PRIZE
Alanna Smolarz
Kimberly Dowell
Emily Schutz
Kristin Clements
THE RELIGIOUS STUDIES PRIZE
Andrew Case
THE ABRAHAM ISAAC ROSENBERG
MEMORIAL PRIZE
Stephen Petrina
THE SHELL CANADA PRIZES IN ENGINEERING
AND MANAGEMENT
Clement Emmanuel
Paul Ricciuti
Kalia Akkad
THE HARRY WAISGLASS BOOK PRIZE
Lindsay Robinson
THE ALVINA MARIE WERNER SCHOLARSHIP
Victoria Dorey
M.B.A. MEDALS AND AWARDS
THE D.M (MIKE) HEDDEN GOLD MEDAL
Matthew Bell
THE BASU MEDAL
Adam Prokop
THE ALLAN J. GREVE – ST. JOSEPH’S HEALTH
CARE MEDAL
Claire Seymour
THE LITVAK MEDAL IN MARKETING
Raza Khan
THE R.J. SPENCE MEMORIAL MEDAL
Robert Macrae
THE RICHARD SLOBODIN PRIZE
Andrea Bankova
Faculty of Engineering
HONORARY DEGREES
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Business
Julian Davies, Doctor of Science
Richard Buckingham, Doctor of Laws
Julian Davies is a professor emeritus in the
Department of Microbiology and Immunology and
principal investigator of the Davies Lab at the
University of British Columbia (UBC). His earlier
academic appointments include serving as director
of the Life Sciences Institute at UBC and as a department chair at the Institut
Pasteur in Paris. Described by the journal Nature Biotechnology as “an icon of
the European biotech industry and a pioneer of metagenomics,” he has made
significant contributions to the understanding of antibiotics, bacterial resistance
and recombitant DNA. He has more than 280 peer-reviewed publications and
has served on a number of scientific boards and committees, including chairing
the External Scientific Board of the National Institutes of Health Human
Microbiome Project.
Davies also established a distinguished career in the private sector. He has
been executive vice-president of Cubist Pharmaceuticals, president and CEO
of TerraGen Diversity and president of Biogen SA. A member of the Scientific
Advisory Board of McMaster’s Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious
Disease Research, Davies has earned the recognition of his peers in Canada and
internationally. He is a fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Canada
and the National Academy of Sciences in the United States. He has received
numerous honorary degrees and several prominent awards including the American
Society for Microbiology Lifetime Achievement Award and the Society of General
Microbiology Gold Medal.
A native of Manitoba who spent his teens in
Burlington, Ontario, Richard Buckingham graduated
from McMaster University and Harvard Law School.
After practicing law in New York City with the global
firm Graham & James (now Squire Patton Boggs), he
began a successful career in private investment banking. He worked with Echelon
Ventures LP of Boston, was managing director of Inter-Market Capital Associates
and president of Integrated Capital Associates.
As he has built a career that has taken him from Canada to New York and now
London, Buckingham has remained remarkably dedicated to and engaged with
McMaster, his undergraduate alma mater. His service began with his leadership
of the Friends of McMaster, the University’s American charitable arm, and the
New York Branch of the McMaster Alumni Association. He has been a diversely
interested philanthropist at McMaster, making significant gifts to areas
including engineering, music, athletics, philosophy, the McMaster University
Student Centre, the Bertrand Russell Centre, and the James Stewart Centre
for Mathematics. He also served on the volunteer cabinet for The Campaign for
McMaster University.
Buckingham’s signature contribution to McMaster, however, has been through his
service to the Board of Governors. Currently an honorary governor and a member of
the board’s Human Resources Committee, he served for many years on the board
and was an exemplary vice-chair from 2009 to 2010 and chair from 2011 to 2013.
School of Nursing & Medical Radiation Sciences
Judith Shamian, Doctor of Science
Judith Shamian is a professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Toronto, president emeritus of VON (Victorian Order of Nurses)
Canada and the 27th president of the International Council of Nurses, Shamian is the second Canadian to hold this post. She was president
and CEO of VON Canada for eight years after serving in a series of key leadership positions including as executive director of nursing policy
for Health Canada, president of the Canadian Nurses Association and vice-president of nursing for Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto where
she established a World Health Collaborating Centre for Leadership Development – the first collaboration of its kind.
Shamian is a respected researcher whose work has influenced nursing-related policy both in Canada and internationally. She has led the Canadian Nurses Association’s
National Expert Commission on Healthcare, served as co-chair of the Health Care Innovation Working Group of the Council of the Federation (of Canada’s premiers) and
been a member of the board of directors for the Canadian Home Care Association.
Shamian, who has been named one of Canada’s one hundred most powerful women, has received numerous honours including three honorary degrees, the Top Cited
Award 2006-2008 from the International Journal of Nursing Studies and the Canadian Nurses Association Centennial Award.
She is a lifetime member of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, and international fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
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HONORARY DEGREES (CONTINUED…)
Faculty of Humanities and Arts & Science Program
Faculty of Social Sciences (Morning Ceremony)
Joseph Tanenbaum, Doctor of Laws
Toby Tanenbaum, Doctor of Laws
Catherine Frazee, Doctor of Laws
Joseph (Joey) and Toby Tanenbaum have
established one of Canada’s most important
philanthropic legacies through a series of
organization-defining gifts primarily to the arts,
cultural institutions and healthcare. Joseph is the founder and chair of Jay-M
Enterprises and Jay-M Holdings Ltd., past chairman of Hydro-Pontiac Inc. and
Pembroke Electrical Light Co., and the former president and CEO of the Bridge
and Tank Company in Hamilton.
Together, the Tanenbaums have given landmark gifts to organizations including
the Canadian Opera Company, the Metropolitan Opera Association, the National
Ballet of Canada, Music Canada and the Toronto Symphony. They are also
important donors to hospitals and medical research, the Jewish community and
universities. They are best known, however, for building public art collections
with gifts to – among many others – the National Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario,
the Royal Ontario Museum and the Art Gallery of Hamilton where their gift
established arguably the most important collection of nineteenth-century French
art in Canada.
The Tanenbaums have jointly received a number of awards including the Opera
Canada Award and Doctors of Commerce Honorary Degrees from Ryerson
University. Joseph has been presented the Arbor Award and an Honour and
Distinction Award from the University of Toronto. A member of the Order of
Canada, he has also received the Roy A. Phinnemore Award from the Construction
Safety Association of Ontario, the Lescarbot Award and been named a fellow of
the Society for Civil Engineering. Toby received the Order of Ontario in 2014.
Catherine Frazee is a Professor Emerita at Ryerson
University, where prior to her retirement she
served as Professor of Distinction and Co-Director
of the RBC-Ryerson Institute for Disability Studies
Research & Education. Through her scholarship,
activism, teaching, art and public service, she has challenged barriers to the full
social inclusion of people with disabilities and created identifiable change in
everything from artistic opportunities to legislation. The Chief Commissioner of
the Ontario Human Rights Commission from 1989 to 1992, Frazee has worked for
decades to advocate for human rights through her involvement with numerous
organizations including the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), the
Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL), the Council of Canadians with
Disabilities (CCD) and the Abilities Arts Festival. She has provided expert testimony
before Federal and Provincial Courts on human rights and disability disadvantage
and has contributed actively in Supreme Court of Canada interventions of strategic
concern to disabled Canadians. She has contributed to a wide array of texts and
journals in both academic and literary spheres, and has published numerous
opinion pieces in Canada’s national news media.
Frazee has been particularly active in the arts sector, helping to cultivate
opportunities for showcasing the disability experience through her role as a
director of the Abilities Arts Festival, co-curator of the award-winning exhibition
Out From Under: Disability, History and Things to Remember and her prominent
role in the 2006 National Film Board film Shameless: The ART of Disability. Frazee
has received a number of awards including honorary degrees from Dalhousie
University and the University of New Brunswick. She was appointed an Officer
of the Order of Canada in December 2014, for her advancement of the rights of
persons with disabilities, and as an advocate for social justice.
Faculty of Social Sciences (Afternoon Ceremony)
Ela Bhatt, Doctor of Laws
Ela Ramesh Bhatt born in 1933, Padmabhushan Ela R. Bhatt, a Gandhian, is widely recognized as one of the world’s most remarkable
pioneers and entrepreneurial forces in grassroots development. Known as the “gentle revolutionary,” she has dedicated her life to improving
the lives of India’s poorest and most oppressed women workers. In 1972, she founded the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA),
a trade union with more than 2 million members now. She founded SEWA Cooperative Bank in 1974 which has an outreach of 3 million
women now. She was a Member of the Indian Parliament Rajya sabha and subsequently a Member of the Indian Planning Commission.
She founded and served as Chair for Women’s World Banking, the International Alliance of Home-based Workers (HomeNet), Street Vendors (StreetNet) and Women
in Informal Employment: Globalizing, Organizing (WIEGO). She also served as a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation for a decade. She has received several awards,
including Padmashree, Padmabhushan, the Ramon Magsaysay Award and the Right Livelihood Award, George Meany-Lane Kirkland Labour Rights Award by AFL-CIO,
US and Légion d’honneur by France, Madrid Creatividad Award, CGAE Human Rights Award by Spain, Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development as
well as honorary doctorates from Harvard, Yale, Natal, McMaster, M.S. Baroda and other Universities. Member of the Council of The Elders brought together by Nelson
Mandela (2007). Director, Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), (2011). She has authored “We Are Poor but So Many” book published by Oxford University
Press, NY (2006). Currently she has been nominated as Chancellor of Gujarat Vidyapith, founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1920.
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Faculty of Engineering
HONORARY DEGREES (CONTINUED…)
Faculty of Science (Morning Ceremony)
Faculty of Engineering (Morning Ceremony)
Peter Calamai, Doctor of Science
George Roter, Doctor of Science
Peter Calamai’s journalism career began at
McMaster’s Silhouette and continued professionally
at The Hamilton Spectator. Working for more than
forty years with Southam News and at leading
Canadian newspapers as a photographer, reporter
and editor with postings in Ottawa, Vancouver, London, Nairobi and Washington,
he covered armed conflicts around the world and the Supreme Court of Canada.
He was the editorial page editor of The Ottawa Citizen and the national science
reporter for The Toronto Star.
Calamai has a national profile as a volunteer with numerous organizations
including the Science Media Centre of Canada, Environment Canada, the
Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network, Youth Science Canada and
the Canadian Science Writers’ Association where he was a founding member.
He has been the Max Bell Chair in Journalism at the University of Regina and
both a visiting associate professor and adjunct research professor of journalism at
Carleton University. He has also produced a number of research projects including
a study that led to legal reforms to allow the use of tape recorders in Canadian
trial courts.
A three-time winner of Canada’s highest journalistic honour, the National
Newspaper Award, Calamai has also received the Michener Award for Meritorious
Public Service Journalism, the Peter Kirkby Memorial Medal, a UNESCO Literacy
Award and the Royal Canadian Institute’s Sandford Fleming Award. In December
2014, he was named a member of the Order of Canada “for his achievements as a
science journalist and his contributions to the cause of literacy.” He is a member
of the McMaster Alumni Gallery.
In 2000, George Roter was studying mechanical and
biomedical engineering at the University of Waterloo
when he co-founded Engineers Without Borders
(EWB) Canada with Parker Mitchell, becoming the
organization’s chief executive officer. Working literally
from an idea scribbled on a napkin, they built EWB Canada into an influential
international organization with more than 3,000 volunteers, 50,000 supporters,
50 chapters and teams in Canada and African nations including Malawi, Ghana,
Uganda and Zambia. Over the past 15 years, EWB’s staff and volunteers have
worked with more than 150 businesses, governments and organizations, and over
the past 5 years the organization has incubated 2 dozen entrepreneurial ventures.
The impact has been substantial: EWB supported or EWBer founded innovations
are serving literally tens of millions of people across sub-Saharan Africa.
In Canada and specifically at McMaster, EWB Canada has also had a signficant
impact. It has galvanized a movement socially minded engineers who, individually
and collectively, have contributed to the evolution of engineering education across
the country and have changed the shape of the international policy landscape in
our country. Roter, who delivered the 29th Annual Hodgins Lecture at McMaster
in 2013, is an Ashoka Fellow for Social Entrepreneurship and the recipient of
numerous honours including honorary degrees, the Public Policy Forum’s Young
Leaders Award, Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 and the Action Canada Fellowship on
public policy. Time magazine recognized him as one of Canada’s next generation
of social leaders in 2001.
Faculty of Engineering (Afternoon Ceremony)
P. Thomas Jenkins, Doctor of Laws
McMaster alumnus P. Thomas Jenkins is the chairman of OpenText Corporation after serving previously as president and chief executive
officer and as executive chairman and chief strategy officer as OpenText became Canada’s largest software company.
Jenkins has a strong record of public service including chairing the Government of Canada’s Military Procurement Review Panel, the
Research and Development Policy Review Panel and the 2011 panel on Innovation and Government Procurement. He is on the advisory
board of the Canadian Digital Media Network and is a member of the Canadian Government’s Advisory Panel on Open Government. He is a member of the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and a past member of both the Government of Canada’s Competition Policy Review Panel and the
Province of Ontario’s Commercialization Network Review Committee.
Jenkins is a director of the C.D. Howe Institute and the Canadian Council of Chief Executives as well as a founder of Communitech, the Waterloo Region Technology
Association. He served as a commissioned officer in the Canadian Forces Reserve and is an honorary colonel of the Royal Highland Fusiliers. He has been named
Ontario Entrepreneur of the Year and received the McMaster Engineering L.W. Shemilt Distinguished Alumni Award. He is a fellow of the Canadian Engineering Society,
an Officer of the Order of Canada and the new chancellor of the University of Waterloo.
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DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
Dr. Deborah Cook
Professor, Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Dr. Paul O'Byrne
Professor, Medicine
Deborah Cook is a world authority in critical care
medicine, evidence-based medicine and health
research methodology, including randomized trials
and systematic review methodology. Graduating from
the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine in 1985, Dr. Cook completed her
residency in internal medicine, and fellowships at both McMaster and Stanford
Universities. A full-time faculty member at McMaster for 25 years, Cook has made
outstanding contributions to scholarship, research, education and service at the
University and the broader international community. She is one of McMaster's
most prolific researchers (with more than 30,000 citations to her work) and has
elevated McMaster's worldwide reputation in health care. Dr. Cook was named
as a Fellow of the Royal Society for her multi-method, multi-disciplinary research
on life support technology, risk factors for critical illness, prevention of ICUacquired complications, end-of-life choices, and research ethics.
Paul O’Byrne is serving as chair of the Department of
Medicine for an unprecedented third term. A fellow
of the Royal Society of Canada, he is the first scientist
in McMaster’s Faculty of Health Sciences to hold two
decades of continuous career award support from the Medical Research Council
of Canada. His research has a major influence on understanding the causes of
and improving the treatments of asthma. He has been chair of both the Scientific
Committee and the Executive Committee of the Global Initiative for Asthma.
O’Byrne has received the James H. Graham Award of Merit from the Royal College
of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the Congress Chair Award and Medal
from the European Respiratory Society. He also has honorary fellowships from
many international organizations, including the American Academy of Allergy,
Asthma and Immunology and the European Respiratory Society. He has also been
elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
A Canada Research Chair of Research Transfer in Intensive Care, Cook’s
contributions to clinical study design and clinical trial execution have led to
improvements in health care and continue to influence researchers around the
world. Dr. Cook was recently appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Faculty of Science (Afternoon Ceremony)
Faculty of Engineering (Morning Ceremony)
Dr. Christine Wilson
Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Dr. Shiping Zhu
Professor, Chemical Engineering
The discoverer of Comet Wilson, Christine Wilson
is a globally recognized expert on star formation in
nearby galaxies. Among her most influential work is
an analysis and calibration of the CO-to-H2 conversion
factor, allowing scientists to obtain accurate measures of the amount of star-forming
gas in galaxies beyond our own.
Wilson leads the Nearby Galaxies Legacy Survey and the Very Nearby Galaxies
Survey, complementary multi-national projects making significant contributions
to a more comprehensive set of correlations of star formation rate with galaxy
size, structural type and environment. For 15 years she was the Canadian project
scientist for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array in Chile; she was also an associate
scientist with the SPIRE instrument for the European Space Agency’s Herschel
Space Observatory. She has received the Women’s Faculty Award from the Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Premier’s Research Excellence
Award. In 2014 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
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Shiping Zhu is Canada’s top academic chemical
engineer and among the world’s best polymer
science researchers. He was the first to report direct
detection of the elusive radicals in atom transfer
radical polymerization (ATRP), thus providing fundamental insight into a previously
controversial aspect of a vast research area. Zhu has also changed the way in
which discoveries in basic polymer science are scaled to practical commercial and
industrial applications.
Zhu has trained more than one hundred highly qualified personnel, published
over three hundred high impact research articles, and delivered more than three
hundred conference presentations and invited seminars.
Zhu is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Canadian
Academy of Engineering, the Chemical Institute of Canada and the Engineering
Institute of Canada. He holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Macromolecular
Reaction Engineering and received the 2011 Macromolecular Science and
Engineering Award, the top award in the field in Canada.
Faculty of Engineering
DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS (CONTINUED…)
Faculty of Engineering (Afternoon Ceremony)
Dr. M. Jamal Deen
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
M. Jamal Deen has established himself as arguably the top engineering scientist in Canada by making outstanding contributions to
optoelectronics and nanoelectronics, and to systems used in communications, biosensing and other fields. His work on the modeling of
photodetectors is the standard for excellence in physics-based and engineering models and his modeling and characterization of the noise in
semiconductor devices is one of his many innovations to have strong commercial impact.
Deen, who has received honorary degrees in Canada and Spain, is an elected fellow of ten societies and academies including the Royal Society of Canada, the Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the American Physical Society and the Electrochemical Society. He is also a foreign fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India
as well as the Indian National Academy of Engineering.
GOVERNOR GENERAL’S ACADEMIC MEDAL
Faculty of Science (Morning Ceremony)
Faculty of Health Sciences
Elizabeth Culp
Matthew Jessome
Elizabeth Culp is completing her undergraduate degree
in Honours Biology. During her degree, she engaged
in several undergraduate research opportunities
including an NSERC summer research scholarship and
senior thesis project working with Dr. Bhagwati Gupta
in the Department of Biology. Outside of class, she enjoyed playing trumpet in the
McMaster Concert Band and piano in the McMaster Children’s Hospital lobby. In the
fall, Elizabeth will begin a master’s degree in Biochemistry at McMaster.
Matthew is graduating from the Bachelor of
Health Sciences (Honours) Program with a minor
in Biochemistry. His research interests in both
rheumatology and genetic epidemiology have led to
journal publications and presentations at national
and international conferences. He has been the recipient of Canadian Institutes of
Health Research (CIHR) and McMaster research scholarships, in addition to numerous
academic and community contribution awards. As an advocate of education for his
fellow students, Matthew served as the Academic Coordinator for the Bachelor of
Health Sciences Society, collaborating with student, faculty, and administrative leaders
across McMaster. He has also shared his passion for learning as a Teaching Assistant,
mentor for first year students, and as a tutor and executive of McMaster’s chapter of
Students Offering Support. Matthew is excited to be continuing his education here at
McMaster’s Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine this coming fall.
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
Friday June 12, 2015: 9:30 a.m., Great Hall, Hamilton
Place degree
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frames, crested giftware and limited edition Class of 2015 merchandise.
PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS
TO TEACHING & LEARNING
School of Nursing & Medical Radiation Sciences
Faculty of Science (Morning Ceremony)
Dr. Janet Landeen
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Dr. David Shore
Professor, Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour
Janet Landeen is an Associate Professor in the
School of Nursing, McMaster University. She earned
her BSN from the University of Connecticut in 1973,
her MEd from the University of Victoria in 1988, and her PhD in Medical Sciences
from the University of Toronto in 2000. Prior to beginning her academic career,
she had many years of direct clinical nursing practice in psychiatric/mental health
nursing. She has been at McMaster since 1987, first holding a joint appointment
with the Hamilton Program for Schizophrenia and the School of Nursing, and
subsequently joining the School full time in 1997. Her research interests have
concentrated on best practices in nursing education and on living with serious
mental illness, including the importance of hope. While she was the Assistant
Dean of the Undergraduate Nursing Education Program from 2004 to 2012, she led
the development and implementation of the Kaleidoscope Curriculum. Her most
recent research projects have included examining the impact of the Kaleidoscope
Curriculum, and in exploring the unique perspectives of students in collaborative
college/university programs.
As the principle investigator of the Multisensory
Perception Laboratory, Dr. David Shore investigates
the interaction of different sensory modalities
across time and space. His fifty scientific publications address research topics on
human cognition and perception, face processing, visual attention, multisensory
integration, development, and special populations. An associate chair of PNB,
Shore has coordinated a large-scale curriculum overhaul to ensure that students
are realizing their potential, which required a reconsideration of the role of the
traditional lecture and textbook format.
Dr. Shore is actively pursuing basic research in the domain of teaching and
learning while applying this basic knowledge to the classroom. These research
efforts will take advantage of the newly created LIVE lab, which provides a venue
for exploring human interaction in a classroom setting. His basic research on
multisensory processes is also moving into an applied domain through exploration
of individuals with eating disorders—this research focuses on the updating body
representations through different frames of reference. As an adjunct member of
the Department of Linguistics and Language, Shore is exploring sex differences in
the linguistic representation of emotion.
Faculty of Engineering (Morning Ceremony)
Kevin Dunn
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
Kevin Dunn is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at McMaster University. He focuses on teaching students
the foundations of chemical engineering and teaches mostly third- and final-year courses. With a strong interest in teaching innovation, he
investigates the use of technology, behind-the-scenes software, and novel teaching techniques in engineering education. Kevin is a strong
proponent of constant improvement, whether it is in teaching or in his personal life. Never stop experimenting!
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PRESIDENT’S AWARD OF EXCELLENCE IN STUDENT LEADERSHIP
Faculty of Health Sciences
Ambika Tejpal
Ambika Tejpal has won the Rotary Club of Hamilton
Scholarship and Community Contribution Award,
as well as the Edwin Marwin Dalley Memorial
Scholarship. She has worked as a Teaching Assistant
and contributed to numerous research projects
at McMaster University. As a volunteer, Ambika has been an integral part of
numerous campus groups, including MSU Diversity Services, the McMaster
Mentorship Program, McMaster Medicine and You, United Against Gendercide,
and the McMaster chapter of the Canadian Red Cross. She also served as
the Co-President of McMaster Smiling Over Sickness, a student organization
dedicated to helping sick children smile through fundraising, volunteerism, and
community engagement.
Faculty of Social Sciences (Afternoon Ceremony)
Tristan Paul
Tristan Paul has been involved in multiple facets of
student life throughout his undergraduate career.
Most notably, he has been an active leader within the
McMaster Students Union (MSU) where he was elected
three times to the Student Representative Assembly and served, at various times, as the SRA
Operations Commissioner and as a member of multiple MSU and university committees.
He was also at the helm of the McMaster Social Sciences Society (MSSS), previously
serving as the Vice President (Academic) culminating in his presidency of the organization
for the 2014-2015 academic year. During his term he led projects aimed at improving the
first year experience and enhancing experiential education opportunities for his peers.
His student leadership has been recognized with the Albert Lager Prize for Student
Initiative and the MSU Merit Scholarship.
Faculty of Social Sciences (Morning Ceremony)
Christa Jonathan
Christa Jonathan is Mohawk, Bear Clan from Six
Nations of the Grand River Territory. She was named
an Education Works Champion, Six Nations Community
Youth Role Model, Miss Six Nations in the ambassador
competition, and served as the President of the
McMaster First Nations Students Association. Christa is an Aboriginal Mentor with
the Aboriginal Students Health Sciences office and volunteers with Let’s Talk Science,
where she presented at the regional conference on working within Indigenous
communities. She has presented at 8 different conferences, such as the Leaders in
Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) Connection V in Australia, discussing issues
Indigenous peoples face in Canada. She has received the Brantford Alumni Branch
Community Contribution Award, the Ganohkwasra Acknowledgement Award, the
Ruby Sears Scholarship, the Grand River Post Secondary Scholarship and the Wilma
General Memorial Award. She has two publications, one academic paper published
with the Centre for Ethnicity and Race Studies for Mapping Global Racism at the
University of Leeds where she went for the MacAbroad exchange program and one
newspaper article for Wellness@Mac. Her goal is to become a family practitioner.
Faculty of Engineering (Afternoon Ceremony)
Janelle Hinds
Janelle Hinds has been an instrumental student leader
within McMaster University and the surrounding
community. She has worked with the National Society of
Black Engineers as the Program Coordinator with the aim
to increase the number of responsible engineers who
excel academically, succeed professionally, and positively impact the community. She
has also created a separate mentoring program for incoming students. Janelle founded
HackItMac, a collaborative technical community with students from all faculties
which has helped create experiential, self-directed, and interdisciplinary learning
experiences for her peers. She organized deltaHacks, the first student-run hackathon
in North America with a focus on enabling positive social change. Janelle has also
worked with Engineers Without Borders, the Alumni Office, Women In Engineering, in
addition to several other clubs across campus to promote entrepreneurship and student
development. Janelle has joined the Next36 program, a Canadian entrepreneurial
leadership initiative, and hopes to start a business of her own.
Faculty of Engineering (Afternoon Ceremony)
Benjamin Kinsella
Ben has been an active leader of the McMaster community and has contributed to numerous facets of student life. Aside from holding
various executive roles within the McMaster Engineering Society (MES), he has been involved with the McMaster Custom Vehicle Team,
Troitsky Bridge Building Competition, Great North Concrete Toboggan Race, and many other student organizations.
As Vice-President Academic of the MES, Ben created and facilitated the first student-operated peer-tutoring program on campus, which has
now served over a thousand students. He advocated for and built an official online test bank in partnership with the Faculty of Engineering, and helped implement a free
textbook library in the student lounge. As President of the MES in his senior year, Ben created EngDeals, a complimentary service that offers discounts to engineering
students at several local establishments. He also broke ground on the Society’s first Strategic Plan and founded the MES Board of Advisors, both of which will help
steer the Society towards beneficial long-term goals over the next generation of students.
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Faculty of Science (Morning Ceremony)
Faculty of Health Sciences
Elizabeth Culp
Matthew Jessome
VALEDICTORIANS
Elizabeth Culp is completing her undergraduate degree
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in Honours Biology. During her degree, she engaged
Health Sciences (Honours) Program with a minor
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in Biochemistry. His research interests in both
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journal publications and presentations at national
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conferences. He has been the recipient of Canadian Institutes of
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students, and as a tutor and executive of McMaster’s chapter of
Students Offering Support. Matthew is excited to be continuing his education here at
McMaster’s Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine this coming fall.
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 2015 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
their items in the Molson Canadian Studio (the room in which academic regalia is distributed). If your gown has been
returned and you have collected your degree, your degree can be framed at this location.
For those who wish to purchase a degree frame today before or after the ceremony, please visit the main lobby where
the Campus Store offers Official McMaster University degree frames and a wide selection of crested giftware and
limited edition Class of 2015 merchandise. Complementary degree framing also takes place in the lobby area.
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.
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