2009 Honorary Degree Recipients

2009 Spring Congregation Honorary Degree Recipients

2009 Honorary Degree Recipients - Thomas Michael Apsey

Thomas Michael Apsey, C.M.

Thomas Michael Apsey is one of Canada’s most influential and decorated forestry professionals.

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2009 Honorary Degree Recipients - Alan Bernstein

Alan Bernstein, O.C.

Alan Bernstein is the first President of the Canadian Institute of Health Research.

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2009 Honorary Degree Recipients - Iona Campagnolo

Iona Campagnola, O.C., O.B.C.

Iona Campagnola is the former Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, Member of Parliament, and a founder of the Fraser Basin Council.

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2009 Honorary Degree Recipients - Stanley Falkow

Stanley Falkow

Stanley Falkow is an international microbiologist and leader in the study of how infectious microbes and host cells interact.

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2009 Honorary Degree Recipients - Daniel Gelbart

Daniel Gelbart

Daniel Gelbart is a highly respected B.C. inventor and entrepreneur.

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2009 Honorary Degree Recipients - Judy Graves

Judy Graves

Judy Graves is the Coordinator for Vancouver’s Tenant Assistance Program, is a long-time, passionate advocate for the homeless. She began the Vancouver Homeless Outreach Project in 2005 that has successfully housed more than 2,000 people in B.C. She also co-authored the book A Room Somewhere: 101 Solutions to Homelessness.

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2009 Honorary Degree Recipients - Irving A. Guttman

Irving A. Guttman, C.M., O.B.C.

Irving Guttman was instrumental in starting the opera companies of Winnipeg, Vancouver, Edmonton and Regina.

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2009 Honorary Degree Recipients - Kenneth Stephen Julien

Kenneth Stephen Julien

Kenneth Stephen Julien is a UBC alumnus and now President of the National University of Trinidad and Tobago.

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2009 Honorary Degree Recipients - Bill Millerd

Bill Millerd, C.M.

Bill Millerd is a UBC alumnus and long-time Artistic Director of the Vancouver Arts Club Theatre Company.

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2009 Honorary Degree Recipients - Susan Point

Susan Point, O.C.

Coast Salish artist Susan Point is widely recognized for her willingness to explore new mediums, while exhibiting a mastery of traditional Coast Salish style. She has been awarded numerous public art commissions, and her works welcome visitors to the Vancouver International Airport and buildings in the U.S. and Canada. She is the recipient of the National Aboriginal Achievement Award and has been elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts.

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2009 Honorary Degree Recipients - Sir John Sulston

Sir John Sulston

Currently the Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester, Sir John Sulston is widely recognized for being the first to sequence an animal genome and the first to sequence a large region of the human genome. He was appointed the first director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, which formed the UK’s contribution to the Human Genome Project. He received a knighthood in 2001 for services rendered to genome research and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2002.

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