Nov. 12, 2013
Governor General’s Gold Medals and the Chancellor’s Graduate Medals awarded
Governor General’s Gold Medals.
Two master’s and two doctoral graduates will receive medals at convocation ceremonies today.
This year’s winners of the annual Governor General's Gold Medal — one awarded at the master’s level and one at the doctoral level, to the graduate student who achieves the highest academic standing — include Heather Bryan, who wrote her thesis, “Parasites and hormones as non-invasive bioindicators of ecophysiology in carnivores,” and received her PhD, Veterinary Medicine in 2013.
Mohammed Almekhlafi is the master’s recipient this year for his research, completed in 2012 in Community Health Sciences, on “The safety and cost-effectiveness of carotid angioplasty and stenting in Calgary.”
The Governor General’s Academic Medal was first awarded in 1873 by the Earl of Dufferin, and has since become one of the most prestigious awards that a student in a Canadian educational institution may receive. With this award, the Governor General of Canada continues the tradition of encouraging outstanding scholarship across the nation.
Chancellor’s Graduate Medals.
The Chancellor’s Graduate Medal was established to acknowledge the outstanding contributions of the chancellors of the University of Calgary. These awards celebrate academic excellence at the University of Calgary. They are also awarded annually at fall convocation to graduate students based on their high academic standing, one at the master’s level and one at the doctoral level.
Winner of the Chancellor’s Graduate Medal (Doctoral) is Alka Patel, who completed her research in 2012 on “Evaluating geographic access to cardiac catheterization facilities to inform regionalized models of care for acute myocardial infarction” in the Department of Community Health Sciences.
Longlong Huang has won the Chancellor’s Graduate Medal (Master’s) for her work in Mathematics and Statistics completed in 2012 for her thesis, “Jackknife empirical likelihood for smoothed weighted rank regression with censored data.”
For more information about these and other graduate awards visit our website, , or search the Graduate Awards Database.