Golden grad leads awards list
A gifted Trent scholar with a passion for archaeology is the winner of this
year's Governor General's Gold Medal for highest overall academic standing
among graduate students.
Sonja Schwake completed her MA in anthropology earlier this
academic year with a specialization in archaeology. She entered Trent for
graduate studies in 1997, and for the last several years has been actively
involved in Trent's archaeological projects in Belize, while maintaining an
86.5 % course average.
Schwake is currently in the Ph.D. program at State University of
New York where she was granted a Presidential Graduate Fellowship, and was
recently awarded a prestigious doctoral fellowship valued at $49,860 from
the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (sshrc) to
continue her doctoral studies.
Two other Trent graduate students have also been awarded sshrc
doctoral fellowships. Matthew Brower (methodologies) won a two-year
fellowship valued at $33,240 to continue doctoral studies at University of
Rochester. Nadine Gray (anthropology) was awarded a four-year fellowship
valued at $66,480 to continue her doctoral studies at University of British
Columbia.
Two graduate students and three fourth year honours students have
been awarded new scholarships by the Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council (nserc) for postgraduate study. Graduate level awards,
valued at $19,100 per year, go to Geoffrey Wild and Constanze Mackenzie
(watershed ecosystems), while master's awards, valued at $17,300 per year
for two years were awarded to Erin Kelly (biology), Rachel Moll (physics)
and Rebecca Nader, psychology. Andrew Jobes (M.Sc. candidate, watershed
ecosystems) and Matt MacLeod (Ph.D. candidate, watershed ecosystems) are
continuing at Trent in year two of their nserc awards.
Two additional nserc postdoctoral awards valued at $35,000 each
were awarded to Francois Foirnier (ERS) and Jennifer Winter (chemistry).
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