Congratulations
to William Morrison, Ken S. Coates, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, and Greg Poelzer on winning the 2008/09 Donner Prize for their book Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North (Thomas Allen Publishers).
From the Donner book prize website:
"This year, The Donner Canadian Foundation proudly celebrates the eleventh anniversary of the Donner Prize, which annually rewards excellence and innovation in Canadian public policy writing. The largest and most prestigious prize of its kind, the Donner Prize awards $35,000 to the author of the winning book, with $5,000 awarded to each of the other shortlisted titles (to a maximum of five titles)". read more
Congratulations (again)
to Trish Cundy. Last year Patricia Cundy and nine other UNBC students received $2500 bursaries from Spectra Energey Transmission. This summer Trish was offered and has accepted the Vancouver Foundation First Nations Bursary for 2008-2009.
Well Done Trish!
Congratulations
Kelsey Wiebe, one of our incoming gradute students and a former undergraduate, was awarded a SSHRC Masters scholarship to support her proposed research on notions of masculinity in the fur trade around Fort Simpson on the northwest coast of British Columbia 1834 and 1887.
Congratulations from everyone in the program!
Congratulations
Yvan Prkachin, a History Graduate in 2006, successfully defended his thesis for his Master's degree in History from Guelph University. Yvan's thesis, "'The Chemophilic Society': Addiction Research after the Classic Period of Narcotic Control, 1957-1975," continued his research into drug regulation in Canada. He has been approached to publish the data by Nancy Campbell who just published a book on his topic. Yvan plans to take a year off and has been debating applying to the Harvard Institute for the History of Science to work with Dr. Anne Harrington, whose work, according to Yvan "is right up his alley".
