SFU Graduate Studies

This morning’s convocation saw a parade of SFU’s new PhDs in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology and the Faculty of Science.

Their red gowns with blue Cambridge bonnets are regalia which which originated in the monasteries of the middle ages.

At the morning convocation, Dr. Karel Lucien Casteels received his doctorate from the Department of Mathematics and was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal for achieving the highest academic standing upon graduation from a graduate program. His thesis was The combinatorial structure of the prime spectrum of quantum matrices.

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Congratulations to this year’s Convocation Medal Winners who will receive their awards at our Spring Convocation, June 14–17, 2011.

Governor General’s Gold Medals
The Governor General’s Gold Medals are awarded to the two SFU graduate students who achieve the highest academic standing upon graduation from a master’s or doctoral degree program.

• Jesse Cale, PhD, School of Criminology. Thesis: The antisocial trajectories in youth of adult sexual aggressors of women: A developmental framework for examining offending, motivation, and risk of recidivism in adulthood
• Karel Lucien Casteels, PhD, Department of Mathematics. Thesis: The combinatorial structure of the prime spectrum of quantum matrices

Dean of Graduate Studies Convocation Medals
The Convocation Medals for graduate studies recognize graduating students from each faculty whose cumulative grade-point averages place them in the top five per cent of their class.

• Colin Campbell, PhD, Faculty of Business Administration. Thesis: Consumer motivations for creating and consumer responses to consumer generated advertising
• Stephanie Campbell, PhD, Department of Geography. Thesis: Productive consumption of the ‘livable’ neighbourhood: The case of Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC
• Angela Cescon, MPH, Faculty of Health Sciences. Thesis: In search of reason: Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) failures in the era of programmatic scale-up in Soweto, South Africa
• Caroline Greaves, PhD, Department of Psychology. Thesis: Progression towards sexual re-offence: Detailing the offence cycle and contributing factors in high-risk sexual offenders
• Hayley Jones, MA, School for International Studies. Thesis: Conditional cash transfers, labour markets, and poverty reduction: A pilot study of Brazil’s Bolsa Família
• Zaid Jumean, PhD, Department of Biological Sciences. Thesis: Communication of codling moth larvae: Identification and functional role of their aggregation pheromone
• Neil (Anil) Narine, PhD, School of Communication. Thesis: The cinematic network society: Ethical confrontations with new proximities to human suffering in the information age
• Kathryn Ricketts, PhD, Faculty of Education. Thesis: The suitcase, the map, and the compass: An expedition into embodied poetic narrative and its application toward fostering optimal learning spaces
• Kathleen Ross, EdD, Faculty of Education. Thesis: The effect of institutional merit-based aid on student aspirations, choice and participation: A mixed methods approach
• Dennis Storoshenko, PhD, Department of Linguistics. Thesis: A cross-linguistic account of reflexivity using synchronous tree adjoining grammar
• Michel Trottier-McDonald, PhD, Department of Physics. Thesis: Identifying hadronic tau decays using calorimeter topological clusters at ATLAS
• Jing Wang, PhD, School of Engineering Science. Thesis: Cooperation and joint source-channel transmission in wireless networks

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Three songs from Moby’s latest album are available for free download from a Vimeo contest website. The contest is to create a video using one of those songs.

Ten finalists will be highlighted on the Vimeo website and the winning contest entry will be screened at the New Directors’ Showcase in Cannes.

Submission deadline is midnight EST, May 9, 2011. Good luck!

• Moby/Vimeo contest website

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After Andy Yinan Hu finished his MA in Communication in 2006, he went on to do investigative journalism for China Daily.

He’s currently the Deputy Editor and Staff Writer on China Daily’s News cover story team, and was just profiled on the FCAT website. From undercover work at the iPhone and iPad factory to a series from the Kenya-Somali border, he’s been a prolific contributor to his newspaper.

• Profile of Andy Yinan Hu on the FCAT website
• Andy Yinan Hu’s Facebook page
• MA Thesis: Swimming against the tide: Tracing and locating Chinese leftism online

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Congratulations to Masa Iwase, recent CMNS grad, for winning the Language and Literacy Researchers’ of Canada Master’s Research Award for his thesis, New literacies, Japanese youth, and global fast food culture: Exploring critical youth agencies.

He’s received $500 and an invitation to present at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education Conference in New Brunswick this May.

• Masayuki Iwase’s award-winning thesis at the SFU library
• School of Communication’s news release on his award
• Profile of Masa at Douglas College when he was an international student new to Canada
• Language and Literacy Researchers’ of Canada Master’s Research Award

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The Association of Moving Image Archivists has announced two awards for graduate students.

1. 2011 Scholarship Program
   Four awards for students accepted into or enrolled in a full-time, graduate-level or other advanced program in film or television studies or production, library or information studies, archival administration, museum studies, or a related discipline.
   Value: $4000
   Downloadable application form | Application deadline: May 1, 2011
2. 2011 Kodak Fellowship in Film Preservation
   For students who are US citizens and who are accepted into or enrolled in a graduate-level or other advanced program in moving image studies or production, library or information studies, archival administration, museum studies, or a related discipline.
   Value: $4000, a conference, and an internship in Los Angeles
   Downloadable application form | Application Deadline: May 1, 2011

Specific eligibility requirements, selection criteria and applications are available on the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) website.

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