Event: UBC Vancouver Spring Congregation
Dates / Times: 8:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. on:
Wednesday, May 23
Thursday, May 24
Friday, May 25
Monday, May 28
Tuesday, May 29
Wednesday, May 30 (Note: No 4 p.m. ceremony)Place: The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, 6265 Crescent Rd.
Parking: Media may park free of charge at all parkades on campus during Congregation. (Meters and automated lots are not included.)
Conveniently located parkades include: The Rose Garden Parkade located adjacent to the Chan Centre off Northwest Marine Drive; the North Parkade (enter at Gate 2 off Wesbrook Mall); and the Fraser Parkade (enter at Gate 4 off Northwest Marine Drive).
Please note: Media authorization is required to cover Congregation ceremonies in the Chan Centre. Please contact Basil Waugh at 604.822.2644 to arrange.
More than 5,000 grads will cross the stage at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts to receive their degrees from University of British Columbia Chancellor Allan McEachern at Spring Congregation.
Undergraduate and graduate degrees from all 12 faculties will be conferred at 23 ceremonies. A media release with grad profiles and interview opportunities will be issued Wednesday, May 23.
In addition, eight honorary degrees will be given (see page 2 for recipients). The webcast of the event and full schedule of events can be found at www.graduation.ubc.ca.
UBC Confers Eight Honorary Degree Recipients
Biographical notes about honorary degree recipients can be found at www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/media/releases/2007/mr-07-019.html.
Honorary degree recipients
May 23
8:30 a.m. Michael Bliss, a historian of Canadian medicine and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto.
11 a.m. David Dodge, Governor of the Bank of Canada, responsible for the nation’s economic well-being, monetary policy and financial systems.
May 24
8:30 a.m. Michael Halliday, an internationally recognized linguist and professor emeritus at the University of Sydney.
4 p.m. Cassie Campbell-Pascall, former captain of Canada’s two-time gold medal-winning women’s hockey team and CBC rinkside reporter.
May 25
8:30 a.m. Robert Davidson, Haida artist known for his creative and personal interpretation of the traditional art of the Pacific Northwest.
4:00 p.m. P.J. (Jim) Peebles, a pioneering cosmologist and Albert Einstein Professor of Science at Princeton University.
May 28
11 a.m. Martha C. Piper, President and Vice-Chancellor of UBC from 1997 to 2006.
1:30 p.m. C.S. (Buzz) Holling, noted Canadian ecologist and professor emeritus at the University of Florida.
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