Event: UBC’s Vancouver campus Fall Congregation
2,000 students graduate and two honorary degrees
Dates / Times: 9:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. on:
Wednesday, Nov. 24
Thursday, Nov. 25
Friday, Nov. 26 (Note: There will be a ceremony at 11:30 a.m. on Friday and no 12:30 p.m. or 3 p.m. ceremonies)
Location: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, 6265 Crescent Rd.
For a map, visit http://www.maps.ubc.ca?130.
Parking: Media may park at the Rose Garden Parkade located adjacent to the Chan Centre off Northwest Marine Drive.
Honorary Degree recipient Julie Payette
Date/Time: Thursday, Nov. 25, 3 p.m.
Honorary Degree recipient Louis Nirenberg
Date/Time: Friday, Nov. 26, 11:30 a.m.
Assignment/Photo Editors:
Media authorization is required to cover congregation ceremonies in the Chan Centre. Please call Heather Amos at 604.822.3213 or 604.828.3867 to arrange. Stationary camera space is very limited. Please arrive early. Handheld operators highly recommended. Wireless media feed will be provided.
Between Wednesday Nov. 24 and Friday Nov. 26, more than 2,000 UBC undergraduate and graduate degrees from all 12 Vancouver faculties will be conferred.
On Thursday, Nov. 25, astronaut Julie Payette will receive an honorary degree from UBC. Payette served as Chief Astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency from 2000 to 2007 and has spent more than 25 days in space. She flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1999, making aerospace history as the first Canadian to participate in an International Space Station mission, and she flew in the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2009.
On Friday, Nov. 26, mathematician Louis Nirenberg will also receive an honorary degree. Nirenberg, who was born in Hamilton and grew up in Montreal, was the former director and professor of mathematics at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He has made major contributions in the area of partial differential equations and he has inspired generations of mathematicians.
For information about Fall Congregation, visit http://www.graduation.ubc.ca/ubc-vancouver/
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