University awards 10 honorary degrees

The University of Victoria is awarding a total of 10 honorary degrees this spring.

Two honorary degrees were awarded—to Chinese business executive Annie Suk-Ching Wu and importer/exporter Albert Hung Chao-Hong—at a special convocation ceremony in Beijing on May 12 (see story and photos).

Wu Hung Helen Hughes Ted Hughes Brzustowski Karr   Dallaire Kaiser

Six individuals are being honoured at the eight convocation ceremonies in the Farquhar Auditorium, June 7-10. They are (in order of ceremony): Victoria city councillor Helen Hughes, and her husband, former B.C. conflict of interest commissioner Ted Hughes; Dr. Tom Brzustowski, president of Science and Engineering Research Canada; classical bassist Gary Karr; retired Canadian army general Roméo Dallaire; and mining executive and philanthropist Edgar Kaiser Jr.

For more details on the lives of these remarkable people visit the May edition of The Ring online at ring.uvic.ca/05may05.

At another special convocation ceremony in Iqaluit, Nunavut, on June 21 two more honorary degrees will be presented to Akitsiraq law program elder-in-residence Lucien Ukaliannuk and Madame Justice Beverley Browne, senior justice in the Nunavut Court of Justice (see story).

Honorary degrees are awarded by the UVic senate based on nominations received from the university community. Criteria include distinction in scholarship, research, teaching, the creative arts or public service.