Grad profiles

It's a momentous occasion and the culmination of a great deal of hard work for thousands of UVic students. During Spring Convocation, from June 15-18, the University of Victoria will award 3,024 degrees, diplomas and certificates and formally install the university's tenth chancellor, Murray Farmer, BA '68. Congratulations and best wishes to all convocating students. In the following pages, we present profiles of a few of the many outstanding members of this year's graduating class.

• Backhouse: Top law grad puts litigation to the test
• Cador: A new world view through art
• Christie: Award-winning student credits work ethic
• Cormier: Solving real-world problems—by the numbers
• deWit: Hard work opens doors for Aboriginal business grad
• Epp: Math is in her blood
• FitzGibbon: Teaching is in her genes
• Grant: Helping others a driving force for psychology grad
• Hepting: Learning is lifelong
• Kereluk: “Random decision” leads to life’s work
• Kerkovius: Grad shares her Northern spirit
• Kroeker: Engineering runs in his family
• Mead-Willis: “Unfinished business” leads to top graduate paper
• Jonson: Passion for Middle Ages takes grad to Oxford
• Napoleon: Law grad carves a new path with her studies
• Pang: "Everything clicked" for student from China
• Price: Co-op leads to graduate work in nuclear physics
• Redding: Top software engineer credits co-op, friends for success
• Scannell: Grad medalist defines our ‘love of place’
• Tello: Top PhD helping advance reproductive health
• Theatre: Theatre grads get “bridge” to professional careers
• Underwood: Graduate aims to help children on her reserve
• Vander Wekken: Adventures in community education
• Walton: From Mongolia to the BC Legislature
• Xu: “Educational spy” shares top science medal