Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia, conferred honorary degrees upon two members of the uOttawa community at their recent convocation. Honoured were eminent historian Chad Gaffield, founding director of the University’s Institute of Canadian Studies, and leading nurse-scholar Nancy Edwards. Gaffield is president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and Edwards is a professor and principal scientist at the Institute of Population Health.
Former uOttawa vice-president of research Howard Alper also received an honorary doctorate from Concordia University. Alper was recently appointed chair of the federal government’s newly created Science, Technology and Innovation Council.
