{"id":1011,"date":"2014-04-28T22:54:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T22:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2014-04-28T22:58:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T22:58:35","slug":"science-students-among-select-ufv-standout-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2014\/04\/28\/science-students-among-select-ufv-standout-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Science students among select UFV STANDOUT leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following have been recognized as outstanding UFV student leaders by THE STANDOUT<\/a>,<\/strong> UFV\u2019s student and alumni leadership magazine issuu.com\/goufv\/docs\/ufv_standout_magazine_web_2014?e=2560931\/7428116<\/a><\/p>\n

Andrew Alexander<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"Andrew_Alexander-2014\"(Biology major, Chemistry minor) has been an excellent UFV student ambassador, excelling academically and participating in many events within the Faculty of Science and UFV at-large. He has been a mentor to many first-year students, is one of two student representatives to the Science Faculty Council and \u00a0also represented UFV at the London International Youth Science Forum in 2013. Andrew is graduating this year and is headed to UBC with a prestigious NSERC scholarship.<\/p>\n

Ashleigh Yakemchuk<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\"\"(Science studies) is a Geography student who has taken many science courses and is keen about environmental and sustainability issues. She is a leader as UFV\u2019s sustainability coordinator, \u201cworking to improve university awareness of our composting program and on the reduction of plastic water bottle sales on campus\u201d as stated by her nominator Alan Stokes, and works tirelessly to \u201creduce the carbon foot-print \u00a0of UFV\u201d<\/p>\n

CISSA (Computer Information Systems Student Association),<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Recognized as one of two UFV student organizations that are leaders in our campus. The Student Union nominated them for their work hosting annual charity events including \u201cfundraising event for video-gamers that in 2013 raised more than $2000 for Child\u2019s Play charity\u201d. \"CISSA-2014\"CISSA\u2019s mission statement is to \u201cserve students\u201d, providing assistance to CIS students and promoting \u201ccommunity on campus\u201d. President, Elizabeth Klassen and Vice-President Graham St-Eloi received the recognition on behalf of the executive members of CISSA and were quite modest about their achievements.<\/p>\n

All in all, the Faculty of Science is proud to have such outstanding students and we congratulate you for your leadership.<\/p>\n

Well done to you all, you truly STANDOUT!<\/p>\n

Dr. Lucy Lee<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

LEJ Lee, PhD
\nDean, Faculty of Science
\nUniversity of the Fraser Valley
\nAbbotsford, BC
\n604 851 6346<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following have been recognized as outstanding UFV student leaders by THE STANDOUT, UFV\u2019s student and alumni leadership magazine issuu.com\/goufv\/docs\/ufv_standout_magazine_web_2014?e=2560931\/7428116 Andrew Alexander (Biology major, Chemistry minor) has been an excellent UFV student ambassador, excelling academically and participating in many events within the Faculty of Science and UFV at-large. He has been a mentor to many … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":1024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,66,3,8,7,58,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-centre-for-environmental-sustainability","category-chemistry","category-cis","category-deans-office","category-news","category-physical-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}