Golden grad leads awards list

A gifted Trent scholar with a passion for archaeology is the winner of this year's Governor General's Gold Medal for highest overall academic standing among graduate students.

Sonja Schwake completed her MA in anthropology earlier this academic year with a specialization in archaeology. She entered Trent for graduate studies in 1997, and for the last several years has been actively involved in Trent's archaeological projects in Belize, while maintaining an 86.5 % course average.

Schwake is currently in the Ph.D. program at State University of New York where she was granted a Presidential Graduate Fellowship, and was recently awarded a prestigious doctoral fellowship valued at $49,860 from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (sshrc) to continue her doctoral studies.

Two other Trent graduate students have also been awarded sshrc doctoral fellowships. Matthew Brower (methodologies) won a two-year fellowship valued at $33,240 to continue doctoral studies at University of Rochester. Nadine Gray (anthropology) was awarded a four-year fellowship valued at $66,480 to continue her doctoral studies at University of British Columbia.

Two graduate students and three fourth year honours students have been awarded new scholarships by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (nserc) for postgraduate study. Graduate level awards, valued at $19,100 per year, go to Geoffrey Wild and Constanze Mackenzie (watershed ecosystems), while master's awards, valued at $17,300 per year for two years were awarded to Erin Kelly (biology), Rachel Moll (physics) and Rebecca Nader, psychology. Andrew Jobes (M.Sc. candidate, watershed ecosystems) and Matt MacLeod (Ph.D. candidate, watershed ecosystems) are continuing at Trent in year two of their nserc awards.

Two additional nserc postdoctoral awards valued at $35,000 each were awarded to Francois Foirnier (ERS) and Jennifer Winter (chemistry).

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