{"id":4334,"date":"2013-06-13T11:55:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T15:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:37:07","slug":"first-b-cog-sc-convocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2013\/first-b-cog-sc-convocation\/","title":{"rendered":"First B.Cog.Sc. Convocation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        First B.Cog.Sc. Convocation\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">On Friday June 24 at 2:00 p.m., the first graduates of the Bachelor of Cognitive Science degree will receive their diplomas.&nbsp; The B.Cog.Sc. is a new designation for the degree (formerly a B.A.) which better captures the interdisciplinary nature of Cognitive Science.&nbsp; Eleven students will graduate from the program at this convocation.&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">This is a special convocation for the program for another reason.&nbsp; Stephen Jones will receive a Governor General&#8217;s Medal for his outstanding academic achievement.&nbsp; Steve had a 12.0 GPA in his four years at Carleton.&nbsp; He will also receive the very first Medal for the B.Cog.Sc. program. Steve&#8217;s specialization was in Cognition and Psychology.&nbsp; Steve will be pursing a Master of Clinical Science degree in audiology at Western University in the fall.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Picture at:&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/carletonnow.carleton.ca\/june-2013\/six-graduates-with-perfect-grades-win-governor-generals-medals\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; color: #0000ff; font-size: medium;\">http:\/\/carletonnow.carleton.ca\/june-2013\/six-graduates-with-perfect-grades-win-governor-generals-medals\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">But there is more!&nbsp; Four other students will receive Senate Medals for their outstanding academic records:&nbsp; Kensi Dickinson, Leah MacQuarrie, Tomasz Grodzinski, and Michelle Sappong.&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">We also congratulate the three students who are receiving their Ph.D. degrees:&nbsp; David Leibovitz, Crystal Blais (Villeneuve), and Sarra Ghazel.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One student will receive a Master of Cognitive Science degrees &#8211; Tabish Ismail.&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">The faculty and staff of the Institute extend their congratulations to our excellent students.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday June 24 at 2:00 p.m., the first graduates of the Bachelor of Cognitive Science degree will receive their diplomas.&nbsp; The B.Cog.Sc. is a new designation for the degree (formerly a B.A.) which better captures the interdisciplinary nature of Cognitive Science.&nbsp; Eleven students will graduate from the program at this convocation.&nbsp; This is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4374,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions\/4374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}