{"id":22449,"date":"2017-06-30T15:34:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T19:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/?p=22449"},"modified":"2025-07-10T10:38:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T14:38:48","slug":"congratulations-2016-2017-graduating-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/2017\/congratulations-2016-2017-graduating-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to our 2016-2017 graduating students!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Congratulations to our 2016-2017 graduating students!\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

On Friday June 16, 2017 the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies staff, faculty, friends and families attended spring convocation to celebrate our many graduating students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We wholeheartedly congratulate all the Ph.D., MA, Msc., BA, BA Honours, Bsc. and Bsc honours students who received their degrees on this day.  We wish you all the best on your paths to success in life – however, you choose to define it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stay in touch and keep learning and growing with the exciting years to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a day!  Here are some of the moments we were able to capture on camera. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Undergraduate administrator, Judy Eddy and Departmental Administrator, Natalie Pressburger are ready to cheer on the 2017 convocating students. The best part of the job!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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We were able to capture a few of our undergraduate students during their processional walk: Kathleen Isabel Gifford, Omar Elsharkawy, Wesley Hornby, Justin Marshy, Malek Singer,Ryder Burt, Lucas, Michelle Olerjaz Mattheus Lambert, Diandra Buttazzoni, Charline Rohmer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Our graduate students join the procession: Rupesh Subedi. Jill Sophia Rajewicz (followed by Wendy Sladen), Hugh Brendan O’Neill.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our professors being piped in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Master Graduates Jill and Rupesh receive their hoods.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Bachelor students: Omar, Wesley, Brendan Kahler, Ryan Bye.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Bachelor students: Michelle Leach, Justin Marshy, Amy Rawding, Charline Rohmer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Bachelor students: Lucas, Ryder, Diandra, Michelle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Bachelor students: Rory McAlpine and Malek Singer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Walking out proud! Brandon Fonseca, Michelle Leach, Ryder Burt, Charline Rohmer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Shiny new graduates and happy friends!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The bi-annual meet under the “G” tradition continues. Top: Jill Rajewicz, Natalie Pressburger, Brendan O’Neill, Wendy Sladen, Doug King.
Bottom: Jill, Natalie, Brendan, Doug.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Jill and Rupesh celebrate with their families. Congratulations and high five!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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DGES sets a shining example of scholarly achievement and camaraderie.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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On Friday June 16, 2017 the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies staff, faculty, friends and families attended spring convocation to celebrate our many graduating students. We wholeheartedly congratulate all the Ph.D., MA, Msc., BA, BA Honours, Bsc. and Bsc honours students who received their degrees on this day.  We wish you all the best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,8,1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-fass-news","category-news","category-success-stories"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31962,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22449\/revisions\/31962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}