{"id":27740,"date":"2021-06-22T11:37:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T15:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/?p=27740"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:17:18","slug":"congratulations-to-dges-students-who-have-been-awarded-ug-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/2021\/congratulations-to-dges-students-who-have-been-awarded-ug-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to DGES students who have been awarded UG awards!"},"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                        Congratulations to DGES students who have been awarded UG awards!\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h4 id=\"congratulations-to-mifda-lafir-madani-who-has-been-awarded-the-jessie-and-wreford-watson-award-in-geography\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Congratulations to Mifda Lafir Madani who has been awarded the Jessie and Wreford Watson Award in Geography!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The Jessie and Wreford Watson Award in Geography is awarded annually to the outstanding student entering the final year of Honours Geography at Carleton University. Dr. Wreford Watson, then Chief Geographer of Canada, founded geography at Carleton in 1949. One year later he was joined by Mrs. Watson and together they lectured in geography at Carleton until 1954. Donors: Friends, faculty and alumni of the Department of Geography. Endowed 1980.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"congratulations-to-sondos-kataite-and-tara-olivero-who-have-been-awarded-the-j-peter-johnson-prize\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Congratulations to Sondos Kataite and Tara Olivero who have been awarded the J. Peter Johnson Prize<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The J. Peter Johnson Prize is awarded annually to the student who has attained the highest standing in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies second year methodology courses. Established in 1994 by members of the Department of Geography. Endowed 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"congratulations-marissa-okum-jaden-vieveen-and-regan-hachey-who-have-been-awarded-a-glenneth-m-anderson-environmental-studies-scholarship\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Congratulations Marissa Okum, Jaden Vieveen, and Regan Hachey who have been awarded a Glenneth M. Anderson Environmental Studies Scholarship<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The Glenneth M. Anderson Environmental Studies Scholarship is awarded annually, on the recommendation of the Chair of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, to an outstanding student proceeding from Third to Fourth year of the honours program in Environmental Studies. Eligible students must be Canadian citizens and keenly interested in the environment and possess outstanding environmental awareness. Endowed in 2006 by Carleton Alumnus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Mifda Lafir Madani who has been awarded the Jessie and Wreford Watson Award in Geography! The Jessie and Wreford Watson Award in Geography is awarded annually to the outstanding student entering the final year of Honours Geography at Carleton University. Dr. Wreford Watson, then Chief Geographer of Canada, founded geography at Carleton in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"award"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27740","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=27740"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27744,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27740\/revisions\/27744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}