{"id":33186,"date":"2025-11-10T09:46:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T14:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/?p=33186"},"modified":"2025-11-11T09:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:01:03","slug":"congratulations-to-nishtha-hurrydass-and-alyson-mckay-recipients-of-the-soan-undergraduate-indigenous-black-and-racialized-students-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/2025\/congratulations-to-nishtha-hurrydass-and-alyson-mckay-recipients-of-the-soan-undergraduate-indigenous-black-and-racialized-students-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Nishtha Hurrydass\u00a0and\u00a0Alyson McKay, Recipients of the SOAN Undergraduate Indigenous, Black, and Racialized Students Scholarship!"},"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 Nishtha Hurrydass\u00a0and\u00a0Alyson McKay, Recipients of the SOAN Undergraduate Indigenous, Black, and Racialized Students Scholarship!\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, The Department of Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) is proud to announce&nbsp;<strong>two&nbsp;<\/strong>recipients of the<em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/futurefunder.carleton.ca\/giving-fund\/sociology-and-anthropology-award-for-black-indigenous-and-racialized-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scholarship for SOAN Undergraduate Indigenous, Black and Racialized Students<\/a>.<\/em>&nbsp;We are thrilled to honor&nbsp;<strong>Nishtha Hurrydass<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Alyson McKay<\/strong>&nbsp;for their outstanding achievements and contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Nishtha and Alyson have shown great dedication to their academic and community efforts, and we are proud to present them with this well-deserved recognition. Their contributions to the department are greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to both recipients! We are so excited to see what you will continue to achieve in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"948\" data-id=\"33179\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2025\/11\/Nishtha-Hurrydass-1024x948.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2025\/11\/Nishtha-Hurrydass-1024x948.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2025\/11\/Nishtha-Hurrydass-512x474.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2025\/11\/Nishtha-Hurrydass-320x296.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2025\/11\/Nishtha-Hurrydass-768x711.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2025\/11\/Nishtha-Hurrydass.jpg 1151w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" data-id=\"33204\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2025\/11\/Alyson-\u1472\u1450\u1583\u1585-McKay.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2025\/11\/Alyson-\u1472\u1450\u1583\u1585-McKay.jpg 900w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2025\/11\/Alyson-\u1472\u1450\u1583\u1585-McKay-512x683.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2025\/11\/Alyson-\u1472\u1450\u1583\u1585-McKay-320x427.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2025\/11\/Alyson-\u1472\u1450\u1583\u1585-McKay-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, The Department of Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) is proud to announce&nbsp;two&nbsp;recipients of the&nbsp;Scholarship for SOAN Undergraduate Indigenous, Black and Racialized Students.&nbsp;We are thrilled to honor&nbsp;Nishtha Hurrydass&nbsp;and&nbsp;Alyson McKay&nbsp;for their outstanding achievements and contributions. Both Nishtha and Alyson have shown great dedication to their academic and community efforts, and we are proud to present them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":29628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,61,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-departmental-blog","category-students","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33210,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33186\/revisions\/33210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}