The following are some highlights of our faculty and students over the past four years:
Posted: July 30, 2010
Successful Student Award
Congratulations to Sandra Bornemann for receiving a Graduate In-course Merit Scholarship for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Posted: July 14, 2010
Dr. Janice Keefe wins award at Spring 2010 Convocation
The department of Family Studies & Gerontology is pleased to announced that Dr. Janice Keefe is the recipient of the Award for Research Excellence. The award was presented during the Spring 2010 Convocation.Congratulations Janice!
Updated: July 14, 2010
Successful student award!
Congratulations to Rachel MacDougall for receiving an in-course merit scholarship for the 2008/2009 school year as well as the 2009/2010 school year! Rachel also recieved the Gerontology Association of Nova Scotia's Student Excellence Award for 2009!
Posted: October 21, 2008
Second year in a row for winning the Graduate Thesis Award!
We are very proud to announce that for the second year in a row, a student from our graduate program, Kathy Petite has won the Graduate Thesis Award, presented at the fall convocation. Kathy's thesis was titled "Tinker, tailor! Soldier, sailor! Mother? Making sense of the competing institutions of motherhood and the military". Her supervisor was Dr. Deborah Norris, and her committee members were Dr. Áine Humble and Dr. Cyndia Brannen. Kathy Petite also received a Senate Medal of Distinction.
Posted: June 16, 2008
Congratulations to Shannon McEvenue again!
Congratulations to Shannon for receiving the 2008 Governor General's Academic Medal (for graduate students) at the May 2008 convocation- a job well done!!
Posted: June 16, 2008
Dr. Gasek's retirement!
After 28 years at the Mount, Dr. Gasek is moving on to other things, such as writing world-famous symphonies, becoming a Master's champion in long distance running, drinking great beer, and working at Mariposa, his literacy clinics, located throughout the province. Dr. Gasek was well known and appreciated for his support of students, his contributions to the department of Gerontology and the department of Family Studies and Gerontology, and for his wonderful sense of humour. We will miss you!!
Posted: October 22, 2007
Congratulations to grad students at the Fall 2007 Convocation!
We were very pleased to find out that two graduate students in our program received awards at the fall convocation. Shannon McEvenue received a Senate medal for having the highest aggregate in the FSGN grad program, and she also received the 2007 Graduate Thesis award. Chantal Brushett was one of two graduate students to receive a President's Award, recognising her campus service for the two years she was Student Union president.
Posted: July 3, 2007
Graduate Students Attend CIHR's "Summer Program on Aging".
Three of our graduate students--Pamela Ross, Nadine Brun, and Rachel MacDougall-- attended the Canadian Institute for Health Research's (CIHR) Summer Program on Aging, and came back energized and rejuvenated about aging research. This annual program, which took place this year over four days in BC, exposed these students to many aspects of research on aging, including learning about grant writing, submitting papers to the Canadian Journal on Aging, and networking. Registration funding from Dr. Humble and Dr. Keefe (FSGN) and Dr. Shiner (Business and Tourism) helped them to attend this important learning/networking opportunity.
Also, congratulations to the following faculty members for their recent achievements:
Dr. Áine Humble and Dr. Janice Keefe received a grant from the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation (NSHRF) to examine the connection between caregiving, involuntary retirement, and gender. Dr. Humble is also part of a team that just received funding to look at retirement issues for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Finally, Dr. Deborah Norris also received a grant from NSHRF to explore the service needs of individuals with intellectual disabilities.
Both Dr. Keefe and Dr. Felicia Eghan recently received awards for papers they presented at conferences. Dr. Keefe received the Novartis Pharma Award for Best Research for her paper, Developing new strategies to support caregivers of the aged in Canada: Projections of need and their policy implications, at the Union for the Scientific Study of Population's XXVUSSP International Population Conference in Tours, France. Dr. Eghan received an award at the Canadian Association for Research In Home Economics conference.