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Fifth-year civil engineering student
Jérémie Roy
received a certificate of
excellence in geotechnics from the Faculty of engineering.
Sébastien Deschênes
, professor and accounting department director,
Faculty of business administration, was appointed secretary treasurer of
the New Brunswick Institute of Chartered Accountants (NBICA) and chair of
the Mouvement des caisses populaires acadiennes association’s board of
directors.
Mathematics and statistics professor
Jules de Tibeiro
was appointed for a
first three-year mandate to the Statistical Society of Canada’s statistical
education executive committee.
Corinne Gallant
, professor emeritus and former associate dean of arts, was
the recipient of the New Brunswick Human Rights Award.
Amanda Horsman
, reference librarian at the Champlain library, achieved
senior member status with the Academy of Health Information
Professionals (AHIP).
Professor
Suzanne Dupuis-Blanchard
was elected president of the
Canadian Association on Gerontology (CAG) for a two-year mandate.
Marc Surette
, professor of biochemistry and holder of the New Brunswick
Innovation Research Chair in Biosciences, was celebrated as the 2014
senior health researcher of the year at the New Brunswick Health Research
Foundation’s Gala of Excellence.
Retired visual arts professor
Claude Roussel
received the Order of Moncton,
the City of Moncton’s highest honour.
The Faculty of law team of
Marie-Gabrielle Gagnon
,
Mathieu Girouard
,
Élaine
Lang
and
Kevin Moreau
, led by professor
Malaïka Bacon-Dussault
, won the
prize for the best Francophone team in the prestigious 2015 Gale Cup Moot.
Law student
Élaine Lang
also won the McLachlin Prize awarded to the best
female mooter.
Third-year Bachelor of mathematics co-op student
Sébastien Lord
was the
recipient of the 2015 President’s Award. The award promotes excellence in
research among Université de Moncton students by recognizing the year’s
best scientific publication by a student.
Mélissa Roy
was awarded a $15,000 scholarship as part of the Frank H.
Sobey Award for Excellence in Business Studies program. She is a Bachelor
of business administration finance major.
In June 2014, professors
Samira Barmaki
and
Stéphane Laulan
published
a major article in Physical Review A, the most important atomic, molecular
and optical physics journal in terms of impact and notoriety.
Professors
Michelle Landry
(sociology) and
Maurice Beaudin
(economics)
contributed to the composite book entitled
Fifty Years of Official
Bilingualism: Challenges, Analyses and Testimonies
.
Forestry professor
Stephen Wyatt
published two articles in the Naturaliste
du NB Naturalist journal (vol. 41, no 1, 2014), one of which was co-authored
with professor
Michel Soucy
.
Sandra Dumoulin
, a Bachelor of information management student,
participated in the 83
rd
annual conference of the Association francophone
pour le savoir (ACFAS). Her project put cyberbullying prevention in the
school environment on the monitoring radar.
Dominique Babineau
, from St-Joseph-de-Madawaska, Bachelor of business
administration, concentration in marketing;
Alexis Couture
, from Dieppe,
Faculty of law graduate;
Myriam Pâquet
, from Bathurst, Bachelor of arts,
received the
Bleu et Or Order of Merit
. This prestigious award is presented
to graduates who have demonstrated outstanding academic performance
and leadership in extracurricular activities.
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