UNBC Student Wins Leadership Award
Saturday, March 30, 2013 @ 9:02 AM
(3M award recipient Stephanie Doherty. Photo courtesy UNBC)
Prince George, B.C. – An environmental engineering student at the University of Northern British Columbia has been awarded one of only ten 3M National Student Fellowships.
Second year student Stephanie Doherty is the only student from a BC post-secondary institution to receive this distinction, which honours outstanding student leadership and vision. She is the third UNBC student to receive the honour in the past two years. She receives a $5000 award.
Doherty was nominated for the leadership she showed through her involvement with the Prince George Public Interest Research Group where she worked as a research assistant studying the feasibility of an expanded compost system at UNBC. She was also employed at UNBC in September to conduct a waste audit of the student residences on campus in order to collect data for the project.
“I’d like to thank those involved at UNBC who were instrumental in my winning this award,” says Doherty, who attended Westside Academy in Prince George.
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This is not a put down on the young lady but it says loads on where this uni is headed, right onto the compost heap.
How about something like medical research!
I guess that is where the grants are, mention green and the cash just rolls in.
Mention UNBC, any kind of green initiative and especially the two of them together and in rolls seamutt, keyboard a blazing.
Negativity is contagious, but so is positivity. So I think what you really meant was “Good job Stephanie, I wish you luck in your studies and thanks for your initiative in our world!” And in which case, I agree!! Good job, and thanks for your work!
Ya but compost. I hardly blaze a keyboard dude. Just what is this green thing anyhow? Billions of people are hungry and starve each day because so called green denies them cheap energy while we play with compost piles. Just does not give me that warm and fuzzy feeling.
I have come to the conclusion that at least 80% of O250’s demographic is a bunch of crotchety old men who are obviously not happy with their lives and feel the need to poo on everything they read…
Congratulations. Stephanie Doherty!
Congratulations to Stephanie.
Last year there were 2 winners from UNBC who won the 5000$ 3M prizes. One from Environmental studies and another from Health sciences [1].
[1] http://www.opinion250.com/blog/view/23932/1/unbc+students+clinch+2+of+10+national+fellowships?id=140&st=880
“Just what is this green thing anyhow?”
Oh you know, just striving for sustainability (I suggest you look it up, dude.) and preserving the future that we hope to have. People like you who can’t take the time to change small things for the greater good are the ones that are dragging the rest of us into the end of humanity. Did you know that we only have one earth? ONE. And at the rate that were consuming, we need at least five earths to survive now. So, it’s thanks to people like Stephanie, and all those what are actually educating themselves on the issue at hand, that we might find a way to survive through the stupidity and idiotic actions of you and your stone heavy, and lazy counterparts. Get off of my earth, its the only one I have, and if your going continue messing it up, I don’t want you here.
Also. We can’t possibly fix starvation, extreme poverty or any other issues with humans, if there are no humans. And no earth = no humans. Though there might be people who think that’s the solution, I think not. We have to fix our problems before we can expect to help others. Otherwise it’s just blind idiots leading the vulnerable and needy. And they don’t deserve that, not at all.
Speaking of sustainability, the question is whether the research and programs on environmental sustainability are sustainable in a university which is starving itself and becoming financially unsustainable.
A diversification strategy for sustainability of UNBC is needed. I.e. more students in health programs and environmental studies, and more engineering programs and students …
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