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Nearly 2,000 students are preparing to graduate from Simon Fraser University this fall. Ceremonies are planned for the mornings (9:45 a.m.) and afternoons (2:30 p.m.) of Thursday, Oct. 8 and Friday, Oct. 9.

Students will attend ceremonies as follows:

Oct. 8 morning ceremony: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

• Honorary degree recipient: Stewart Blusson, Vancouver diamond pioneer and philanthropist who has donated more than $100 million to fund Canadian medical research and education, including a record $12-million to SFU to support work in its new Faculty of Health Sciences.

Oct. 8 afternoon ceremony: Faculties of Applied Sciences; Communication, Art and Technology; Health Sciences

• Honorary degree recipient: Victor Gomel, professor and former head of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UBC, internationally known for his pioneering work in reproductive surgery, operative laparoscopy, and women’s health, and the establishment of the Women’s Health Center at the B.C. Women’s Hospital.

Oct. 9 morning ceremony: Faculty of Business, Faculty of the Environment

• Honorary degree recipient: Louise Arbour, Montreal-born former Canadian Supreme Court justice and UN human rights high commissioner, and chief prosecutor to the 1990s tribunals examining war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Rwanda and in the former Yugoslavia.

Oct. 9 afternoon ceremony: Faculty of Education, Faculty of Science

• Honorary degree recipient: John Willinsky, a Toronto-born Stanford University education professor and pioneer of ‘open access’.  He founded (in 1988) the Public Knowledge Project, which developed free online publishing systems in partnership with the SFU Library that continue to increase the global sharing of research.

Each ceremony will be broadcast live online in streaming video, at www.lidc.sfu.ca/broadcast.

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