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Marianne Meadahl, Media&PR, 604.291.4323;marianne_meadahl@sfu.ca

Graduation is just around the corner for some 2,800 SFU students, the largest class of students eligible to take part in SFU’s spring convocation. Ceremonies recognizing their achievements will be held on June 2, 3 and 4.

Two ceremonies will be held each day, beginning at 9:45 am and 2:30 pm. Graduands, donned in blue caps and gowns and led by the SFU pipe band, will participate in processions leading them past the AQ reflecting pond and down the steps into Convocation Mall. The ceremonies will recognize students in the following fields of study:

Wednesday am:
Arts, including cognitive science, criminology, humanities, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and special arrangement degrees.
Wednesday pm:
Arts, including anthropology, archaeology, Canadian studies, contemporary arts, French, geography, history, Spanish and Latin American studies, political science, women’s studies, as well as master’s programs in fine arts, liberal studies, and publishing.
Thursday am:
Arts, including economics, English, and all bachelor of general studies degrees.
Thursday pm:
Applied sciences
Friday am:
Business
Friday pm:
Education and science

Honorary degrees will be conferred on the following seven individuals:

Wednesday am:
Janine Fuller, manager of Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium, who has played a leading role in a historic legal battle against censorship;

Wednesday pm:
Daryl Duke, an Emmy-award winning film director and producer, and a recipient of the lifetime achievement award from the directors’ guild of Canada;

Thursday am:
Madame Justice Lynn Smith, UBC’s first female dean of law and a founder, director and chair of the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF);

Thursday pm:
Nancy Greene Raine, Olympic gold medal skier, now a spokesperson for the 2010 Olympic games in Vancouver;

Friday am:
Don Rix, a philanthropist and co-owner of MDS Metro, which has interests in more than 100 private medical laboratories in Western Canada, and
Stephen Lewis, Former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations who most recently served as the UN Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Africa;

Friday pm:
Marco Marra, co-director of the Genome Sequencing Centre and mapping group, an SFU alumnus and adjunct professor of molecular biology and biochemistry.

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