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Congratulations to our staff, students, faculty and alumni on their recent achievements:

• Steve Aiken (Human Communication Disorders) and his team of co-investigators including Jian Wang (Human Communication Disorders) and Michael Kiefte (Human Communication Disorders) have received an $18,000 grant from the Hearing Foundation of Canada for their project "Objective Assessment of Age-Related Temporal Processing Dysfunction."
• Wanda Thomas Bernard (Social Work) was awarded the BBPA Harry Jerome Award in recognition of her community service.  The BBPA Harry Jerome Awards are given to leaders of the African-Canadian community across Canada, and are a coveted symbol of acheivement.  Dr. Thomas Bernard received her award at a gala in Toronto on April 25.
• Congratulations to Nursing student Valerie Young for being selected to attend the Arctic Academy in Korea. Valerie is one of 12 successful candidates selected from around the world.  She is entering her 3rd year in the BScN (Arctic Nursing) program at Nunavut Arctic College (NAC). For the last 15 years, the AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ School of Nursing has had a partnership with NAC to deliver the AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ BScN (Arctic Nursing).
  The Arctic Academy is a one week study pilot program sponsored by the Korea Maritime Institute and the University of the Arctic held in August.  In the Academy, students will hear presentations on local and Arctic issues by Korean and international experts.  Students will also visit the Korean public scientific organizations, institutes, and research centres. Valerie will represent Nunavut Arctic College and Canada at this event in Korea.
• Christine Cassidy, a PhD student in the School of Nursing, was the recipient of this year's Faculty of Health Professions Graduate Student Excellence in Research Award.  Christine's research project "Improving the use of sexual health services among university students in Nova Scotia: A knowledge translation approach" is supervised by Janet Curran (Nursing) and funded by a CIHR Doctoral Research Award, a AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ Presidents Award, an NSHRF Scotia Scholar Award and an Honorary Killam Scholar Award.  Christine received her award at the IHRTP Graduate Student Research Day on May 20, 2015.