WATERLOO, Ont. (Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012) – More than 1,900 students crossed the stage at the University of Waterloo’s 105th Convocation this week. There were 1,170 undergraduate degrees and 769 graduate degrees handed out at ceremonies taking place over two days, ending today.

Among the highlights:

There were 660 master's degrees and 109 doctoral degrees conferred.

Waterloo presented four honorary degrees, recognized three distinguished professors emeriti and two people became honorary members of the university.

Kristin Laurin won the University of Waterloo Alumni Gold Medal for outstanding academic performance in a doctoral program.

John Doucette won the University of Waterloo Alumni Gold Medal for outstanding performance in a master's program.

Michele Morin-Guy won the James D. Leslie Prize for outstanding performance in studies by distance/online education.

Adriano Senatore was recognized for outstanding achievement in graduate studies (doctoral).

Shannon Van der Velden and Keylena Martens were recognized for outstanding achievement in graduate studies (master's).

Wayne Fox won the Arts Alumni Achievement Award.

Anson Lo won the K.D. Fryer Gold Medal for high academic standing in mathematics together with good student citizenship.

Olivia Szeto won the Accounting Alumni Award for Excellence in Accounting for outstanding academic performance in the Master of Accounting program.

Katie Gammie of geography/aviation won the departmental award for distinguished academic achievement.

John Champaign won the Amit and Meena Chakma awards for exceptional teaching by a student.

The ceremonies represented Professor Pearl Sullivan's first Convocation as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering.

About the University of Waterloo

In just half a century, the University of Waterloo, located at the heart of Canada's technology hub, has become one of Canada's leading comprehensive universities with 34,000 full- and part-time students in undergraduate and graduate programs. Waterloo, as home to the world's largest post-secondary co-operative education program, embraces its connections to the world and encourages enterprising partnerships in learning, research and discovery. In the next decade, the university is committed to building a better future for Canada and the world by championing innovation and collaboration to create solutions relevant to the needs of today and tomorrow. For more information about Waterloo, please visit www.uwaterloo.ca.

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