Academic career is memorable for UFV Young Distinguished Alumni winner Tanya Jonker

Tanya Joker will never forget her years at the University of the Fraser Valley. They helped launch her into an exciting academic career researching the mechanisms of memory retrieval. Now a PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo, Jonker graduated from UFV in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology. She has been chosen as the Young Distinguished Alumni award winner at UFV for 2014.

Now a PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo, Jonker graduated from UFV in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology. She has been chosen as the Young Distinguished Alumni award winner at UFV for 2014.

Jonker received her award from UFV Alumni Association chair Justin P. Goodrich at the UFV Giving Thanks donor and alumni appreciation event on Oct. 8.

“I’m very honoured to receive this award,” she noted. “It’s not something I expected so early in my career.”

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