115 BSN graduates tipped their cap to the Chancellor on May 31, 2018. Also crossing the stage were two MPH/MSN grads, ten MHLP graduates, 15 MSN graduates, 16 MNNP Graduates, and three PhD Nursing graduates. Celebrations continued at the Robert H Lee Alumni Centre.
This year, each recipient of the Outstanding Completion Project Award receives the J Kirstine Griffith Memorial Graduate Scholarship in Nursing to recognize their outstanding contribution to nursing research and scholarship.
The award has been made available through an endowment established by the Estate of Braham Griffith in memory of his wife, Jean Kirstine Griffith.
Dr Braham Griffith (1901-1998) taught at UBC for over three decades in the Faculty of Forestry, from 1936 to 1967.
Jean Kirstine Griffith (1922-2014) graduated from UBC in 1945 with her BASc in nursing. She returned to UBC for her MA in education in 1969. Mrs Griffith was appointed a senior instructor at Vancouver General Hospital in 1969 and worked there for 26 years.
Awards
- Janet Macdonald Rush Prize | Julie Oltmann Plesner & Ajantheni Tharmaratnam
- Outstanding MHLP Graduate | Sarah Chui
- J. Kirstine Griffith Memorial Graduate Scholarship in Nursing (PhD Dissertation) | Jennifer Stephens
- J. Kirstine Griffith Memorial Graduate Scholarship in Nursing (MSN Thesis) | Manpreet Thandi
- Pauline Capelle Memorial Prize in Nursing | Amal Alharbi & Manpreet Thandi
- Undergraduate Nursing Society Leadership Award | Sarah Elbert, Camille Brockmann & Kathleen Lamb
- Helen L. Balfour Prize | Shannon Martin
- Dell & Del Johnson Memorial Prize in Nursing | Emma Bodnar
- Meg Hickling Prize in Sexual Health Education and Development | Katherine Wanamaker-Briggs & Jaskiran Kaur
