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Graduate Convocation Medal Award Winners 2024

May 28, 2024

by Stacey Makortoff

Congratulations to this year’s Convocation Medal winners! They will receive their awards at each of their convocation ceremonies June 11-14, 2024.

Profiles for the recipients are in the works. Check back soon to read more about the recipients and why they've earned these distinguished awards!

Governor General’s Gold Medals

The Governor General’s Gold Medals are awarded to the two SFU graduate students who achieve the highest academic standing upon graduation from a master’s or doctoral degree program.

Zhiqin Chen, PhD, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Computing Science (Profile Coming Soon!)

  • Thesis Title: Neural Mesh Reconstruction

Nicola Mulberry, PhD, Faculty of Science, Applied and Computational Mathematics (Profile Coming Soon!)

  • Thesis Title: The mechanisms behind the spread: Infections disease models and applications

Dean of Graduate Studies Convocation Medals

The Convocation Medals for graduate studies recognize graduating students from each faculty whose cumulative grade-point averages place them in the top five per cent of their class.

Philippa Adams, PhD, Faculty of Communication, Arts, and Technology, Communication (Profile Coming Soon!)

  • Thesis Title: Higher Further Faster: Social Media Discourses of Feminism, Misogyny, and Captain Marvel
Marieh Azizirad, PhD, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Economics (Profile Coming Soon!)
  • Thesis Title: Three essays on the importance of the liquidity premium in monetary economics
Steven Blaber, PhD, Faculty of Science, Physics (Profile Coming Soon!)
  • Thesis Title: Energetically efficient control of stochastic thermodynamic systems
Florian Herla, PhD, Faculty of Environment, Geography (Profile Coming Soon!)
  • Thesis Title: Improving the applicability of large-scale distributed snowpack simulations for operatinal use in avalanche forecasting

Amy Hsieh, PhD, Faculty of Science, Earth Sciences (Profile Coming Soon!)

  • Thesis Title: Influence of a rapidly uplifting orogen on the preservation of climate signals

Christopher Hynes, PhD, Faculty of Applied Science, Engineering Science (Profile Coming Soon!)

  • Thesis Title: Reception of dipole sourcse using dual-loaded antennas

Joey Lam, PhD, Beedie School of Business, Business Administration (Profile Coming Soon!)

  • Thesis Title: The Stories that B2B Salespeople Tell in Online Job Reviews: Three Essays

Michael Pruner, PhD, Faculty of Education, Education (Profile Coming Soon!)

  • Thesis Title: Complexity and collaborative problem solving

Poh Tan, PhD, Faculty of Education, Education (Profile Coming Soon!)

  • Thesis Title: Extending Scientific Literacy through Indigenous Hawaiian Epistemology: Navigating Scientific Seas with Hula

Ronaldo Au Yeung, MA, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Political Science (Profile Coming Soon!)

  • Thesis Title: Neoclassical realism and the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis revisited

Stefanie Machado, PhD, Faculty of Health Sciences, Health Sciences  

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