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OTTAWA, June 14, 2011  —  Today the University of Ottawa will proudly award diplomas to 421 students of the Faculty of Science, as well as to 811 from the Faculty of Health Sciences. This will be done during three ceremonies, at 9:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, in Southam Hall.

Along with our talented students, two leading figures will be honoured:

Neil Turok was professor of physics at Princeton University until assuming the chair of mathematical physics at Cambridge University, where he collaborated with Stephen Hawking on the Hawking-Turok instanton solutions. In 2008, he became director of the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo and he has established science academies in Africa to cultivate young scientists.
Ceremony X – Faculty of Science – 9:30 a.m.

Joé Juneau, NHL player, graduate engineer and founder of a hockey education program in Nunavik, played on the silver medal-winning 1992 Canadian Olympic team and then on five Stanley Cup finalists. After his retirement from the NHL, he initiated a social and community youth development program in Nunavik that uses ice hockey as a tool to promote education while preventing criminality.
Ceremony XI – Faculty of Health Sciences I – 2:30 p.m.