18 - Friday, September 14, 1990 - North Shore News

North Shore students
named top SFU scholars

WEST VANCOUVER native
Denise Clark and former Hand-
sworth Secondary School student
Peter McCorquodale have been
named two of the top scholars at
Simon Fraser University (SFU).

Clark, 30, a geneticist, has won
two of SFU's highest graduate
awards: the Governor Gencral’s
Gold Medal for top academic
achievement in graduate studies
and the Dean of Graduate
Studies’ Convocation Medal in
Science.

Clark managed to reach a grade
point average of 4.0 while study-
ing for her PhD in molecular
genetics.

Clark has also published three
times in international research
journals and is in the process of
writing two more papers.

in 1986, Clark received the
prestigious Arthur Minton schol-
arship from the Muscular
Dystrophy Association of Canada.
Only one of these awards is given
out each year.

Clark is now pursuing
postgraduate research at the Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Cen-
tre in Seattle.

Meanwhile, McCorquodale,
who entered SFU in 1985 on a
Gordon M. Shrum scholarship,
after placing second overall in the
B.C. provincial high school ex-
ams, has graduated with SFU’s
highest undergraduate award: the
Governor-Generai’s Silver Medal.

At the end of his freshman
year, the 22-year-old worn a
Fesseden-Trott scholarship, valued

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Denise Clark ...shares honor
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at more than $6,000 annually over

three years. The award was for
the 4.3) grade point average he
managed while carrying a heavier
than normal work load.

Other awards he bas won in-
clude the Rudi Havering award in
physics in 1988 as that depart-
ment’s most outstanding under-
graduate, the Goel memorial
scholarship in 1989 for excellence
in the department of mathematics
and statistics and the Putnam
awards in each of those two years
for placing in the top [0 per cent
on the North American-wide
William Lowell Putnam mathe-
matical competition.

McCerquodale is now studying
for his PhD at Stanford Universi-
ty in the United States.

In other post secondary educa-
tion news, North Vancouver’s
Marilyn Siegal graduated from
Montreal’s McGill University in
June with a doctoral degree in
education.

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