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Graduate students, Western scholar earn national awards for outstanding leadership

Western News, April 5, 2023
By Keri Ferguson

Three members of the Western community are being recognized for their commitment to academic excellence, service and empowering leadership.

Faculty of Education professor Kathy Hibbert, and PhD candidates Effie Sapuridis (Media Studies) and Olivia Ghosh-Swaby (Neuroscience) have been announced as recipients of 2023 Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada (SWAAC) awards.

Hibbert is being recognized as an influential leader, earning SWAAC’s top honour for senior women in higher education leadership.

Linda Miller, vice-provost (graduate and postdoctoral studies) said the student recipients were selected from “a tremendously strong pool of outstanding nominees from across Western’s campus and three University colleges,” before being judged against candidates from around the country.

The awards will be presented at the annual SWAAC conference, held this year at Western, May 4-6 (continue reading).