Bastions of BPK Graduate Student Convocation Award

This prestigious award recognizes exemplary BPK MSc and PhD graduates who, throughout their degrees, have had a profound and positive impact on the culture and community within the BPK graduate student body and department. Through their leadership, mentorship, engagement, volunteer and committee work, kinship is cultivated, and ideas and initiatives are brought to life. BPK Bastions are strongholds of the BPK community, whose contributions have enriched graduate student life and fortified the BPK department, leaving a lasting legacy.

2021 Dr. Amanda Bakkum

2021 Dr. Vera-Ellen Lucci

2022 Dr. Brooke Hockin

2023 Dr. Olivia Aguiar

2023 Dr. Matthew Dorton 

2024 Dr. Kyle Simpson

2025 Dr. Erin Williams