2008 Recipients

Professor Patricia Anne Monture

On Thursday, June 12, 2008 an Honorary Doctor of Laws was conferred on Professor Patricia Anne Monture, Director of the Aboriginal Justice and Criminology program at the University of Saskatchewan. Professor Monture’s commitment to academic excellence in both research and teaching has had a tremendous effect on Indigenous Studies, Women’s Studies, Law and Sociology. She is a highly sought-after international lecturer, whose work has been acknowledged by Indigenous communities world-wide.

Dr. Janice Morse

Science was conferred on Dr. Janice Morse, Professor and the Ida May “Dotty” Barnes, RN , and D. Keith Barnes, MD, Presidential Endowed Chair in the College of Nursing at the University of Utah. Dr. Morse has effectively reached an international audience of scholars in the fields of nursing and the health sciences. She has written extensively in the field of qualitative methodology, was instrumental in the conceptualization and building of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology (based at the University of Alberta), is the founding editor of Qualitative Health Research, and has been called the “driving force” behind a new web-based journal, The International Journal of Qualitative Methods.

Interview and original tape recordings Dr. Janice Morse discusses the significance of care in the work nurses do, Aurora. 1990.

Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen

On Saturday, June 14, 2008 an Honorary Doctor of Athabasca University was conferred on Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen, Chief Technology Officer, and co-founder of One Laptop per Child, a non-profit company whose humanitarian mission is to deliver low-cost laptops en-masse to the disadvantaged children of developing countries. Dr. Jepsen is a widely regarded expert in display systems – from computer encoding, to circuitry, drive schemes, light modulation, manufacturing and optics, and she is largely responsible for the ingenious design of the laptops to be distributed through the One Laptop per Child initiative.