KEGS Foundation Scholarship Students at the March 3rd, 2012 KEGS Symposium in Toronto

The KEGS Foundation was very pleased to welcome twelve of the current twenty scholarship students who were able to attend the excellent KEGS Symposium on March 3 and/or the stimulating KEGS Breakfast on March 6, thanks to additional support provided by the Foundation and by various sponsoring companies for these events. The photos below show the participating KEGS Foundation scholarship students, plus the two most recent Don Salt scholarship recipients (Faith Meadows and Yijian Meng, UofT) and the first JESteers Field School Bursary recipient, Danica Pascua (also Uoft). Most of these students also took advantage of the many educational and professional opportunities offered by the PDAC convention (March 4-7).

Front row: Innocent Ezenwa (UWO), Majid El Baroudi (ULaval), Jessica Steeves (Queens), Michal Kolaj (Laurentian), Janet Hart (UWindsor)
Back row: Ryan Nader (Carleton), Stephen Reford (Dir.), Ramin Saleh (UofT), Pamela Patraskovic (UofT).

Scholarship Students and Foundation Directors attending the 2012 KEGS Breakfast (March 3, Toronto)

Front row (L to R): Pamela Patraskovic (UofT), Jessica Steeves (Queens), Danica Pascua (UofT), Faith Meadows (UofT), Erica Vertefeuille (Queens), Janet Hart (UWindsor) & Yves Lamontagne (Dir.)
Middle row: Adrian Smith (Western), Ryan Nader (Carleton), Michal Kolaj (Laurentian) & Stephen Reford (Dir.)
Rear: Jerry Roth (Dir.), Yijian Meng (UofT), Innocent Ezenwa (Western), Laurie Reed (Dir.) & Ramin Saleh (UofT)

Phil Hallof's January 12th, 2012 induction into Mining Hall of Fame

Phil Hallof's January 12th, 2012 induction into Mining Hall of Fame celebrated by Lois Hallof (centre), with friends, former Phoenix colleagues, WAMIC Execs and KEGS members.

December 2011 Scholarship Presentation at KEGS/UofT Meeting

UWO scholarship recipients Adrian Smith & Innocent Ezenwa (first row) received awards and congratulations from Foundation Directors (Reford, Roth & Reed) at December 7th KEGS/UofT meeting.

December 2011 Scholarship Presentation at the University of Saskatchewan

Scholarship recipients Christine Shiels and Hoai Nam Vinh (USask) with Prof. Jim Merriam.

November 23, 2011 KEGS/Québec Breakfast

Jean Legault, KEGS, presents GSC Pioneers Scholarship to Majid El Baroudi, Laval University at Nov 23 KEGS/Québec breakfast.

Presentation of 2011 Scholarships at KEGS-Ottawa
Meeting Nov 17

Scholarship recipients (L to R) Ryan Nader and Ray Caron (Carleton), and Michal Kolaj (Laurentian).

Davin Allen, FASC Ottawa (L) presents Fugro Scholarship to Michal Kolaj, PhD candidate, Laurentian (R).

Scholarship Awards Presented to Queens Students
at November 8, 2011 KEGS Meeting.

Queens students (L to R) Erica Vertefeuille and Jessica Steeves pictured with Foundation Directors Stephen Reford and Jerry Roth.

2011 Scholarship Awards: UofT Presentations

UofT scholarship recipients (from L to R) Pamela Patraskovic, Ramin Saleh and Filip Medinac (with chair Jerry Roth), plus book award recipient Kanita Khaled (in front), at award presentation at October KEGS meeting.