Congratulations to the 2017/2018 Freda Pagani Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2017/2018 recipients of the Freda Pagani Award for Outstanding Master’s Thesis and the Freda Pagani Award for Outstanding PhD Dissertation!

 

Freda Pagani Award for Outstanding Master’s Thesis

Liz Williams

Content and Prevalence of Environmentalist Stereotypes in Canada: A Psychological Perspective

 

 

 

 

Freda Pagani Award for Outstanding PhD Dissertation

Kieran Findlater

Explaining Climate-Sensitive Decision-Making: On the Relationship Between Cognitive Logic and Climate-Adaptive Behaviour

 

 

 

The Freda Pagani Awards have been endowed by family and friends for graduate students in the Resources, Environment and Sustainability graduate program. As founder and director of the Sustainability Office at UBC, Freda helped to develop green building guidelines for campus facilities, initiated an energy management program, created the UBC Social, Ecological, Economic, Development Students Program (SEEDS), and developed a community energy and water plan. In addition, Freda led the creation of the University’s first ecologically friendly building, the C.K. Choi Building.

 

Congratulations Liz and Kieran!