Acadia Alumni Awards Dinner

2024-04-18

You're invited to join us at 5:30 p.m. on April 18, 2024, at Pier 21 in Halifax for the Acadia Alumni Awards Dinner.

Every year, the Acadia community comes together and celebrates exceptional alumni, faculty, staff and students. This year, we are honouring Don Clow ('83), Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, Dr. Caroline Cochran, Acadia Alumni Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching recipient, and Spencer Richard, The Athenaeum and Acadia Alumni Student of the Year Award recipient.

Don Clow ('83), Acadia Alumni Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient

Don is a go-to kind of guy who always comes up clutch, and the rural PEI native has proven this time and again during his illustrious career as a student-athlete, businessperson, community advocate and philanthropist. The Acadia Alumni Association applauds his remarkable commitment to community, the University and its constituency, and is pleased to add another accolade to his resume by naming him as this year's Distinguished Alumni Award recipient.

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Dr. Caroline Cochran, Acadia Alumni Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching Recipient

Dr. Caroline Cochran has a passion for pedagogy and numbers. She loves to teach, and it all adds up to student success. Her energy, enthusiasm and commitment to mathematics and learning are infinite, and part of the reason why she is this year’s Acadia Alumni Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching recipient.

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Spencer Richard, The Athenaeum and Acadia Alumni Student of the Year Award recipient

If you were to combine talent, humility, intelligence, and grace in one person and say that individual was the epitome of what makes Acadia great, you would have Spencer Richard. A 4.0 GPA student, student-athlete and captain of the Acadia football Axemen, Academic All-Canadian, Sensory Motor Instructional Leadership Experience (S.M.I.L.E.) program leader, mentor and role model, Spencer has made the most of his time at Acadia. The Acadia Alumni Association takes tremendous pride in his many accomplishments, and is delighted to acknowledge him as the 2024 recipient of The Athenaeum and Acadia Alumni Student of the Year Award.

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