{"id":4093,"date":"2021-03-30T15:31:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T18:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islandstudies.com\/?p=4093"},"modified":"2021-03-30T15:31:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T18:31:22","slug":"mais-news-student-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/testforneal\/2021\/03\/30\/mais-news-student-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"MAIS News: Student Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>March 30, 2021 \u2014<\/em><br \/><strong>MAIS Student wins UPEI Faculty Association <em>Master&#8217;s Medal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/islandstudies.com\/files\/2021\/03\/Joyce-Ferguson-UPEIFA-Masters-medal-vertical-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/testforneal\/files\/2021\/03\/Joyce-Ferguson-UPEIFA-Masters-medal-vertical-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/testforneal\/files\/2021\/03\/Joyce-Ferguson-UPEIFA-Masters-medal-vertical-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/testforneal\/files\/2021\/03\/Joyce-Ferguson-UPEIFA-Masters-medal-vertical-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/testforneal\/files\/2021\/03\/Joyce-Ferguson-UPEIFA-Masters-medal-vertical.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">Congratulations to Master of Arts in Island Studies (MAIS) student Joyce Ferguson for winning this year&#8217;s UPEI Faculty Association&#8217;s Master&#8217;s medal for her work on \u201cPrince Edward Island and Renewable Energy: The Preconditions for a Sustainable Future.\u201d The thesis, with co-supervisors Drs. Jean Mitchell and Udo Krautwurst, examines the relationship between energy policy and community in her home province of PEI through a case study of the wind farm expansion controversy in eastern Kings County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">ABOUT JOYCE<br \/>Joyce Ferguson graduated from UPEI with an Honours BA in Sociology, where she was on the Dean&#8217;s Honours List, and received one the Ambrose Kwok-Yau Lee Awards for 2018-19, the Roderick Stirling MacDonald Scholarship, and the Dr. Satadal Dasgupta Memorial Award. She was awarded a Future Prosperity Scholarship when she entered the MAIS program and has since received a Canada Graduate Master&#8217;s Scholarship from SSHRC. Joyce and her family live in Rustico and she is the very proud mother of nine-year-old Leo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background\" href=\"http:\/\/islandstudies.com\/mais-program\/\" style=\"background-color:#0071a1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Learn more about the Master of Arts in Island Studies Program<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 30, 2021 \u2014MAIS Student wins UPEI Faculty Association Master&#8217;s Medal Congratulations to Master of Arts in Island Studies (MAIS) student Joyce Ferguson for winning this year&#8217;s UPEI Faculty Association&#8217;s Master&#8217;s medal for her work on \u201cPrince Edward Island and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/testforneal\/2021\/03\/30\/mais-news-student-awards\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,75,80,107],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/testforneal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/testforneal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/testforneal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/testforneal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/testforneal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/testforneal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/testforneal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/testforneal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/testforneal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}