Arch Awards

Submitted by currys on Thu, 2007-04-26 11:11.

2009 Recipients Announced

Graduates from the University of Calgary are changing the world--from international peacekeeping to space exploration to expanding the frontiers of science and medicine. Our 130,000 graduates make remarkable contributions to business, health, social and cultural life in Calgary and in 135 countries around the world.

The Arch Awards recognize the achievements of two outstanding alumni--the Distinguished Alumni Award (DAA) and Graduate of the Last Decade (GOLD) Award--and for the first time in 2009, a promising future alumnus with the Future Alumni Award.

We're pleased to announce our 2009 Arch Award recipients are Peter K.K. Wong, BSc'83, Jeffrey Veale, BSc’97, MD’00, and Mark Blackwell, a third-year BComm student at the Haskayne School of Business. They’re changing our world. Now, we proudly give them our highest honour. Find out more about our distinguished alumni family and these richly deserving recipients, who inspire today's students and make the entire University of Calgary community proud.

	2009 Distinguished Alumni Award Peter K.K. Wong, BSc'83 Peter K.K. Wong combines Confucian traditions with Western management skills in leading the Kum Shing Group, a Hong Kong-based engineering and construction firm. Kum Shing has earned a strong reputation of corporate social responsibility, having funded more than 100 schools in rural China. In 1986, Peter took over the leadership of Kum Shing, a business founded by his father in 1963. Under Peter's leadership, Kum Shing has grown to a multi-disciplinary company with 4,000 employees and annual revenues of approx. $210 million.

	2009 Graduate of the Last Decade Award Jeffrey Veale, BSc’97, MD'00 Jeffrey Veale is an assistant professor of surgery at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, a transplant surgeon in the Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and Director of the UCLA Donor Exchange Program. Jeffrey is recognized as a pioneer of paired kidney donation, credited with shortening waitlists and increasing positive outcomes in renal patient care.

	2009 Future Alumni Award Mark Blackwell, BComm student A third-year student at the Haskayne School of Business, Mark is project chair of the Alberta Solar Decathlon Project and founder and president of the Institute of Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy Students’ Association. Mark was named one of Canada's Top 20 Under 20 by Youth in Motion in 2008, and was one of just five Canadian youth selected to participate in the 2007 World Energy Congress in Rome.