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The Silver Medal Award for Academic Excellence

The Silver MedalThe Department of Anthropology annually awards its Silver Medal for Academic Excellence in Anthropology prize to a 3rd or 4th year anthropology student.  The award winner is chosen from among our most highly achieving students, taking into consideration the activities and contributions to departmental life made by the student.  The intention is to honour an excellent, all-round promising anthropologist.

Prior to 2011 , the recipient was chosen at the end of the winter term with the formal presentation of the medal taking place in the fall term. However, this event will now take place in the winter term, closer to the time of graduation, so that the recipient can celebrate with his or her fellow graduating class members. The students who have won this medal have focused on various subfields of Anthropology, including Physical Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, and Joint Majors, as well as being enrolled in both the regular and co-operative programs.

Winners of the Silver Medal

Click on the names below or follow this link to see photos of some of the Silver Medal Award winners in chronological order. To see more photos from some of the Silver Medal lectures and the dinners that follow, go to our Anthropology Department Photo Album page.