THE following are expected to graduate from the University of the West of Scotland today.
Honorary Award
Doctor of the University
Professor Witold Nazarewicz
School of Computing
Doctor of Philosophy
Yang Wang
Master of Science with Distinction
Advanced Computer Systems Development
Richard Paterson Stuart's effort was first class By ANN FOTHERINGHAM
AROUND 170 students will graduate from the University of the West of Scotland's Paisley campus today.
In the first of two glittering ceremonies at the Coats Memorial Baptist Church in the town this week, proud families and friends will join in the celebrations.
Among today's high achievers is Stuart MacGowan, who graduates with a first-class honours BSc in chemistry. The 22-year-old, who lives in Cardonald, says he came into the course in a "round about kind of way".
Stuart said: "I left school at 16, with no Highers, and got a place on a Modern Apprenticeship programme with a chemical plant in Paisley. As part of the programme, I could go to what was then Paisley University, now the University of the West of Scotland, to study chemistry and chemical engineering, which was great.
"I started doing it part time, but after my first year, I realised it was going to take me about eight years to complete the degree - so I decided to study full time."
Stuart, who is hoping to start a PhD in Dublin after the summer, added: "It was hard at first but I enjoyed it, and I'm really pleased I'm coming out with a first class degree."
The university is also awarding an Honorary Doctorate, to world-renowned nuclear physicist Professor Witold Nazarewicz.
Professor Nazarewicz of the University of Tennessee is also scientific director of a major US experimental nuclear physics facility, the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
He was also recently appointed a visiting professor of the university. This post follows a three-month Carnegie Centenary Professorship which Professor Nazarewicz held at UWS last year which saw nuclear physics researchers from universities throughout the west of Scotland benefiting from his world- renowned expertise in this area.
Professor Seamus McDaid, principal and vice chancellor of University of the West of Scotland, said: "We are delighted to award Professor Nazarewicz, who is a scientist of the highest calibre, with an honorary doctorate.
"Professor Nazarewicz has made, and continues to make, a significant contribution to the development of nuclear science globally and has an international reputation for his many contributions in this area. He is viewed as one of the world's leading theoretical nuclear physicists."
Master of Science, Advanced Computer Systems Development
Tasleem Abbas
Akshay Bajpayee
Muhammad Kamran
Grzegorz Majewski
Praveen Kumar Rajain
Xiaochuan Wu
Guang Hui Yang
Master of Science with Distinction, Information Technology
Philip Bene
Oluwaseun Shoyelu
Maria Tamoutsidou
Master of Science, Information Technology Tamilselvi Sulur Arumugam
Dimitrios Matthes
Panayiotis Paraskevas
Adam Stanislaw Rozenek
Jarnail Singh
Charalampos Stasinos
Jan Vodicka
Master of Science, Multimedia Communications
Mark Keith Stewart
Master of Science with Distinction
Multimedia and Web Authoring Chunying Li
Filip Henryk Wojcieszyn
Postgraduate Diploma, Advanced Computer Systems Development
Ian Bradshaw
Jignesh Arunkumar Desai
Taral Kumar Khasiya
Postgraduate Diploma with Distinction, Information Technology
Khalida Javed
Blair McGeoch
Postgraduate Diploma, Information Technology
Stuart Dinnen
Gaswarh Abdalla Mohammed Imam Fredy Konig
Agnieszka Lewandowska
Themistoklis Vrailas
Postgraduate Diploma with Distinction, Multimedia Communications
Jamie Kirkhope
Postgraduate Diploma, Multimedia Communications
Natalie Fraser
Persefoni Sakellariou
Gareth Scammell
Bachelor of Arts with Honours, Business Information Technology and Management
Gordon Ian Anderson
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Computer Animation
Bilal Aksi
Ross Daniel Angus
Alexander Forbes Bannerman
James Bell
Craig William Creelman
Steven Gray
Kenneth Green
Lawrence Adam Greenan
Stuart Andrew Jenkins
Michael Kerr
Paul Joseph Leavy
Iain Stewart MacLean
Jamie Maclean
James William McCue
Martin McHugh
Emmalouise Monteith-Ross
Scott Douglas Purdie
Kirsten Stevenson
Iain Thomas Stewart
Timur Tugalev
Alana Weir
Hayley White
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Computer Games Technology
David Attaie
Marc Crichton
Richard Dalziel
James Dobson
Graeme Richard Foote
Stewart Hart
Blair Dallas Hogg
Marc Mitchell
John Roxburgh
David Shindler
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Computer Networking
Kester Ralph Ormiston Gray
Tony Malek
Fraser James Turpie
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Computing Science
Paul Hughes
William James Paul Hadden
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Information Systems
Kirstin Swan
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Information Technology
Abdulla Alshehhi
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Multimedia Technology
Stella Adetuberu
Stephen Thomas McCann
Stewart McLachlan
Usmaan Shahid
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Web Development
Keith Bowditch
Steven Richardson
David Taha
Lance Rael Taylor
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Animation and Digital Art
Anthony Brady
Lauren English
Daniel Friel
Bachelor of Science, Business Information Technology and eBusiness
Melinda Barthos
Bachelor of Science, Computer Animation
Graham James Dungavel
Kirstie Louise Logan
Simon McCann
Bachelor of Science, Computer Animation and Multimedia
Paul Peter Ewing
Bachelor of Science, Computer Games Technology
Marc Allison
Steven Hagan
Kevin Colin Winfield-Pantoja
Bachelor of Science with Distinction, Computer Networking
Martin Stuart Cannon
Fatima Conde Guerra
Pablo Carlos Mathamel Lopez
Bachelor of Science, Computer Networking
James Cruickshank
Steven Griffiths
Zwelithini Mncedisi Mdluli
Kevin Pang
Bachelor of Science with Distinction
Information Technology
Luis Jesus Manso Fernandez Arguelles
Bachelor of Science with Distinction
Internet Technologies
Lewis Robert Black
Bachelor of Science, Internet Technologies
Peter Soave
Bachelor of Science with Distinction
Multimedia Technology
Christian Goetze
Bachelor of Science
Multimedia Technology
Matthew Innes
Geoffrey Daniel Muir O'Donnell
School of Engineering and Science
Doctor of Philosophy
Paul Koon Ping Choi
Iain Donald Hossack
Kathryn Ann McIntosh
David O'Donnell
Master of Science, Research
Kathrin Silvi Streibel
Master of Science with Distinction, Computer Aided Engineering
Alexander Michel
Master of Science with Distinction,
Quality Management
Niki Bliona
Naeem Muhammad Hafeez
Panagiotis Kakleas
Dimitra Karavella
Master of Science, Quality Management Nikolaos Gkionis
Georgios Karkalas
Dimitra Koufou
Xiao Fei Liang
Vasiliki Liatsou
Maria Papadopoulou
Michael Petouris
Krzysztof Pieklo
Alexandros Portellos
Andreas Souliotis
Anastasios Tzaferis
Dimitra Tzavara
Antigoni Zikou
Master of Science with Distinction, Waste Management
Bonface Ombasa Manono
Master of Science, Waste Management
Robert Gichuiri Mwangi
Yao Xin Wei
Postgraduate Diploma, Waste Management Min Xi Chen
Bachelor of Engineering with Honours,
Chemical Engineering
Stuart Barbour
Xavier Pascual Caro
Aleix Martorell Cebrian
Ignacio Trabadela Robles
Evangelos Vouvalidis
Bachelor of Engineering with Honours,
Civil Engineering
Hinna Ali
Stephen Attridge
Frederic Auguste Charles Brozzetti-Degioanni
Grant Anderson Cook
Satyam Paramanyu Fowdar
Alasdair Jackson
Alistair David Macaulay
Graham McArthur
David Alexander McCracken
Iain Alexander McFarlane
Thomas Neil McLaren
Andrew John McVey
Nicholas Morgan
Julien Niepceron
Christopher James Penman
Joseph Quinn
Steven John Riddell
Andrew Neil Small
Gary Stafford
Bachelor of Engineering with Honours,
Design
Stuart Robert Chisholm
Bachelor of Engineering with Honours,
Mechanical Engineering
Graham Anthony Donnelly
Bachelor of Arts with Honours, Sport Development
Scott Arundel
David Cumming
Steven James McLean
David Thomas Mitchell
Sharon Readie
Christopher Joseph Sefton
Stephen Weir
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Applied Biomedical Science
Paul Francis Dunlop
Carrie Ann Scheib
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Applied Bioscience
Shonagh Louise Cameron
Michelle Campbell
Nicola Clark
Lynsey Jeffrey
Aida Maria Lopez Guerrero
Olga Mielczarek
Elena Poulos
Rachael Smith
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Applied Bioscience and Zoology
Christopher James Jones
Susan Manson
Andrew Iain Wilson
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Biology
Tahaira Bano Hashmi
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Biomedical Science
Lindsey Earl
Alison Faddes
Pamela Anne McDonagh
Tracey Lynn Thomson
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Chemistry
Stuart Alexander MacGowan
Wasi Mohammed
Gurhazara Singh
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Computer Aided Design
Sarah Anne Burkhalter
Martin Alan Jameson
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Environmental Biology
Lyndsay Cameron
Gemma Cunningham
Julie Anne Jamieson
Tracey Anne Macdonald
Bruce Alistair Milne
Allan Robert James Russell
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Forensic Science
Clare McGregor Buchanan
David Graham Cameron
Christine Elizabeth Clarke
Stacey Catherine Dunn
Laura Michelle Grant
Victoria Gunn
Nicola Macdonald
Lynne Margaret McGhee
David McLaughlin
Avril Muir
Jane Gault Pass Murphy
Kimberley Murray
Hollie Frances Rae
Lauren Sweeney
Emma Turley
Nicole Kirsten Whitelaw
Pamela Elizabeth Wilson
Bachelor of Science with Honours,
Health Science
Rabia Ghafoor
Shabeena Hassan
Nafeesa Mahmood
Bachelor of Science with Honours,
Mathematical Sciences
Elizabeth Ferguson
Stewart Douglas David Lowe
Sharday Sam Murray
Matthew Kenneth Neeves
Alice Louise O'Hara
Pamela Georgina Gilliland Reilly
Paul Wilson
Bachelor of Science with Honours,
Medicinal Chemistry
Iga Malgorzata Mazur
Bachelor of Science with Honours,
Pharmaceutical Science
Jacqueleen Lauchlan
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Physics Ghania Al-Hattali
Stephanie Brien
Alan Paul McEwan
David Andrew Thomson
Bachelor of Science with Honours,
Psychology
Emma Jayne McLean
Leanne McMaster
Susan Rebecca Mitchell
Caryn Smith
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Science Natalie Louise Cunnah
Bachelor of Engineering with Distinction
Mechanical Engineering
Jean-Baptiste Galiez
Sebastian Haupt
Kerstin Heyder
Bachelor of Engineering, Product Design and Development
Aki Olavi Pohjanen
Bihag Manojkumar Trivedi
Bachelor of Arts, Outdoor Recreation Studies Lee Ann Shannon
John Neil Vinson
Bachelor of Arts, Sports Development
Clara Brown
Gavin Brian Campbell
James Canning
Rhona Louise Higgins
Scott Calder McPhilemy
Bachelor of Science, Biology
Jihane Gara Hellal
Sara Lockhart
Mitchell McKenzie
Bachelor of Science, Biology and Zoology Simon Knott
Bachelor of Science with Distinction
Chemistry
Bedraya Mandekar
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry
Christopher James Crawford
John Patrick Dougan
Bachelor of Science with Distinction,
Civil Engineering
Christoph Senf
Bachelor of Science with Distinction,
Forensic Science
Christopher Reid
Bachelor of Science
Forensic Science
Julie Ann Crossett
Bachelor of Science with Distinction,
Mechanical Engineering
Rene Haertel
Bachelor of Science, Occupational Safety and Health
Joan Rogers
Bachelor of Science
Physics
Xavier Robles
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