Alumni with retired Trent professor Geoffrey Eathorne—her first professor at Trent— who now resides in Culross, Scotland.
Photo: Jesse Thomas, Peterborough This Week
LAURA BRIGHT ’97 is among a team from Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) that was recently named the first Canadian company and first government-funded organization in the world to win the prestigious international Project Management Office of the year award. With more than 700,000 members spread across nearly every country in the world, this is a significant accomplishment for Laura and Infoway’s project management team.
Former varsity athlete SARA RETTIE ’08 unveiled a new statue outside Trent Athletics on September 4, 2013. Named “The Excalibur,” it is a modern take on the sword in the stone, symbolizing the past, present, and future of Trent Athletics coming together as one. Rettie started the sculpture as a legacy project while studying at Trent, with the help of fellow business graduate COLE MARICOTTI ’08, in order to celebrate the growth of athletics on campus.
CHRISTOPHER GRAY ’85 is pleased to announce the publication of his new novel, Dark Nights. The novel is set in the present day and focuses on the future of citizen surveillance by the National Security Agency. The NSA funded the development of a revolutionary new supercomputer, but did not foresee the powerful new QC becoming self-aware, evolving into a true machine. As the computer grows more intelligent and powerful, its goals conflict with those of its human creators, eventually putting the world into the greatest peril it has ever faced.
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HON. JUSTICE AND GRAND CHIEF WABISKA MUKWA (ZANE A.A. BELL) ’74 has been recognized for his lifelong efforts and dedication to the welfare of all peoples Indigenous and Naturalized of the Lands known as Turtle Island, both as a Grand Chief and as an environmental biologist. Chief Mukwa graduated from Trent with his B.Sc. in Biology. On May 10, 2013, Trent alumna ALEXIA HANNIS ’91 (B.A. Hons, English Literature) successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis, “Joseph Conrad and The Aristotelian Turn,” at The European Graduate School in Switzerland under the direction of Christopher Fynsk. After defending her thesis, Alexia reunited
TIM ROLLWAGEN ’06, who teaches in Peterborough, continues to use his passion for storm chasing to educate his students. He also brought well-known storm chasers Mark Robinson and George Kouroupis to visit his students. Cataract City, the latest novel by CRAIG DAVIDSON ’94 was shortlisted for the Giller Prize in October 2013. The Giller Prize aims to highlight the best Canadian fiction writers with an annual prize of $50,000 for the best Canadian novel or short-story collection. One of his earlier works, Rust and Bone, was adapted into a film starring Marion Cotillard. MIKE RODIN ’10 was scouted by Strutt Central Models and signed with the Ford Modeling agency a year and a half ago. Since then he has worked for companies such as H&M and walked in the MasterCard Fashion week for companies such as Holt Renfrew. Rodin, 24, left for Shanghai in October 2013 for a threemonth modelling contract with ESEE Model Management.