Nipissing University is honouring three exceptional individuals at the annual Alumni Awards celebration: Jennifer Conley (nee Seguin), Chief Advancement Officer and President and CEO of the Carleton University Foundation, is receiving the Dr. James Jamieson Influential Alumni Award; Annie Sumi, singer-songwriter and ethereal-folk artist, receives the Rising Star Alumni Award; and Dr. Matti Saari, Professor of Psychology, will be named an Honorary Alumni.

Last week, Nipissing University welcomed the generous donors who provide funding for scholarships, bursaries and awards to campus for the annual Student and Donor Awards Social.

In recognition of his commitment to geographic education, Nipissing almnus Joe Grabowski (BEd’10), a science and math teacher in Guelph, has been selected as one of the 2016 Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellows.