Item A-7956 - Honourary Degrees - Presentation - Dr. Peter Larkin

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Honourary Degrees - Presentation - Dr. Peter Larkin

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  • 25 May 1989 (Creation)

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1 photograph : col. ; 12.5 x 9.0 cm

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Dr. Sylvia Fedoruk, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Dr. Peter Larkin at Convocation held in Centennial Auditorium. Iain MacLean, University Secretary, prepares to hood the recipient.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Peter Anthony Larkin was born on 11 Dec 1924 in Auckland, New Zealand. He was educated at the University of Saskatchewan and at Oxford (where he was a Rhodes Scholar, earning his DPhil at the age of 24). Dr. Larkin moved to Canada as the Chief Fisheries Biologist of British Columbia, in a joint appointment between the provincial government and UBC. At UBC, he later served as the Head of the Department of Zoology (1972–1975), as the Dean of Graduate Studies (1975–1984), and as the Vice President Research (1986–1988). Dr. Larkin authored some 160 scientific papers. He was also an admired teacher who won UBC's Master Teacher Award in 1971. Outside UBC, he served as the Director of the Pacific Biological Station at Nanaimo (1963–1966). Dr. Larkin was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1965. He was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977, the Fry Medal of the Canadian Society of Zoologists in 1978, and the American Fisheries Society Award of Excellence in 1984. He also received the Order of Canada in 1995, and became a Member of the Order of British Columbia in June 1996. Dr. Larkin died on 10 July 1996.

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Photographer: AK Photos

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