University of Aberdeen

28 November 2008

MORNING CEREMONY (11am)

HONORARY DEGREE

DOCTOR OF LAWS

Susan Rice CBE, FRSE, BA, MLitt, DLitt, DHC, DBA, Chairman and Chief Executive, Lloyds TSB Scotland plc.

ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES

HIGHER DEGREES

DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Mashaallah Nezhad Economics.

MASTER OF RESEARCH

BY RESEARCH

Accountancy And Finance – Akrum Nasr Ekara Helfaya*.

Business Research – Moira Nikodem LLB*.

TAUGHT PROGRAMMES

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Meena Achar Alevoor BEng(India) with Commendation; Pius Maduabuchi Ayogu BSc(Nigeria), MSc(Nigeria); Nabilat Tolulope Bakare BSc(Australia); Friedrich Daniel Frick; Himank Gupta; Sherin Hassan; Moses Hussaini Ikani MEng(Nigeria)†; Stanley Emeka Odoh BPhil(Italy); Dipesh Gordhan Patel; Abdul Rehman BA(Canada); Vasu Dev Sankar Dev; Megha Sharma BIT(India); Vinod Sadashiv Sherigar; Amit Singh BCom(India); Vamshi Krishna Reddy Sunki BEng(India); Hideo Yamane BA(Japan); Sofyan M. Yousuf BSc(United Arab Emirates)†.

Business And Property – Alla Koblyakova.

Human Resource Management – Adesola Shakirat Ariyibi BSc(Nigeria); Divya Kanvathirtha BE(India); Oluwadamilola Onalaja-Aliu BSc(Nigeria); Melissa Martinez Page†; Vishnu Rajkumar BEng(India).

International Health Care Management – Pardeep Badwar; Misheck Edgar Chibwe MBChB(Zimbabwe); Gursharan Dheer; Rajesh Kumar†; Edna Chrishanthy Moses†; Anantha Shanmugam Nadarajan MPH(Ireland).

Marketing – Nakul Mukesh Bansal; Pranshu Kaistha; Sagar Sadanand Shetty; Narendra Sodha.

MASTER OF SCIENCE (ECONOMICS)

Accounting And Finance – Mohd Shahrul Nizam Zidin.

Corporate Finance – Akshay Subhash Dixit BEng(India), MBA(India); Oluwaseun Mary Ishie BSc(Nigeria).

Finance And Investment Management – Maximus Kwame Acheampong Adu-Safo*; Akinyemi Richard Akindele BSc(Nigeria)†; Segun Akinwande BSc(Nigeria); Linchen Cui; Chenchen Du BSc(Nap); Hao Du; Siddharth Singh Durgavanshi; Benedict Chidi Ebisike BSc(Nigeria)†; Charles Ndubuisi Ekowa; Nicola Evtimov; Ya Juan Fan†; Shuqi Gui BA(SBank); Yu Wei Guo; Martin Alexander Horne†; Kristina Ronke Lawal BSc(Nigeria)†; He Li; Peipei Liu BA(China)†; Jacinta Chinasa Obegolu; Kamildeen Oreitan Olopade; Stephen Temitayo Onafowokan DVM(Nigeria); Ugonwa Uzoamaka Oragwu; Ibitayo Bosede Oseghale; Oladipo Olufunbi Runsewe BSc(Nigeria)†; Thanapol Sangsawaddi BBA(Thailand); Richard Sutherland LLB†; Asif Syed Ul MCom(Pakistan); Jinghua Tan; Wen Wen BA(SBank); Kejia Wu BA(China); Liu Yang MA; Mei Yang BA(China); Tingting Yu.

International Real Estate Markets – David Patrick Canavan BSc(WEng); Stephen John Clarke; Eseosa John Ekhaguere; Bo Li BA(China); Yuan Da Qu.

Management, Innovation And Change – Loretta Safoa Boadu BA(Ghana); Yikun Liu; Ojone Isaac Ogala ;De Wu BBA(China).

Property – Jamie Kenneth Horton*; Andrew James Ian Lawson BA(United Arab Emirates); Richard McLarnon BA(Dund)†; Ross Alasdair Maclean BSc(RGU); Richard John Summers MA; Eilidh Kerr Walker LLB†.

MASTER OF SCIENCE

Accounting And Finance – Qin Yue Xue BAcc(Paisley).

Management, Economics And International Relations – Jennifer Gair Marion Gordon BA(Ireland); Oluwatoyin Ogundipe; Sheela Adoma Sakyi BA(Ghana)†; Elisabeth Dorothea Freiin Von Reitzenstein BA(Netherlands)*.

Real Estate Finance – Sutatit Chantarasa-Ard BBA(Thailand).

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

MASTER OF ARTS

DESIGNATED DEGREES

Economics – Rong Yang.

Finance – Melanie Brown.

Management Studies – Ling Jin; Bin Liu; Alistair Ward.

HONOURS DEGREES

Accountancy – Marc George Byers.

Accountancy-Economics – Dan Han.

Economics-Management Studies – Kevin William Bell.

Management Studies – Amber Katie Macleod; Dong Jie Ivan Zhan.

AFTERNOON CEREMONY (3pm)

HONORARY DEGREE

DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

Sir Roy Anderson FRS, FMedSci, Rector, Imperial College London.

ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

MASTER OF ARTS

DESIGNATED DEGREES

Psychology – Natalie M Cheyne; Leanne Hermiston; Jan Mair; Nicola Marshall; Cameron Masson; Aimee Ritchie.

HONOURS DEGREES

Psychology – Sara Madeley Geraldes Barba; Fiona Louise Reid; Kelly Louise Rennie.

DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS IN RURAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Leisure – Rachael Margaret Horn.

SCIENCE

HIGHER DEGREES

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Eureka Emefa Adomako BSc(Ghana), MPhil (Cantab) Plant & Soil Science; Victoria Louise Anderson BSc Medical Microbiology; Kerry Macdonald Cameron BSc(Dund) Zoology; Claire Anne Conway BSc, MRes Psychology; Thomas Goetz Biomedical Sciences; Andrew Robert Kenyon Molecular & Cell Biology; Romana Ku?erov Biomedical Sciences; Kristin Lees BSc(Edin), MSc(Liv) Zoology; Christopher James Miller MSc Plant & Soil Science; Carin Schrder MSc(Netherlands) Psychology; Rituka Indira Sharma BSc(Dund), MRes(S'clyde) Biomedical Physics; Biomedical Engineering; Lisa Louise Margaret Welling BA(Canada) Psychology; David Russell Woolley Biomedical Sciences.

MASTER OF RESEARCH

BY RESEARCH

Ecology And Environmental Sustainability – Helen Brenda Anderson*; Ren Bai; Paul Samuel Stagg BSc(Stir).

Psychology – Susan Foster BSc(OU).

MASTER OF SCIENCE

TAUGHT PROGRAMMES

Bio-Medical Engineering – Arafat Wakulira Aligawesa MEng(Lond)†; Ahmed Mohamed Hafez Ibrahim MBChB(Egypt)†; Mansura Jaigirdar BSc(Herts)†.

Ecology – Elisabeth Dobias BSc(Plym)†.

Environmental Science – Oyinade Omolola Adegbite BSc(Nigeria)†; Yagya Raj Adhikari MSc(Nepal); Oghenekevwe Kimberly Avwobobe BSc(Nigeria)†; Sarah Michelle Butcher BSc†; Aqilah Haji Junaidi BSc(Brunei)†; Robert Ian Hobkirk BSc†; Ali Hussain BSc(Pakistan), MSc(Pakistan), MBA(IUA); Joe Junior Ibeh BTech(Nigeria); Michael Chukwuemeka Igweike BSc(Nigeria), MBA(Nigeria); Chibuzo Lilian Ikediugwu BSc(Nigeria); Rhona Macdonald BSc, BSc(RGU)†; Nkechinyerem Rosemary Nwarache BSc(Nigeria); Ijeoma Okwunakwe BSc(Nigeria); Shawn Webster BSc†; Kun Xu BSc(China).

Forestry – Julian David Barnes BSc(Staffs)†.

Marine And Fisheries Science – Samantha Clare Penrice BSc.

Medical Molecular Genetics – Borys Alberto Cornejo Moreno MSc(Mexico), MD(El Salvador)†; Sujan Deb MBBS(India); Michail Kalogeropoulos BSc(OxBrookes)†; Dimitrios Liapis BSc(Greece)†; Gioia Petrighi Polidori Laurea Magistrale(Italy)*.

Soil Science – Nishchal Karki†; Amit Kiran Neupane BSc(Nepal)†.

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE

DESIGNATED DEGREES

Medical Microbiology – Kimberley Evelyn Sim.

Psychology – Abigail Dawn Clifton; Mikel David Utsi.

Sports Studies (Sport And Society) – Yvonne Alexander; Jamie Heads.

HONOURS DEGREES

Biology – Steven Mackenzie.

Conservation Biology – Olivia Dullaghan.

Genetics (Immunology) With Industrial Placement – Benjamin Wen Qing Hing.

Marine Biology – Judy Nicole Merchant.

Sports And Exercise Science – Kyle Hay A S Greig.

Sports Studies (Sport And Society) – John Johnstone.

Zoology – John O'Donel-Watts.

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES (DESIGNATED DEGREE)

Shiraz Chaudhry.

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN FORESTRY

HONOURS DEGREE

Nicholas Peter Gough.

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN HEALTH SCIENCES

HONOURS DEGREE

Health And Nutrition – Alison Naomi Blackburn with First Class Honours.

MEDICINE

HIGHER DEGREES

DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

Janet Liversidge BSc, PhD.

DOCTOR OF MEDICINE

Craig Andrew Heath BSc(Glas), MBChB; David James McGill BScMedSci, MBChB; Sam Philip MBBS(India), MD(India); Alison Mary Ross BScMedSci, MBChB; Justin Hereward Gwilym Williams MBBS(N'cle), MSc(Glas).

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Poornima Anandh Kumar MSc Mental Health; Laura Marie Chalmers BScBMS Ophthalmology; Yvette Petra Christopher BSc(Trinidad & Tobago), MSc(Netherlands) Environmental & Occupational Medicine; Fiona Stewart Comrie BScHealthSci Public Health; Seonaidh Claire Cotton BSc, MLitt Medicine & Therapeutics; Jillian Stephen BSc(Glas) Medicine & Therapeutics; Michela Tinelli MSc, MSc(Italy) General Practice & Primary Care, Public Health.

MASTER OF SCIENCE

BY RESEARCH

Medical Sciences – Janet Stewart Guthrie Medical Microbiology.

Occupational Hygiene – Taiwo Olaolu Talabi Environmental & Occupational Medicine.

TAUGHT PROGRAMMES

Clinical Pharmacology – Edward Bobie Amankwatia BScBMS(Lond)†; Anuradha Arunachalam MSc(India); Patrick Batty BSc(Dunelm)†; Benjamin Joe Eduful BSc(Ghana); Fionnuala Gallagher; Srinivasa Raju Kalidindi BPharm(India); Ratchadawadee Lapjitkusol†; Nikolaos Louvis MPharm(Brig'n); Jinesh Maganbhai Parmar.

Health Services And Public Health Research (Epidemiology) – Abimbola Omolara Barango BPharm(Nigeria); Ravi Kiran Kafle MBBS(Nepal); Pawana Sharma BPharm(Pakistan).

Health Services And Public Health Research (Health Services Research) – Igho Jovwoke Onakpoya MBBS(Nigeria).

Health Services And Public Health Research (Public Health) – Emeka Aguiyiaguiyi MBBS(Nigeria); Ganesh Bahadur Ghale; Titilola Oluwatoyin Ololade Lekan-Afariogun BPharm(Nigeria); Ogba Ulu Onwuchekwa; Bijay Sigdel EMBA(Nepal); Amrit Prasad Upadhyaya.

Human Nutrition And Metabolism – Nicola Abdessadek BScBMS; Victoria Victorovna Davis MBChB(Azerbaijan)†; Andrea Evelyn Gilmartin BSc; Yee Siew Kew MSc(Australia)†; Quratulain Mansur MBBS(Pakistan)†; Waiyee Wong BSc(Malaysia).

International Health And Management – Rajan Prasad Bhatta; Ganesh Prasad Chapagai; Raghava Chowdary Nandigam MPT(India); Ifeyinwa Ugochi Jane-Frances Okete MBBS(Nigeria); Toya Nath Sapkota MA(Nepal); Lava Sudan Simkhada BA(Nepal); Prakash Simkhada BSc(Nepal).

Medical Biotechnology (With Bio-business) – Thanafez Khaleel†; Aysha Binty Khalid*; Devika Mohandas; Bhindu Revi BSc(United Arab Emirates)†; Balaji Sundarrajan BTech(India); Erying Zhao.

Medical Molecular Microbiology – Nnamdi Chukwuma-Ezike BSc(Nigeria); Lovina Ibeh; Nicole Latoya Scott†; Emma Louise Spragg BSc(WEng).

Molecular And Cellular Immunology – Adetope Olufemi Adegbayibi; Rhoanne Catherine Knox BSc(Edin)*; David Francis Gerald Malone BSc(StAnd)†; Parthasarathi Ray MSc(India)†.

Molecular Exercise Physiology – Robert Neil Judson BSc(Birm)*.

Nursing – Hayden Arzani Birgani; Matthew Donn BA(RGU)†; Di Fu BSN(China); Clare Elizabeth Harris*; Yanan Hu BSN(China); Diana Kathambi Mutwiri*; Jane Daun Ross BA(RGU)*.

Occupational Medicine – James Obekpa Agada†; Timothy Snowdon Greenish MBBS(Mid'x); Emeka Ofulue MBBS(Nigeria); Lesley Ann Whybourn BSc(Manc), MBChB(Manc)*.

EVENING CEREMONY (6.30pm)

HONORARY DEGREE

DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

William J L Buyers FRSC, FlnstPhys, Guest Scientist and Principal Research Officer (Retired) for the National Research Council at Chalk River Laboratories, Ontario, Canada and Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto.

ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

MASTER OF ARTS

DESIGNATED DEGREES

Geography – James Mathew Charles Roberts.

SCIENCE

HIGHER DEGREES

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Steven David Andrews BSc Geology & Petroleum Geology; Xiantang Sun Computing Science.

MASTER OF SCIENCE

TAUGHT PROGRAMMES

Applied Geospatial Technology – Ashutosh Harishchandra Alone BE(India); Dominic Ian Bull BSc(Plym)†.

Electronic Commerce Technology – Ifeoma Theresa Adaji BSc(Nigeria)*; Xi Chen BSc(Ireland); Nan Cheng BSc; James William Macleod BSc(Glas)†; Asaduzzaman Mohammad BSc(India); Kaine Obinna Uzoukwu BSc(Nigeria).

Geospatial Information Systems – Sophia Rwanga BSc(Tanzania).

Information Technology – Anthony Utsu Anju BSc(Nigeria)*; Chidimma Anita Ekpeh BSc(Nigeria); Lukasz Czeslaw Grzelec BSc(Ireland)*; Gautam Kumar BA(Australia)†; Mitedjere Enameguono Okumagba BSc(Nigeria).

Integrated Petroleum Geosciences – Peter Michael Ablard BSc(Edin)*; Kenneth Obinna Anyanwu BSc(Nigeria); Duncan Harry Stewart Chedburn BSc(Edin)*; Christopher David Cruickshank BSc*; Dawn Elizabeth Houliston MSci(Lond)*; Jenna Elizabeth Humphrey BSc(Edin); Nick Lagrillire BSc(Belgium)*; Wojciech Mausch MSc(Poland); Honore Mbouombouo Dairou; Lauren Neil BSc(Edin)*; Chigozie Abraham Okafor; Kenneth Ian Robertson BSc*; Christophe Seri BSc(Canada)*.

Oil And Gas Enterprise Management – Oladeji Olugbenga Ade-Aina BEng(Nigeria); Ewan Peter Carmichael MA*; Ele Salifu Idakwo BTech(Nigeria)†; Marsel Kamalov; Dilip Kumar Venugopalan Nair BTech(India); Solange Fernandes Costa Nunes; Prashant Mukesh Rupani BSc(Plym)†; Gaspar Filipe Sermao.

Sustainable Rural Development – Lyndsay Khlene Sharp BSc.

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE

DESIGNATED DEGREE

Mathematics – David Frank Webster.

EDUCATION

HIGHER DEGREES

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Panagiotis Vlachopoulos MEd(Manc), Ptychion(Greece) Education.

MASTER OF EDUCATION

TAUGHT PROGRAMMES

Advanced Educational Studies – Najmeh Mobasheri BA(Iran).

Advanced Professional Studies – Joan Elliott MA; Choon Peng Ng Hay BA(Malaysia), MEd(OU); Moira McColm Peck BA(Glas).

MASTER OF MUSIC

Musical Composition – Ross Whyte BMus†.

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

BACHELOR OF EDUCATION

HONOURS DEGREE

Primary – Lee-Anne Cameron.

BACHELOR OF MUSIC

DESIGNATED DEGREE

Yvonne McCutcheon

HONOURS DEGREE

Kirsty Bethan Clark; Jennifer Hamilton; Myra Alison Jerrit.

BACHELOR OF ARTS

Professional Development (Adult Literacies) – Julie Angela Aitken BA(Lond); Tina Maria Beales; Alan Deans; Geraldine Beatrice Green; Lorraine Smith.

ENGINEERING

HIGHER DEGREES

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Jinde Hao Engineering; James Ing BSc(Birm), MSc(Lond) Engineering; Ravindran Manoharan BEng Engineering.

MASTER OF SCIENCE

TAUGHT PROGRAMMES

Energy Futures (Oil And Gas) – Onyekwelu Ifeanyi Abone BEng(Nigeria); Marianne Chinyere Igolo Agwada BEng(Nigeria)†; Olawale Oluwaseun Aluko†; Chukwudi Amah†; Nduaguba Cyriacus Chimah BEng(Nigeria); Idegbe Isusu Ebereonwu BEng(Nigeria); Michael Eigbe BEng(SBank)†; Leesi Elsie Gbarabe BTech(Nigeria); Mohammed Baba Gujbawu BEng(Nigeria)†; Olumide Temitope Laleye BSc(Nigeria); Ninilola Adepehin Martins BSc(Nigeria)†; Ignatius Chuka Moneke BSc(Nigeria), MSc(Nigeria); Julio Cesar Monsalve Molina BEng(Venezuela); Christian Ugochukwu Odileke BEng(Nigeria)†; Ismaila Olabode Oke BEng(Nigeria); Olasunkanmi Stephen Olayiwola BEng(Wales); Chukwuma Ndubisi Onubogu BEng(Nigeria); Azu-Asonye Onwudebe BEng(Nigeria)*; Nnaemeka Francis Onwuka BSc(Nigeria); Samuel Ugochukwu Opara BSc(Ghana); Ogbonna Emmanuel Osi BSc(Nigeria).

Energy Futures (Renewables) – Chabala Lloyd Ngo BEng(Zambia)*; Rajinder Sokhi BEng(Liv)*; Johanna Helen Yates MChem*.

Project Management – Stephen Reginald Davies BSc(Sus); John Richard Dexter*; Craig Duncan*; Peter Eadie*; David Alexander Finlay BEng(RGU); Paul Alfred Hodgson†; Kenneth Harry Kelly; Derrick James Laszlo BSc(Edin), MSc(S'clyde)*; Neil Stuart Macdonald*; Laurie Forbes Mackay; Donald John Stevenson†; Douglas Walker BSc(RGU)†.

Safety Engineering And Risk Management – Olasumbo Olajumoke Aina BSc(Nigeria)†; Stuart Ford ; Rui Han BEng(China)*; Murray Alastair Henderson†; Moses Jah-Ke Maledo BEng; Nwora Menakaya BSc(Nigeria); Nnaemeka Nathan Okoh BEng(Nigeria); Gavin Rodgers BEng(RGU); Yanli Shi MA(China); Li Tang; Kasi Usani BEng(Nigeria)†.

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

MASTER OF ENGINEERING

Electrical And Electronic Engineering With Control – Ahmad Asraf Abdul Aziz.

Electronic Engineering With Communications – Daniel Stewart Rae.

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING

HONOURS DEGREES

Engineering (Civil) – David Cleary; Brendan John Culhane; David Lovie; Patrick Joseph O Neill; Gavin Rorison; Colm Walsh BEng(Ireland).

Engineering (Civil And Environmental) – James Corry; Brian Quinn.

Engineering (Civil And Structural) – James Alexander Taylor.

Engineering (Civil With Management) – Craig Thomson.

Engineering (Mechanical) – Stavlon Carvalho; Annand Philip Dean; Crawford Hugh Inglis; John Paul O'Rourke; Iniovosa Steve Oseruvwoja; Oyeniyi Oyetunji.

Engineering (Mechanical And Electrical) – Adrian Caruana.

Engineering (Mechanical With Computer Aided Engineering) – Bruce Taylor.

Engineering (Mechanical With Control) – Joao Antonio Sassa Gonga.

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING

Engineering (Electrical) – Kamal Okhumeode Musah.

Engineering (Electronic) – Iain Alexander Boyd; Cameron Ross Gibbon; Suganthakumar Jeyabalasundaram.

Engineering (Mechanical) – Yousef M S Y Alabduljader; Abdulwhab A A Buqamazz; Julie Dawn Taylor.

* with Distinction † with Commendation