{"id":283,"date":"2020-06-09T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/?page_id=283"},"modified":"2020-10-15T17:51:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T17:51:41","slug":"past-alumni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/past-alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Dr. Jim McEwen<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Accolades<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0A biomedical engineer and the inventor of the microprocessor-controlled automatic tourniquet system, which is now standard for 15,000-20,000 procedures daily in operating rooms worldwide<\/li>\n<li>Adjunct professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering, in the Department of Orthopaedics and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia<\/li>\n<li>Member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame<\/li>\n<li>Officer of the Order of Canada<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><em><strong>Megan N.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Accolades<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. McEwen Innovation Award<\/li>\n<li>the top student in English and Chemistry<\/li>\n<li>New Faces Leader award<\/li>\n<li>Gold medal (Greater Vancouver Science Fair<\/li>\n<li>Bronze medal at the Canada Wide Science Fair<\/li>\n<li>UBC Entrance Scholarship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><em><strong>Lasya V.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Accolades<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Schulich Leader Scholarship<\/li>\n<li>Sauder School of Business Master of Management entrance scholarship<\/li>\n<li>Gordon Shrum Scholarship<\/li>\n<li>NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><em><strong>Austin W.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Accolades<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>The best project at the Canada Wide Science Fair<\/li>\n<li>Grand prize at the International Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge<\/li>\n<li>Gold medal at the Taiwan International Science Fair<\/li>\n<li>Gordon E. Moore Award for Best in Fair at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (IISEF)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jim McEwen Accolades \u00a0A biomedical engineer and the inventor of the microprocessor-controlled automatic tourniquet system, which is now standard for 15,000-20,000 procedures daily in operating rooms worldwide Adjunct professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering, in the Department of Orthopaedics and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/past-alumni\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Past Alumni&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-283","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}