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Hon. Dr. Sylvia O. Fedoruk, O.C., S.O.M., BA’49, MA’51, LLD’06

Encouraged by an English teacher, Sylvia Fedoruk pursued science at the University of Saskatchewan. After she graduated in 1951, she became the chief medical physicist for the Saskatchewan Cancer Foundation, a position that she held for 35 years. During this time, she was involved in the development of one of the first nuclear scanning machines and the Cobalt 60 unit, which pioneered the treatment of cancer using radiation. A U of S Chancellor and member of the Board of Governors, she received the Order of Canada in 1986 and became the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan in 1988.