First Nations researcher honoured for work – Prince George Citizen
April 22, 2015
A local First Nations professor will be getting an early retirement gift after being recognized with a career achievement award for the impact of her research on the non-academic community.
“I felt utterly humbled,” said Antonia Mills, who has been teaching at the University of Northern B.C. for more than 20 years.
The Confederation of University Faculty Associations of British Columbia announced Mills won the Paz Buttedahl Career Achievement Award in March.
“My goal for my career has been to try to inform students and the public about the importance and the value of first nations perspectives of the need to look after the environmental integrity of everything and see the spiritual component in everything,” said Mills, adding there’s still work to do in that regard.
