{"id":17628,"date":"2025-06-18T16:06:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T20:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=17628"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:39","slug":"greenhouse-manager-ed-bruggink-honoured-with-founders-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2025\/greenhouse-manager-ed-bruggink-honoured-with-founders-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenhouse Manager Ed Bruggink Honoured with Founders\u2019 Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Greenhouse Manager Ed Bruggink Honoured with Founders\u2019 Award\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>After more than four decades nurturing plants and community spirit at 杏吧原创 University, <strong data-start=\"229\" data-end=\"244\">Ed Bruggink<\/strong>, Greenhouse Manager since 1981, has been awarded the <strong data-start=\"298\" data-end=\"322\">2025 Founders\u2019 Award<\/strong> &#8211; the institution\u2019s highest non-academic honour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/IMG-20250618-WA0008.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/IMG-20250618-WA0008.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/IMG-20250618-WA0008-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/IMG-20250618-WA0008-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/IMG-20250618-WA0008-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/IMG-20250618-WA0008-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/IMG-20250618-WA0008-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/IMG-20250618-WA0008-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/IMG-20250618-WA0008-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/IMG-20250618-WA0008-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem] transition-colors duration-100 ease-in-out\">Ed has been the driving force behind 杏吧原创\u2019s beloved <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/annual-butterfly-show\/\">Butterfly Show<\/a> since 1999, has transformed the university\u2019s greenhouses into spaces of learning, wonder, and environmental outreach. This award celebrates his dedication, passion, and kindness to students and visitors alike.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about this heartfelt recognition at the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/boardofgovernors\/founders-award\/2025-founders-award-recipient\/\">Board of Governors Founders\u2019 Award<\/a> page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After more than four decades nurturing plants and community spirit at 杏吧原创 University, Ed Bruggink, Greenhouse Manager since 1981, has been awarded the 2025 Founders\u2019 Award &#8211; the institution\u2019s highest non-academic honour. Ed has been the driving force behind 杏吧原创\u2019s beloved Butterfly Show since 1999, has transformed the university\u2019s greenhouses into spaces of learning, wonder, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17628"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17637,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17628\/revisions\/17637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}