{"id":176180,"date":"2023-06-12T14:39:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T18:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=176180"},"modified":"2023-06-12T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T18:41:00","slug":"ottawa-prodigy-sets-unprecedented-record-as-youngest-university-graduate-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/ottawa-prodigy-sets-unprecedented-record-as-youngest-university-graduate-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Prodigy Sets Unprecedented Record as Youngest University Graduate in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"antig-477671589\" class=\"antig-ecab antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  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sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p class=\"deck\" lang=\"en\"><strong>SOURCE: CBC &#8211;<\/strong> Anthaea-Grace Patricia Dennis, 12, will accept her biomedical science degree Saturday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"storyWrapper\">\n<figure class=\"imageMedia leadmedia-story full\">\n<div class=\"placeholder\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"story\">\n<p>Anthaea-Grace Patricia Dennis is not your typical 12-year-old.<\/p><div id=\"antig-3323040727\" class=\"antig-content_5 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ablpag\" aria-label=\"ABLP_Red-&#038;-Reddy_Web_1000x250\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 1000w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:75\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:192\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>She&#8217;s a child prodigy who&#8217;s about to become the youngest Canadian to ever graduate from university.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Patricia Dennis will walk across the University of Ottawa stage and accept a bachelor&#8217;s degree in biomedical science.<\/p><div id=\"antig-493947532\" class=\"antig-content_4 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:100\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:342\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1201\" height=\"401\"   \/><\/a><\/div><div id=\"antig-2778019772\" class=\"antig-content_12 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ablpag\" aria-label=\"ABLP_Red-&#038;-Reddy_Web_1000x250\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 1000w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:75\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:192\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>She started the program when she was nine, at a time when most of her peers were playing games at recess.<\/p><div id=\"antig-3560454876\" class=\"antig-content antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.antiguabarbudaculinarymonth.com\/\" aria-label=\"culinary\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:843\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:843\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:132\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:450\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:337\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1536\/h:675\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:842\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1124\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>So how is this wunderkind feeling about the big day?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to be proud. I&#8217;m going to hope I don&#8217;t fall off the stage,&#8221; Patricia Dennis said.<\/p><div id=\"antig-455258161\" class=\"antig-content_2 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.com\/antigua\/\" aria-label=\"500X500 (1)\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:500\/h:500\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/500X500-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:500\/h:500\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/500X500-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/500X500-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:150\/h:150\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/500X500-1.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to be happy for myself too, not just for other people. I am proud of myself for getting to this point, despite all the hurdles and blocks that there have been for a person like me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"player-placeholder-ui-container player-0d4bc2a7-f5f3-4ee1-b04c-06cb6059c3b1\">\n<div class=\"player-placeholder-video-ui\" title=\"This 12-year-old is about to receive a bachelor's degree\">\n<div class=\"player-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"player-placeholder-ui \">\n<div class=\"video-item video-card-overlay \" title=\"This 12-year-old is about to receive a bachelor's degree\">\n<div class=\"thumbnail-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"thumbnail-container\">\n<figure style=\"width: 1612px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/thumbnails.cbc.ca\/maven_legacy\/thumbnails\/953\/247\/image_(44).jpg?crop=1.777xh:h;*,*&amp;downsize=510px:*510w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1612\" height=\"905\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricia Dennis started the biomedical science program at the University of Ottawa when she was nine years old. (Photo: Rachelle Elsiufi\/CBC News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Mom\u00a0instrumental in her education<\/h2>\n<p>Perhaps no one will be more proud or excited than her biggest supporter, her mom Johanna Dennis.<\/p><div id=\"antig-1474321867\" class=\"antig-content_3 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.com\/antigua\/\" aria-label=\"1000436969\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:864\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000436969.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:864\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000436969.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:240\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000436969.jpg 240w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:819\/h:1024\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000436969.jpg 819w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:960\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000436969.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Dennis said she realized her daughter was special when she was around two-and-a-half years old. She has felt so ever since.<\/p><div id=\"antig-2315852670\" class=\"antig-content_6 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:100\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:342\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1201\" height=\"401\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The pair have a close bond.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis was a single mother while she built her own academic career. After obtaining several\u00a0degrees, she&#8217;s now a law professor.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia Dennis\u00a0said her mom\u00a0has been instrumental in her own education.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like part of why I&#8217;m going to the convocation and walking across the stage is for her own benefit to say, &#8216;Thank you for being there for me.&#8217;\u00a0I think that&#8217;s really the main purpose of the graduation in the first place,&#8221; Patricia Dennis said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s always there for me whenever I need her to be there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"imageMedia image full\">\n<div class=\"placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.6871760.1686341112!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.JPG_gen\/derivatives\/original_780\/ott-university-graduate-20230609.JPG\" alt=\"A girl sits at a table while being interviewed by another person.\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Being a preteen in an intensive university program has come with a unique set of challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia Dennis has dealt\u00a0with preconceived notions\u00a0and expectations\u00a0from others about how she is going to look, talk and act based on her age.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My advice for people who are also young, gifted, smart, talented \u2014\u00a0don&#8217;t let other people&#8217;s expectations bring you down,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s been a major obstacle for me everywhere I go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She also wants to inspire other intelligent and ambitious children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very motivated by the fact that I can be the first [to do] something. You know, being able to show other young, gifted and talented people that something like this is possible, that you can get through these roadblocks, has always been something that I&#8217;ve always wanted to do,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;Master of the cerebellum&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>The highlight of her university career so far was completing a 40-page thesis on the relationship between\u00a0handedness and\u00a0functional activity in the cerebellum \u2014\u00a0the part of the brain responsible for co-ordinating balance and movement.<\/p>\n<p>The paper concluded that connectivity between the brain and hand is significantly different for people who are right-handed versus those who are left-handed.<\/p>\n<p>After researching the topic for about\u00a0a year, Patricia Dennis presented her findings at the Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Biology Symposium.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can now call myself a researcher,&#8221; she said. &#8220;There are people showing interest in what I&#8217;m doing, and I feel like the master of the cerebellum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When she&#8217;s not researching or writing about the brain, Patricia Dennis is a &#8220;very good&#8221; violinist, her mom said.<\/p>\n<p>She also loves playing with her cats and binge-watching TV shows with her family.<\/p>\n<p>After a well-earned break from her studies over the summer, Patricia Dennis is pursuing postgraduate school.<\/p>\n<p>Her top three candidates are McGill University, the University of Toronto and the Illinois Institute of Technology, and she&#8217;s interested in continuing her research on functional activity in the cerebellum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll probably pick it back up when I have my own lab, and I can get people to also do it with me, because I&#8217;ll be in charge,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/LgZXQuHl9MhCtCAAZEbcrd\">CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"antig-990684684\" class=\"antig-paragraph-12\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/LgZXQuHl9MhCtCAAZEbcrd\">CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/LgZXQuHl9MhCtCAAZEbcrd\">CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_inline tdi_2 td_block_template_1\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"antig-990684684\" class=\"antig-paragraph-12\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/LgZXQuHl9MhCtCAAZEbcrd\">CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/LgZXQuHl9MhCtCAAZEbcrd\">CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_inline tdi_2 td_block_template_1\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"antig-990684684\" class=\"antig-paragraph-12\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/LgZXQuHl9MhCtCAAZEbcrd\">CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"antig-2118914505\" class=\"antig-in-comments_2 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/@hadeedmotorsltd\" aria-label=\"Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 1000w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:75\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:192\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOURCE: CBC &#8211; Anthaea-Grace Patricia Dennis, 12, will accept her biomedical science degree Saturday. Anthaea-Grace Patricia Dennis is not your typical 12-year-old. She&#8217;s a child prodigy who&#8217;s about to become the youngest Canadian to ever graduate from university. 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