Cancer victim given posthumous Mass Comm degree at USM convo

Dominic Rayappan receiving her late daughter Chelsea Cindion Dominic's scroll from Universiti Sains Malaysia vice-chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Faisal Rafiq Mahamd Adikan. Looking on from left are her aunt Matilda Alphans, mother Mary Laga and sister Elisha.

GEORGE TOWN: Cancer patient Chelsea Cindion Dominic has been awarded a posthumous degree at Universiti Sains Malaysia's 59th convocation here following her passing in 2020.

Her father Dominic Rayappan, 56, who received the scroll for his late daughter's Mass Communications degree on Monday (May 30), said this was a form of closure for the family as she had worked hard on the course.