The Prime Minister’s office announced 167 Vanier Scholarships to be awarded to graduate students in Canada. Of this year’s honourees, 25 are from UBC. Each scholar will receive $50,000 per year for three years to pursue and complete doctoral studies in social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and engineering, and health.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
- Rodrigo Goya—Bioinformatics
- Andree Gacoin—Educational Studies
- Celeste Bickford—Health Care & Epidemiology
- Devon Greyson—Interdisciplinary Studies
- Laura Lee—Interdisciplinary Studies
- Michael Copley—MD,PhD
- Long Nguyen—MD,PHD
- Clara Westwell-Roper—MD,PhD
- Larissa Pikor—Oncology
- Yuanyuan Jiang—Psychology
- Krista Best—Occupational Sciences and Occupational Therapy
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
- Ashley Sanders—Cell & Developmental Biology
- Toufiqul Islam—Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Iain Moyles—Mathematics
- Farzad Khademolhosseini—Mechanical Engineering
- Nurit Gazit Gurel—Neuroscience
- Simon Viel—Physics
- Christopher Kenneth Willie—Interdisciplinary Studies (UBC Okanagan)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
- Ma Ledda Docot—Anthropology
- Denise Green—Anthropology
- Chelsey Hauge—Cross Faculty Inquiry in Education
- Shayna Plaut—Educational Studies
- Julian Yates—Geography
- Jessica Rosinski—Political Science
- Natalie Miller—Psychology
The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (Vanier CGS) was created to attract and retain world-class doctoral students and to establish Canada as a global centre of excellence in research and higher learning. It is available to both Canadian and international PhD students studying at Canadian universities.
For more information, visit http://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/news/congratulations-ubcs-25-new-vanier-scholars.