> SFU student wins first Paul Tai Yip Ng award
SFU student wins first Paul Tai Yip Ng award
Contact:
Susan Jamieson-McLarnon, 604.291.5151, jamieson@sfu.ca
Related web site:
http://www.cic.sfu.ca/
Susan Jamieson-McLarnon, 604.291.5151, jamieson@sfu.ca
Related web site:
http://www.cic.sfu.ca/
April 16, 2007
Peter Eng, a long-time benefactor of Simon Fraser University, was on hand to present the first Paul Tai Yip Ng memorial award to Paul Yeung, a doctoral student in the Faculty of Education.
The award is from an endowment Dr. Eng established within SFU's David Lam Centre for International Communication in honour of his late father, Paul Tai Yip Ng. "My father, who attended university in Beijing and France, was very interested in education and admired the centre's work on international communication," he says. "In commemorating his life, we are very pleased to be able to provide encouragement to young scholars and their research in this important area."
The $1,200 award recognizes the best SFU graduate student paper, in any discipline, that promotes understanding of cross-cultural activities, particularly as they apply to Canada and Asia Pacific.
Paul Yeung received his MA in counseling psychology from SFU in 2005. His thesis examined the psychosocial adjustment of Chinese immigrant children in so-called “satellite families.” (He found they were doing well and had good relationships with their parents, despite geographic separation.)
His prize-winning new paper, Tensions and Dilemmas Faced by Canadian and Chinese Immigrant Students in Canadian Schools, can be found at http://www.cic.sfu.ca/.
Yeung is research coordinator of an SFU study on multilingual development of children in early French immersion programs.
Note: Scanned photo available
The award is from an endowment Dr. Eng established within SFU's David Lam Centre for International Communication in honour of his late father, Paul Tai Yip Ng. "My father, who attended university in Beijing and France, was very interested in education and admired the centre's work on international communication," he says. "In commemorating his life, we are very pleased to be able to provide encouragement to young scholars and their research in this important area."
The $1,200 award recognizes the best SFU graduate student paper, in any discipline, that promotes understanding of cross-cultural activities, particularly as they apply to Canada and Asia Pacific.
Paul Yeung received his MA in counseling psychology from SFU in 2005. His thesis examined the psychosocial adjustment of Chinese immigrant children in so-called “satellite families.” (He found they were doing well and had good relationships with their parents, despite geographic separation.)
His prize-winning new paper, Tensions and Dilemmas Faced by Canadian and Chinese Immigrant Students in Canadian Schools, can be found at http://www.cic.sfu.ca/.
Yeung is research coordinator of an SFU study on multilingual development of children in early French immersion programs.
Note: Scanned photo available