Rhodes Scholar sets sights on bettering the world
Health sciences undergraduate Sarah St. John was among BC’s newest Rhodes scholars in 2011. She’ll use the scholarship to pursue a master’s in public policy at Oxford University in 2012.
http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2011/sfu-rhodes-scholar-sets-sights-on-bettering-the-world.html
SFU pair win Trudeau Scholarships
Resource and environmental management PhD student Brent Loken and English PhD student Alana Gerecke won prestigious Trudeau Scholarships worth $180,000 each in 2011.
http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2011/sfu-pair-win-trudeau-scholarships.html
Young entrepreneur joins The Next 36
Fourth-year student Jessica Fan was selected in 2011 to join The Next 36, a year-old entrepreneurial leadership program that seeks out the country’s most promising undergraduate entrepreneurs and challenges them to create their own ventures.
http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2011/young-entrepreneur-joins-the-next-36.html
Physics whiz wins 100k scholarship
Physics PhD student Michel Trottier-McDonald received a $105,000 Alexander Graham Bell Graduate Scholarship in 2011 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to support his doctoral research in high-energy physics.
http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2011/physics-whiz-wins-100k-scholarship.html