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Student aid recipients are more likely 

to finish their degrees and to finish faster 

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CFIS Graduate Programs

◊ Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAPPS)

◊ Bioinformatics

◊ Cell and Developmental Biology (NEW)

◊ European Studies

◊ Genetics

◊ Genome Science and Technology (September, 2010)

◊ Neuroscience

◊ Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

◊ Interdisciplinary Oncology

◊ Planning

◊ Resource Management and Environmental Studies

◊ Women's and Gender Studies

More than 600 students in

12 graduate programs

CFIS provides students with a collaborative

research experience they might not

otherwise have working within a single

discipline. Students and faculty have an

extraordinary opportunity to solve complex

problems drawing on diverse disciplines.

Your gifts provide CFIS students with the

opportunity to pursue their passions, and

take their achievements out into the world.

S U P P O R T I N G T H E B E S T A N D T H E B R I G H T E S T

For More information on these or any CFIS student award,

or to set up a new student award, please contact:

Nancy Cardozo, Major Gifts Officer 

604-822-1313, nancy.cardozo@ubc.ca

Ryan Smith, Development Officer 

604-822-4376, ryan.smith@ubc.ca May 2010

◊ CFIS Student Aid Fund (All CFIS students

◊The Hung Hing Ying and Leung Hau Ling CharitableFoundation Graduate Scholarship

(Asia Pacific Policy Studies—MAPPS)

◊ UBC School of Environmental Health Graduate

Entrance Scholarship

(Occupational and Environmental Hygiene)

◊ Charlotte Douglas Fee Graduate Award

(Women's and Gender Studies)◊ School of Community and Regional Planning

Scholarship (Planning)

◊ Les Lavkulich Scholarship for Resources and

Environment

(Resource Management & Environmental Studies)

A Sampling of CFIS Graduate Student Awards

THE IMPACT OF STUDENT AWARDS

 Jennifer Bedore, MA (2011)Planning

BRAHM WEISMAN 

MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP 

This scholarship will enable me to

conduct research on best practices

 for irrigation management in the

Philippines. It will pay for 

accommodation, a research

assistant and travel costs. As I will 

be managing water resources in

developingcountries when I

graduate, this

experience is

crucial to my 

 future success.

 Annie Aftab, PhD (2012)Cell and Developmental Biology 

NSERC POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP 

Receiving this

award was a

real confidence

booster; it 

affirmed that I

was asking

important 

scientific

questions on how cancer invadesthe brain. As a graduate student I

go through many highs and lows,

and receiving an award like this

served as the accelerant I had been

looking for.

Thomas Harrison, PhD (2013)Neuroscience

CFIS GRADUATE AWARD 

My research

looks at brain

 plasticity during

the period of 

spontaneous

recovery after 

stroke. This

award came as a

 pleasant surprise. It fully covered my tuition and fees, which are a

substantial expense even for 

students holding external funding.