The U of M Senate has revised offers of student awards in agreement with the student awards policy.
At the meeting on Aug. 20, the Senate committee on awards approved 10 new offers, 27 revised offers and eight award withdrawals as outlined in the report of the Senate committee on awards. Todd Duhamel, chair of the Senate committee, submitted the policy.
Among the new offers are the Aftab and Zehra Mufti scholarship for research in civil structural health monitoring which will award $5,000 annually to a graduate student in the Price faculty of engineering. Additionally, the Borden Ladner Gervais professional excellence bursary for law students will see a $500 increase in value to $2,000.
Some of the new awards include financial support and recognition across various faculties, such as the Dr. Elizabeth Boustcha bursary for female medical students and the Dr. Kerry Galenzoski scholarship for contributions to the queer community in psychiatry or outreach.
There have been several amendments to some awards like the Tracy and Brian Bowman Bison swimming scholarship and the International Graduate Student scholarship. Meanwhile, eight awards, including the Barbara Jean Payne memorial award in social gerontology, department of mathematics entrance scholarships, NSERC Julie Payette graduate scholarship, Wilhelm Guenter fellowship and the Roland Grandpre Asper MBA entrance scholarship are being withdrawn at the request of donors.
New research funding agreements that were processed between Jan. 1 and Jun. 30, totalling over $20,000 individually, amounted to more than $37 million as disclosed during the Oct. 2 Senate meeting.
The largest of these agreements, being $16,980,074, was received by James Blanchard of the college of medicine from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Significant funding allocations were made to the college of medicine, the faculty of agricultural and food sciences and other faculties. Amendments to existing research agreements were made, resulting in additional funding for the college of medicine, college of nursing and the faculty of science.
