Congratulations to Daniel Schwade Araujo and Anne Manson, PhD students here at St. Boniface Hospital Research, who were both named 2021 Vanier Scholars.
Araujo, studying at the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, will undertake a PhD in Applied Health Sciences and works under Dr. Todd Duhamel, Principal Investigator Physical Activity and Chronic Disease Prevention, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences
Manson, a PhD student in CCARM’s Nutrition and Lipid Mediators Lab under Dr. Harold Aukema studies Plant And Animal Biology – Animal Physiology And Metabolism, and her research proposal is Diet by Sex Interactions on Oxylipins and Phospholipase A2 Activity in Rat Hearts.
The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) program is designed to strengthen Canada’s ability to attract and retain world-class doctoral students and establish Canada as a global centre of excellence in research and higher learning. Vanier Scholars demonstrate leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in the social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and/or engineering and health. The Vanier scholarship provides up to $50K per year for three years during doctoral studies.
Science and Economic Development Canada, together with Canada’s federal granting agencies, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, announced the results of the 2020-2021 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) and Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships, on July 16, 2021.