MONTREAL – This week Bell Canada announced the winners of the Bell 125th Anniversary Scholarship.
The plan, which was announced earlier this year, is a cornerstone of Bell Canada’s 125th anniversary celebrations.
Bell has awarded $125,000 in one-time graduate scholarships to full-time Canadian students pursuing post-graduate degrees at universities across Canada. Each of the ten recipients receives a one-time scholarship of $12,500 to continue their studies at a post-graduate level.
The scholarships have been awarded to students studying in a variety of fields including wireless communications, photonics, satellite communications, computer science, cryptology and sociology.
"We congratulate the ten individuals who were selected from an outstanding group of 273 candidates," said Patrick Pichette, president operations, Bell Canada. "The graduate scholarship plan reflects Bell’s longstanding and continuing commitment to support education and academic research in Canada.”
The winners are:
* Wenhong Chen, University of Toronto, Sociology
* Jaewook Chung, University of Waterloo, Cryptography
* Rene Gagne, Ecole de technologie supérieure, Microélectronique
* Lukasz Golab, University of Waterloo, Computer Science
* Yair Linn, The University of British Columbia, Electrical Engineering
* Eddie Ng, The University of Toronto, Photonic Networks
* Rudi Phillion, The University of Calgary, Satellite Communications
* Yaser, Fallah Pourmohammadi, The University of British Columbia, Electrical Engineering
* Michael Riediger, Simon Fraser University, Engineering Science
* Benoit Turgeon, Institut national de recherche scientifique, Reconnaissance Automatique De La Parole
