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November 2005 ISSUE

EDUCATION

 

Memorial Scholarship Lands at U of A

Scholarship Winner
Annalisa Wilson, centre, an engineering student at the University of Alberta, accepts a Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation scholarship. With her are (from left) APEGGA Executive Director and Registrar Neil Windsor, P.Eng., Canadian Council of Professional Engineers Alberta Director Dan Motyka, P.Eng., APEGGA President Larry Staples, P.Eng., CCPE Past-President Darrel Danyluk, P.Eng., U of A Dean of Engineering David Lynch, P.Eng., and Dale Miller, P.Eng., past Alberta CCPE director.

 

University of Alberta engineering student Annalisa Wilson of Lantzville, B.C., is one of five engineering students across Canada to receive a $5,000 undergraduate engineering scholarship this year from the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation.

“The foundation is proud to present Annalisa with this well-deserved scholarship, and we have every confidence that she will continue to succeed in her future endeavours,” said Suzelle Barrington, ing., foundation president. “Annalisa, along with our other selected scholarship recipients, is a future leader in engineering.”

Ms. Wilson is active in her community as a Spark, Brownie and Guide leader, and she instructs physically challenged youths in horseback riding. She hopes to pursue her master’s degree in engineering and looks forward to talking to pre-university students as part of her scholarship responsibilities.

 Along with Ms. Wilson, this year’s recipients are Zoë Sarrat-Cave of Vancouver (University of British Columbia), Cynthia Ené of Montreal (McGill University), Andrea Evans of Ottawa, (Queen’s University), and Johanna Hoyt of Stillwater Lake, N.S., (Dalhousie University).

The foundation is “committed to creating a world where engineering meets the needs and challenges of society by engaging the skills and talents of both women and men alike,” says the news release announcing the winners. “To that end, it is dedicated to attracting women to the engineering profession so they may contribute in a truly inclusive manner.”

The foundation and the scholarship winners honour the memory of the 14 women from École Polytechnique whose contributions to Canada ended in a tragic shooting on Dec. 6, 1989.