Students receive Canada Millennium Scholarships

The national spotlight continues to shine brightly on Malaspina University-College students.

Laura Booi, Robert Hamilton and Lisa Radetic are each $4,000 richer after receiving 2007 Canada Millennium National In-Course Scholarships.

In-Course scholarships recognize and foster academic excellence and active citizenship in students who have completed second year of a degree program or first year of a diploma program.

Hamilton and Booi, both enrolled in the Bachelor of Arts program (major in Psychology) are active volunteers in Malaspina University-College’s Immunocytochemistry Lab with Psychology professor Dr. Elliott Marchant. They are involved in several research projects relating to how the brain works.

Radetic, a student in the Bachelor of Business Administration program, is president of the Malaspina Business Student Association. She spearheaded a recent leadership conference for post-secondary students at the Nanaimo campus.

The Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation also awarded a $4,000 Excellence scholarship to Malaspina student Tamara Van Den Broek. This award recognizes leadership, community involvement, innovation and academic achievement in high school students beginning their first year of post-secondary study.

Van Den Broek began Malaspina's Bachelor of Science program in September. While completing high school in Tahsis, she was yearbook editor, and student representative on the Parent Advisory Council and School Planning Committee. She was also a member of the Lions Club, Fisheries and Salmon Enhancement group, and other community organizations.

Meanwhile, first year Malaspina Forestry student Wayne Armstrong received a provincial Garfield Weston Merit Scholarship award valued at $2,500. These awards recognize students who combine academic promise with character, leadership potential and a commitment to service.

Malaspina President Ralph Nilson congratulated this year’s group of millennium scholarship winners and the Garfield Weston Merit Scholarship winner at a luncheon in Malaspina’s Discovery Room, adding “these are busy and dedicated student leaders and everyone at Malaspina is very proud of their achievements.”

The Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation is a private and independent organization created by an act of Parliament in 1998. It encourages Canadian students to strive for excellence and pursue their post-secondary studies.

Since its inception, the Foundation has awarded over $1.2 billion to over 350,000 students across Canada. Students in financial need have received more than one billion dollars in bursaries. Students who demonstrate exceptional merit have received scholarships with a total value of almost twenty-one million dollars.