Honourable Murray Coell

Premier announces $10 million for Pacific Century Graduate Scholarships
June 12, 2007

Premier Gordon Campbell announces a $10-million investment to create the province’s first-ever graduate scholarship program to attract the best and brightest students to B.C.’s four research universities. The Pacific Century Graduate Scholarship program provides 1,000 scholarships, worth $10,000 each, over the next four years to master’s, doctoral and post-doctoral students at the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the University of Victoria and the University of Northern B.C. From left, Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell, graduate student David Flanders and Premier Campbell at UBC. [News release]

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