Richard Ivey Foundation Scholarships

The Richard Ivey Foundation, a major Canadian philanthropic organization, has donated $125,000 to Trent to establish new science scholarships for full-time graduate students, to begin in 2000-01. The awards will be in the area of forest biodiversity for students whose research involves them in studies at the university's new Oliver Ecological Centre near Bobcaygeon.

Paul Healy, Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, notes that a portion of the Ivey funds will be matched by the Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities through the Ontario Graduate Scholarships in Science and Technology (OGS-ST) program, which will provide Trent with an additional $100,000 over the next eight years. The Ivey/OGS-ST awards will be valued at $15,000 per year, and will be available to science students in either the Watershed Ecosystems or Applications of Modelling graduate programs.

The balance of the Ivey donation will be used, over the next five years, to create two new scholarships per year worth $7,500 for graduate students conducting thesis research on any aspect of terrestrial ecology.

Prof. Tom Hutchinson, first Director of the Centre, praised the Ivey Foundation's dedication to ecology. "The research achieved will be invaluable in developing the Oliver Centre as a major long-term ecological centre in Canada."