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Canada Council Killam Prize winners on CBC Ideas

Posted by Killam Trusts on May 15, 2015 in General Announcements

The five Canada Council Killam Prize winners will be featured on CBC IDEAS Friday night (May 15) at 9:05 on CBC Radio One.

Listen to their stories and find out what inspired them to carry out the ground breaking research that culminated in their winning of the $100,000 2015 Canada Council Killam Prize.
 
Profiled will be
David Bentley – Humanities (Western)
Lorne Tyrrell – Health Sciences (UAlberta)
Donald Savoie – Social Sciences (UMoncton)
Victoria Kaspi – McGill (Natural Sciences)
Vijay Bhargava – UBC (Engineering)
 
The Killam Trusts were established in memory of Izaak Walton Killam through the Will of his wife, Dorothy J. Killam, and through gifts made during her lifetime. Their primary purpose is to support advanced education and research at five Canadian Universities and the Canada Council for the Arts.

The five universities are:
Dalhousie University
The Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University
The Canada Council for the Arts
University of Alberta
University of Calgary
University of British Columbia