There are 166 winners of Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships. Of these, 34 are from the University of Toronto and several will be in the labs of my close colleagues. Congratulations to all the winners.
The scholarships will be administered by the three granting councils and each one is worth an astonishing $50,000 per year. That means that these scholarships amount to twice the level of funding of a typical graduate student at my university.
There's no sound logic behind awarding such a sum. T. Ryan Gregory points out that if the scholarships had been for $25,000 per year, the excess could have funded 73 research grants at an average of $34,000 per year. I agree that this money could have been better spent.
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Do you know how that would work out for stipends etc at U of T?
One of my friends won the Vanier scholarship. After the congratulations were effected, the first thing she was told was, "Wow, isn't it depressing now that when you finish your Ph.D. and begin your post-doc you'll likely make significantly less money?"
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