Polytechnique Montréal announced today that Makenna Kuzyk, a mechanical engineering graduate from the University of Alberta is the 2024 recipient of the $50,000 Order of the White Rose Scholarship, and that the scholarship will expand in 2025.
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2023 Order of the White Rose Scholarship recipient Amelia Dai
Amelia Dai
Amelia Dai, a UBC chemical and biological engineering graduate, was awarded the Order of the White Rose Scholarship by Polytechnique Montréal in 2023.
“Regardless of which discipline we work in, I believe that the core responsibility of engineers is to apply scientific problem-solving for the sustainable benefit of society, and this includes promoting inclusivity in the engineering space to ensure voices traditionally marginalized are acknowledged,” said Dai.
Dai was the ninth recipient of the Order of the White Rose, and the first UBC graduate to receive the scholarship.
Read her story here.
About the Order of the White Rose Scholarship
The Order of the White Rose Scholarship is open to women in engineering and graduates of any engineering undergraduate program who are planning to pursue an MASc or PhD in engineering. More information on the call for applications will be available in Winter 2025.
Over the years, the white rose has become the symbol of Polytechnique Montréal’s commemorative activities. Therefore, to mark the 25th anniversary of the events of December 6, 1989, which cost the lives of 14 young women and injured several others, Polytechnique created the Order of the White Rose in tribute to the victims as well as the wounded, the families, the faculty members, the employees and the students who were forever affected by the tragedy.
Learn more at https://www.polymtl.ca/ordreroseblanche/en