| Schulich Leader Scholarships | |
| Founded: | 2011 |
| Endowment: | $200 million |
| Key People: | Seymour Schulich |
| Location: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Addnl Location: | Canada, Israel |
| Num Members: | 1485.[1] |
| Website: | schulichleaders.com |
The Schulich Leader Scholarships is a Canadian and Israeli undergraduate award program that provides scholarships for students enrolled in STEM areas of study. Established in 2011 following a $100 million gift from Canadian businessman and philanthropist Seymour Schulich[2] and co-administered by the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto,[3] the program was initiated with the goal of producing STEM leaders to strengthen the economic competitiveness of Canada and Israel.[4] In the inaugural year, 977 high schools and CÉGEPs across Canada put forward a nominee to compete in the annual award competition.[5] In 2015, 1,250 students were nominated, fifty of whom were selected for the scholarship by one of the twenty participating universities.[6] In 2020, the size of the program doubled in Canada, offering 100 scholarships annually totalling $11 million CAD.
In Canada, all secondary schools may submit a single nominee for the award each year, with the exception of CÉGEPs in Québec, which may submit four. To be eligible for the scholarship, nominees must meet two criteria: (1) academic excellence, (2) leadership, charisma and creativity. Strong consideration will be given to students with financial need. Nominees must also be entrepreneurial-minded and intend to pursue a career in one or more of the following focus areas: (a) Technology; (b) Engineering; (c) Entrepreneurship and business enterprise; (d) Applied scientific research. [7]
Choosing from the pool of nominees who have applied to their institution, each of twenty participating universities select two students to become Schulich Leader Scholarship recipients - one student pursuing undergraduate studies in engineering receives a scholarship valued at $120,000 CAD, while the second scholarship, allocated to a student in one of the other three STEM disciplines, has a $100,000 CAD value.[8]
In addition to the Canadian program, Schulich Leader Scholarships is being carried out at five participating universities in Israel.[9]
In Israel, nominees are evaluated based on similar attributes: leadership, academic standing, and financial need.[10]
Each university selects ten Schulich Leaders annually: five engineer-based Leaders and five science, technology or mathematics-based Leaders.[11] In 2020, Technion - Institute for Technology launched a custom Schulich Leaders Entrepreneurship Program that awards 15 annual scholarship recipients through an independent in-person screening process. Applicants are eligible after year one of undergraduate study, receiving financial support for two to three years of their Bachelor's degrees and are immersed in a valuable entrepreneurship enrichment program. [12]
The following university partners distribute Schulich Leader Scholarships:
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| 2012 | Jessie Russell Jeff Chen[13] | Cassandra Elphinstone[14] Jen-ai Lai[15] | Jennifer Borchert Aliya Khan | |
| 2013 | Deven Azevedo[16] [17] Andy Zeng | Jake Blan[18] [19] Gurman Khera | Paul Kim[20] [21] Sarah Khan | |
| 2014 | Raaj Chatterjee[22] [23] [24] Nancy Lum[25] | |||
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| 2017 | Basil GiannopoulosJasmine Rai | Miranda AndersenGibson Clark Ali Janjiana Andrew Tong | Saba Askari Jafar AbadiHelen Spry | |
| 2018 | Antonia KowalewskiBradley Schellenberg | Emily CrossRonin Cunningham Rebecca Lim Mateo Pekic | Spencer HancockKarlee Zaruk | |
| 2019 | Erin FloodPhilip Stachura | Nika MartinussenLauren Moody Aidan Mundle Helen Zhang | Elise CoatesSacha Stipec | |
| 2020 | Chloe MaTejash Poddar | Kailey BeckieSusan Chung Aidan Eglin Yosamin Esanullah Adam Gurbin Rita Jin Ethan Lodermeier Romina Mahinpei Niki McIntosh James Ropotar | Victor KamelSean Lee | |
| 2021 | Sierra CarmichaelTyler McClellan | Mohammed Al-SeragiRaven Caron Mina Chong Carlos Georgescu Xavier Lam Solenne Le Billon Emilie Ma Sarvesh Singh Robin Yadav Rowan Zawadzki | Denaisha KraftMy Huy Lim | |
| 2022 | Evan DyceMaya Rink | Ethan ChanLyra FletcherManorama JoshiRaphael KellyEdward LiSarthak Tyagi | Sophie PavlikRenata Kamel | |
| 2023 | Alexander CharnetskiLilian Pham | Shailah AggarsonGrace GaoJeanette GuoZachary XieLeo XuAlexander Zhong | Mohammad AwwadEvan Warburton | |
| 2024 | Tarnjot Singh AujlaEmily McKinnon | Maya AchuthanEmma CreelmanJenna HamiltonPatrick HuynhAnush MutyalaNathan Zhao | Cohen CheethamMahir Singh |
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| 2018 | Gillian BeskoAnoushka Gaekwad | Maria BacligRylan Marianchuk | Vaidehee LankeJoel Pollak | Michael KehlerAlex Kitt | |
| 2019 | Aakankshya KharelAnna Mueller | Elian Dupre SarmientoAllison Guthrie | Morgan BeattieAshim Dhital | Mia BattadNikolaus Reichert | |
| 2020 | Jessica HammalGrafton Hopkins Shubhkarman Jaura Rajan Maghera Benjamin Sharp Jeffrey Sinclair | Michael KohlmanPhilippa Madill Jenna Murphy Shubh Patel Cole Roberts Raunak Sandhu | Arliss SidloskiOlivia Stewart | Joshua BondShubhneet Thind | |
| 2021 | Cynthia CuiJennifer Huynh Jordan Kurtzweg Sandra Taskovic Kevin Uzomechine Tomas Walter | Lujaina EldelebshanyMalana Loxam Gabriel Rodriguez Aarsh Shah Michael Tan Finn Vamosi | Eva SosninaCole Willmann | Darlene CuevasJordon Hong | |
| 2022 | Colin ChanDivya Prasad Geli Ferriss Hunaid Khan Muhammed Shareef Rion Schulz[57] | Alison StanleyAna DuCristea Caleb Melin Iliana Hodgins Nabihah Hussaini Nikko Po | Ami RaiSarah Ens | Marina Caracas Le-Fort[58] Rebekah Soneye | |
| 2023 | Ashbani KaurColin Fearing[59] [60] Maxwell Nganyadi Peter Menghesha Sofia Sejutee Stephen Squires | Albert KalayilAyden De Neve Kiana Urekar Morteza Faraji Silas Mertz Tori Rose | Aurora AprilTalia Iwanchysko | Cody McDonaldSimar Ubhi | |
| 2024 | Charlise BruchetOliver (Youdong) Chen Chaeeun Lee Selena Pang Gabriel Thacker Shen Zhou | Rumeza FatimaAbigail Kyliuk Zalia Lee Olivia McAuley Zachary Morden Timothy Sears | Sahas MittalRowan Redekopp | Gregory PetrykLandon Reid |
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| 2018 | Julia AzziShannon Buck Emelyn Kupinski Nikola Petrevski | Angela ChoiSonal Gupta Sophia Ludovice Peter Matthews | Roslin ChenAngelica Paynter | Daniel HoogsteenMarkus Kunej Sidrah Rana Eli Scott | David GuAtif Mahmud Advait Maybhate Robin Wen | Ryan HarlenTony Xu | Katrina CarverJack Wawrow | |
| 2019 | Arielle AinabeHenry Gage Jessie Meanwell Arjun Snider | Anthony GalassiIsabeau Lewis Andrew Stachow George Trieu | Neve ForemanEllen Perry | Aidan BritnellAdam Glustein Caleb Lammers Thomas Moffat | Jason AmriEvangeline Dryburgh Zeel Patel Shahed Saleh | Katie BrownLiam Israels | Kathryn ChinRebecca Werner | |
| 2020 | Shathurshika ChandrakumarErin Donahue-Boyle Magalie Durepos-Létourneau Tomas Frankovich Samuel Khzym Hayley Monson Tyler Ng Ahmed Raja Aaron Shannon Anthony Vu | Catherine AustinRabab Azeem Emma Davison Abdellah Ghassel Sharaf Khan Liyi Ma Shashank Ojha Emanuel Piccininni Nazanin Soghrati Dajung Yoon | Angéline LafleurJeremy Leigh | Christopher AdolpheMallory Bond Adele Crete-Laurence Aaron D'Mello Zack Fine Daniel Hocevar Aditi Misra Azeem Mohammad Jessica Ritter Matthew Toohey | Anish AggarwalTara Ferguson Christina Hanna Courtney Kates Jacob Mausberg Yashvardhan Mulki Dhruv Upadhyay Tyler West Jason Xiong Peter Zhu | Natalie LoewenCharlotte Motuzas Katja Murray Elizabeth Olsson Cole Sweet Christy Xie | Luca FilippelliAmen Okungbowa | |
| 2021 | Sathurshan ArulmohanJay Botham Nadia Breault Annika Culhane Michael Fedotov Erin Rebello Daniel Sampson Joseph Saturnino Alexander Vicol Nethra Wickramasinghe | Sabrina ButtonCassie Douglas Julia Dyck Bono Eticha Hayley Galsworthy Nathan Gerryts Theo Lemay Simon Long Louise Turner Olivia Xu | Affaan AliMadelin Rioux | Lisa BeraLucas Crupi Jacob Kolyakov Anisha Latchman Andrew Magnuson Savanna Pan Kevin Qu Youssef Soliman Leanne Tran Emily Zhou | Shanaya BarrettoSaptarshi Bhattacherya Alicia Bremer Andy Dong Heidi Hon Aung Khant Min Kushal Mujral Dina Orucevic Eric Pei Brianna Thomas | Christian GoffAndréa Jackson Aimée Petrea Chiripuci Mandric Sittaro Shaelagh Stephan Daniel Weppler | Kiara MavalwalaAryan Soni | |
| 2022 | Michelle AdamsRebecca Barbera Camille Gillespie Arnica Khaton Javayria Mudassar Kaylee Rich Ziqi Shang Tyler Smith Amanda Sullivan Kyle Sung | Gabrielle Barsky-GilesMichael Cassidy Emma Dafoe Liam Doris Ahmad El-Barbary Hussam Hayek Tacen Huezo Vivian Hughes Lucas Komljenovic Connor Leung | Ella BigneyAmanda Doku | Mahjabeen AliLauren Altomare Sheryl Buttar Kai Chen Armaandeep Dhanoa Robert Firsov Logan MacDonald Alexander Macri Azlan Naeem Lucy Shen | Subha AzrinTudor Barsan Charlotte Brown Norman Chen Maggie Liu Krishna Patel Ashwin Roperia Sarah Wilson Michael Xu Jonathan Zhou | Alexander ChinBrent Davison Eric Hout Holly Morton Marianna Speranza Tina Xu | Hannah AlliNeill Botushanski | |
| 2023 | Fireese BergElla Chow Riley Finnigan Matthew Kenney Jocelyn Kuntsi Edris Lutfi Timothy Morcombe Rachel Veldhuizen Julian Vesprini Amelie Zahoruk | Keegan AmosTorrin Bigrigg Qwin Goodwin Ishaan Grewal Raymond Guo Oliver Lynn Leila Salem Sarena Sandhu Elliott Vince Paul Wu | Steffen ZylstraRachel Luo | Celina ChenLucas Hilden Manroop Kalsi Tiana Kayemba Serewaya Latif Chloe Lee Adam Omarali Sanjit Neil Samanta Samantha Sedran Mark Xiang | Evangeline BouganimBrandon De Lazzari Eric Gao Mikael Haji Scott Hao Caroline Huang Mahi Joshi Manasva Katyal Josephina Kim Ammielle Wambo Becker | Cole BranstonEmma Harmos William Jamieson Kai Laugesen Khalad Osman Rezwan Sadeqi | Mitchell ClappertonJasmine Gherman | |
| 2024 | Julia Da SilvaMuhammed Gangat Luca Iacovelli Andre Kim Taylor Knelsen Pari Markanday Isabel McDonald Timéo Puyet Darshan Shah Fatima Rain-Mariz Tolentino | Pooria AhmadiBrigitte Armatys Charis Chang Allison Goodyear Kearin Gough Dolev Klein Harari Mykola Luty Cameron MacDonald Caitlin Roach Joyce Wong | Kevin JosephTchoutat Évence Laël Batobo | Ammar AhmadArkhyp Boryshkevych Samantha Chan Caleb Irwin Srijit Iyer Connor Jantzi Jonathan Li Phalguni Nandakumar Julia Sinclair Noah Vig-Fernandes | Johnnie ChenSalma El Gohary Elisa Gabriele Aditya Makkar Ronak Patel Evan Ralph Emma Shi Noah Sonser Pari Vansjalia Daniel Zhang | Viktoriia BohomazovaJayabhishek Chaudhary Reuben DeBoer Mihir Dinavahi Keira Hanlon Himnish Kaila Ryan Marsh Oliver Ridge Rebecca Sirkin Davin Tapp | Bill Nhat NguyenKrishiv Panchal |
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| 2017 | Iva DemirovaKatherine Sirois | Frédéric Larocque | Stefan Horoi | Nicolas FillionGabrielle Martineau | |
| 2018 | Miasya BulgerRaphael Hotter | Vlad Drelciuc | Robin Legault | Maria-Laure FilionMonica Gagnier | |
| 2019 | Cyril ManiMarin Schultz | Danick Lamoureux | Alexanne Bisson | Maxime LangevinSamuel Lefançois | |
| 2020 | Christopher ChongAnne Sarah Dickman Joey Koay Ana Eugenia Quintero Garcia Louis-Philippe Robichaud Maggie Xiong | Kathleen Lupien | Francis Clavette | Laurie DauplaiseSimon Gauthier | |
| 2021 | Rianna DuttaIvy Guo Jessie Kurtz Gabrielle Lavoie Stephen Lu Albert Nitu | Charles Iorio-Duval | Rose Malenfant-Poulin | Médéric Chalifour | |
| 2022 | Aerin BrownSasha Nicolas Dolgopolyy Tavio Ficaccio Josh Gertsvolf Eya Ibrahim Kristina Kerkelova Sophia Li Alexander Lyakishev Maya Foster Thompson Allison Tsypin | Victoria-Mae Carrière | Etienne Collin[98] [99] [100] | Yeva Côté-ParadisFélix Desroches | |
| 2023 | Kini ChenAviv DavidVictor DekarliKevin HeIsabella HensleyLuke HerasRyan MarshallTanya SohrabiJanelle TamErika Wu | Vincent Gagné | Marianne François | William BoissonneaultMarianne Mercier | |
| 2024 | Andreea-Nicole CalenciucNami DwyerAllison HutchingsYanni KlironomosDaniel ValentiniAthanasios Wees | Stefanie Lee Milczarek | Béatrice Viscogliosi | Athena GanesaratnamWilliam Huang |
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| 2017 | Madeleine CrawfordNathan McNally | Kate ArpinBrad Jones | Jessica BlattaZack Rooney | |
| 2018 | Gaia NoseworthyAnna Postill | Anna MinarikKayla Thomson | Alex JanesCallie Melindy | |
| 2019 | Ashton GriggVardaan Malhotra | Ethan EastwoodMaxwell Bauer | Kendra BurdenShiloh Burton | |
| 2020 | Jessica DeanStephen White | Kiara BergagniniCorbin Bowering Rylan Cloney Zachary Fraser Soonmoc Kang Lauren La Porte | Tara GoverTanisha Tucker | |
| 2021 | Julien HachéMatthew Toms-Zuberec | Sundaram BiswasEwan Glover Nicole Jones Mattie Leslie-Toogood Mary MacInnis Alexander Petkov | Jake BreenHannah Claire Doyle | |
| 2022 | Isaac BuckinghamMicah Landry | Ispeeta AhmedMia Curry Emma McFarlane Ryan Neal Natha Paquette Ethan Yee | Jason MatthewsSamantha Morgan | |
| 2023 | Hannah KamogawaChelsea McKinley | John Michael BrownXander Brown Matthew Gentleman Saul Hafting Liam Legge Layla Owens | Caleb AnsteySilas Moore | |
| 2024 | Benjamin BilskyJacob Ledoux | Harrison BasquillMiriam Epstein Katya McBeth Jami McDowell Seth Morency Jules Owen-Pole | Annika Das-PalJanaya Pittman |
| Year / University | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | Tel Aviv University | Bar-Ilan University | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Ben-Gurion University | |
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| 2018 | Dese BazonachRivka Calinsky Elad Cohen Shahar Duani Omer Gliksman Alicia Petrunin Hadas Romov Gal Shenkar Maya Van Gelder Almog Yarom | Michael AlayevLina Borsky Adi Cohen Katrina Erinchak Nir Kalif Babish Nir Maixner Yuval Malka Yosef Perlmutter Jonathan Svorai Sivan Zohar | Eliya BronshteinAryeh Friedman Romi Goldner Rachel Hen Shukrun Ori Karni Nerya Lifshitz Yeela Persky Yuval Sirotkin Alon Tomashin Yitzchak Weber | Shir AttiasMeshi Djerassi Shir Halachi Hanan Lugassy Guy Oikawa Shira Oryah Oz Peretz Mohamad Sheme Eyal Yagel Daniela Yardeni | Aviad AhrakAnna Axalrod Dvir Cohen Hadar Gamlieli Roi Horwitz Sapir Malik Katrin Nehin Deborah Russek Or Saar Yaely Segman |