Killam Fellowships awarded to engineering students
Two Concordia engineering students have been selected to further their studies in the United States through the prestigious Killam Fellowships Program.
Concordia civil engineering student Maude Chalin is at Kansas State University this fall. She is currently studying architectural engineering, specifically the connections between the internal functioning of structures and aesthetics.
Stephen Birarda, a computer science student, is also a recipient of a Killam Fellowship Award and is at San Francisco State University for the 2011-12 academic year. While there, he will learn new ways to create dynamic websites using various web programming languages and database systems.
“It gives me great pleasure to congratulate Maude Chalin and Stephen Birarda on their achievements and being selected as Killam Fellows,” says Michael Hawes, executive director of the Foundation for Educational Exchange between Canada and the United States. “Both students recognize the cultural value of this program, as well as its academic uses. We wish them all the best in their studies.”
Chalin grew up in Montreal before attending Concordia University. She enjoys living in Montreal because of its vibrant, cultural diversity and bustling artistic scene.
Birarda lived in Calgary before moving to Hong Kong in 2007 to complete his secondary education. During his exchange to Hong Kong, he travelled extensively around the region. He is also an avid hockey player, and recently participated in the Killam Fellowships Program’s fall orientation Fulbright Canada pick-up hockey game.
Killam Fellowships give exceptional undergraduate students from select universities in Canada and the U.S. the opportunity to spend either one semester or a full academic year as an exchange student in the other country.
The program is administered by the Fulbright Canada Foundation for Educational Exchange between Canada and the United States. The foundation also administers the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program, which is supported by the Canadian government through Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, by the United States government through the U.S. Department of State, and by a diverse group of corporate sponsors, charitable trusts, and university partners.
Related links:
• Concordia’s Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
• Concordia’s Computer Science and Software Engineering Department
• Killam Fellowships
• Fulbright Canada