Vanier Scholar News Archive
![Anne Manson](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Anne-Manson-150x150.jpg)
Faculty of Graduate Studies
2021 Vanier Scholar: Anne Manson
July 15, 2021 —
The University of Manitoba is proud to welcome four Vanier Scholars
![Felicia Masenu](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Felicia-4-150x150.jpg)
Faculty of Graduate Studies
2021 Vanier Scholar: Felicia Masenu
July 15, 2021 —
The University of Manitoba is proud to welcome four Vanier Scholars.
![Left to right: Vanier Scholars - Felicia Masenu, Karli Rapinda, Daniel Arujo, Anne Manson and Banting Fellows - Lauren Kepkiewicz, Phil Grayson](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Vaniers_Bantings2021-all6-umtoday-FNL-150x150.jpg)
Banting Fellows and Vanier Scholars awarded to UM
July 15, 2021 —
UM welcomes two Banting Postdoctoral Fellows to its ranks and congratulates four doctoral students on receiving Vanier Scholarships
![Chris Moskal and Diana Craig, second year medical students](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/91602147_144600733637055_5988094350985265152_n-150x150.jpg)
Top stories of 2020
December 22, 2020 —
A year to remember or a year to forget? The COVID-19 pandemic dominated headlines across the globe, including here at the University of Manitoba, but there was always light behind the dark clouds. Positive stories shone through.
![2020 Vanier Scholar-Belal Zia](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2020-Vanier-Scholar-Belal-Zia-150x150.jpg)
Faculty of Graduate Studies
Meet Belal Zia, one of five of UM’s 2020 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship recipients
June 22, 2020 —
UM Today caught up with Zia to chat about how the Vanier Scholarship will support his research titled: Promoting treatment seeking among Canadian Muslims: The development, implementation and evaluation of a psychoeducational intervention utilizing the theory of planned behaviour and internalized stigma model.
![2020 Vanier Scholar-Rachel Nickel](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2020-Vanier-Scholar-Rachel-Nickel-150x150.jpg)
Faculty of Graduate Studies
Meet Rachel Nickel, one of five of UM’s 2020 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship recipients.
June 22, 2020 —
UM Today caught up with Nickel to chat about how the Vanier Scholarship will support her research titled: Understanding and using the new physics of shape-selective magnetic nanoparticles: New ammunition for attacking biofilms.
![2020 Vanier Scholar-Sarah Turner copy](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2020-Vanier-Scholar-Sarah-Turner-copy-150x150.jpg)
Faculty of Graduate Studies
Meet Sarah Turner, one of five of UM’s 2020 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship recipients.
June 22, 2020 —
UM Today caught up with Turner to chat about how the Vanier Scholarship will support her research titled: Breastfeeding and child behaviour: Understanding the link through five different pathways in the Canadian CHILD birth cohort study.
![2020 Vanier Scholar-Ashley Hayward](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2020-Vanier-Scholar-Ashley-Hayward-1-150x150.jpg)
Faculty of Graduate Studies
Meet Ashley Hayward, one of five of UM’s 2020 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship recipients.
June 22, 2020 —
UM Today caught up with Hayward to chat about how the Vanier Scholarship will support her research titled: Incarcerated mother’s experience with pregnancy and childbirth: A narrative inquiry.
![2020 Vanier Scholar-Javad Alizadeh](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2020-Vanier-Scholar-Javad-Alizadeh-1-150x150.jpg)
Research and International
Meet Javad Alizadeh, one of five of UM’s 2020 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship recipients.
June 22, 2020 —
UM Today caught up with Alizadeh to chat about how the Vanier Scholarship will support his research titled: The role of mitophagy and extracellular matrix (ECM) stiffness in the regulation of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and subsequent metastasis in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) model.
![UM's 2020 Vanier Scholars from left to right: Javad Alizadeh, Ashley Hayward, Belal Zia, Rachel Nickel, Sarah Turner.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/VanierScholars2020-UMToday-PR1-150x150.jpg)
Five Vanier Scholars will call UM home in 2020
June 19, 2020 —
Considered to be the Canadian equivalent of the United Kingdom’s Rhodes Scholarships, these $150,000 awards will help recruit and keep top doctoral students from across the country and around the world