Congratulations to Marlene Medina. Marlene was chosen as the successful recipient of the PEIACSW Migrant Worker Rights Bursary. She is pursuing online studies.
The $750 Migrant Worker Rights Bursary is awarded to a woman-identifying resident of PEI who is or has been classified as a “temporary foreign worker” in Canada and is pursuing further education.
Congratulations to Tracey Demeulenaere, recipient of our Diane Kays Memorial Bursary. Tracey is in the Kinesiology Program at Holland College.
The $750 bursary is for a woman-identifying student who is a resident of PEI and registered full-time at UPEI, Holland College, or Collège de l’île and is pursuing a field where women are under-represented or who is an active advocate for women’s equality. The bursary remembers past Council Chairperson Diane Kays, who was a strong voice for vulnerable women and families on PEI.
Bursary winner Tracey
Demeulenaere.
Congratulations to Rana Alothman. Rana is the refugee woman selected by the Council’s Bursary Committee to receive the Inge Blackett Memorial Bursary. She is attending Holland College.
The $750 Inge Blackett Memorial Bursary is for a woman-identifying PEI resident who entered Canada as a refugee and is pursuing further education or training. This bursary remembers past Council Vice-Chairperson Inge Blackett, who when she died was the last Holocaust survivor on PEI.
PEI Status of Women Bursary Committee members Hsiao-Yu Liu (left) and Garima Mishra (right) with bursary winner Rana Alothman (middle).
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The next deadline to apply for these three bursaries is October 15, 2025.
More info: PEIACSW Bursary webpage
Congratulations also to Kaitlyn Smith, the recipient of the 2024 PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women Engineering Bursary at UPEI.
The PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women Engineering Bursary is awarded to women studying Engineering at UPEI, in recognition and support of women pursuing non-traditional fields; and it is awarded to a woman entering third year who maintains a passing average and demonstrates financial need. The bursary was established in 1995 by the Government of PEI on the twentieth Anniversary of the PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women. The bursary supports the Council’s work to encourage young women to choose careers in math and science fields and also pays tribute to the fourteen women engineering students who were murdered at L’Ecole Polytechnique in 1989.
This bursary is administered through the Registrar’s Office at UPEI and its deadline is October 1. For more information about this Engineering bursary, email [email protected] or call 902-620-5187.
