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Women recognized for being community leaders, volunteers, role models
A U of G student is one of eight women across the country to receive a 2006 Canadian Engi- neering Memorial Foundation Scholarship. The awards were created to encourage women to choose a career in engineering and to honour the memory of the 14 women who were slain at Montreal's École Polytechnique in 1989.
Melanie Mullen, an environmental engineering student and vice-president of Guelph's Engineers Without Borders, was awarded one of five $5,000 undergraduate scholarships. Recipients are chosen for being community leaders, active volunteers and role models, especially for girls and young women.
Scholarship winners also promote engineering as a career through local schools and community programs.
The Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation believes in change and positive enlightenment within the engineering profession, says Mullen. I am honoured to represent the University of Guelph and Ontario this year.
She says the scholarship will allow her to continue speaking to elementary and high school students about engineering, unity and well-being.
I believe in being active and I believe in change. That's why this award means so much to me, because it supports and promotes the consciousness of our peers. We have this wonderful ability to share and to learn from each other. This is and will increasingly remain a crucial factor in our survival. If we face the coming environmental and social challenges together, we will be able to support each other the way this award has supported engineering for years.
Mullen, who came to Guelph from Niagara Falls, is also active in the Sierra Youth Coalition of Canada, Guelph Students for Environmental Change and Environment Radio on CFRU.
