ECE alum launches scholarship for social innovation
Barbara Paldus (BASc ’93 electrical engineering, BMATH ’93) has established the Professor Josef Paldus Engineering Scholarship to advance innovation in biomedical engineering.
The scholarship's inaugural recipient is Hana Karim, a first-year biomedical engineering student.
Karim said the award has given her the financial freedom to look further afield for her co-op placements and “take the leap and go.”
She hopes to follow the interdisciplinary example set by Paldus in her graduate studies to complete a double major in medicine and law. She also shares a love of music with Paldus and is able to continue practicing piano more seriously while studying thanks to the financial flexibility the scholarship has afforded her.