{"id":1139,"date":"2015-07-21T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/indocanadianstudies\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2015-07-21T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T18:16:00","slug":"canada-india-chair-sponsors-scholarship-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/2015\/07\/21\/canada-india-chair-sponsors-scholarship-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada-India Chair Sponsors Scholarship Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BC Regional Innovation Chair in Canada-India Business and Economic Development sponsored one of the scholarships at this year&#8217;s annual Scholarship Night which is hosted by the Fraser Valley Indo-Canadian Business Association. Each year, stellar students from all schools in Abbotsford apply to receive a $1,000 scholarship in recognition of academic excellence and community outreach.<\/p>\n<p>UFV Representative, Dr. Adrienne Chan, the Associate Vice-President of Research, Engagement, and Graduate Studies at UFV, presented the scholarship and award to Abbotsford Senior Secondary Student Pranav Arya on behalf of the Chair. Dr. Chan stated: &#8220;UFV prides itself in supporting young students in their post-secondary endeavors. We are very pleased to be able to give this award to an Abbotsford Secondary School student. This award support facilitates learning and provides a boost to students when they begin such an\u00a0important stage in their learning and career development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The keynote address for the evening was Dr. Darrly Plecas, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health and MLA of Abbotsford South. Dr. Plecas is also a former Criminology instructor at UFV and now is a Professor Emeritus at UFV.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2015\/07\/IMG_5819.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1154\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2015\/07\/IMG_5819-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5819\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2015\/07\/IMG_5823.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1155\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2015\/07\/IMG_5823-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5823\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BC Regional Innovation Chair in Canada-India Business and Economic Development sponsored one of the scholarships at this year&#8217;s annual Scholarship Night which is hosted by the Fraser Valley Indo-Canadian Business Association. Each year, stellar students from all schools in Abbotsford apply to receive a $1,000 scholarship in recognition of academic excellence and community outreach. &#8230; <a title=\"Canada-India Chair Sponsors Scholarship Night\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/2015\/07\/21\/canada-india-chair-sponsors-scholarship-night\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}