A fund to encourage promising young students to undertake advanced research in the humanities and the Human Sciences, was endowed on February 20. This fund follows up on the commitment made in Canada's Innovation Strategy, released last week, to create a world-class fellowship program to encourage exceptional students from Canada and abroad to conduct advanced work on current issues of social end public policy facing Canadian Society.

The fund will be administered by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and will support up to 100 fellowships for doctoral and postdoctoral students. It will also help establish a Knowledge network to support these students, in part by funding mid-career achievement awards for eminent scholars and encouraging mentor relationships in the humanities.

The work undertaken by fellowship and mid-career award winners will be expected to cover specific themes reflective of Pierre Elliott Trudeau's personal interests, including: human rights and social justice, federalism, responsible citizenship, Canada and the world, and humans and their natural environment. For further information, contact: Selena Beattie (613) 995 9001.