Beverly Bradley, a PhD candidate in the Centre for Global Engineering, is the recipient of the 2013 Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Scholarship, which is provided through the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation (CEMF) and awarded to a top female doctoral student each year. She was chosen for her passion for biomedical engineering and its applications to poverty and global development, as well as for her mentoring and volunteer work.Bradley was one of the lead mentors on this year’s Global Ideas Institute, which brought together high school students from across the GTA with U of T student mentors and leading experts to examine and propose solutions to the challenge of scaling up micronutrient programs for malnourished children in low and middle income countries. Bradley managed mentor activities, led training workshops, and worked with mentors to ensure their sessions ran smoothly. She played an integral role in the GII’s success.
Says Bradley, “My participation as a mentor shows students, particularly the young women, that engineers have an important role to play in finding solutions to big global challenges.”
