Tiana Putric, a fourth-year Disaster & Emergency Management student in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) has been awarded the Fulbright Canada Killam Fellowship, a bi-national exchange for exceptional undergraduate students in Canada and the United States.
Putric is one of chosen to participate in the prestigious program that aims to promote Canada-U.S. relations.
“In Canada, all top universities participate in this Fellowship, including U of T (University of Toronto), Western, Queens, McMaster, McGill and Dalhousie. I’ve chosen to complete my degree at Boston’s Wellesley College, where I have the option of cross-registering at MIT and Harvard,” said Putric.
Putric said the award was a welcomed honour and a bright spot in an otherwise stressful time.
“After Fulbright Canada informed me that I had been named a Killam Fellow, I immediately called my grandparents to share the news. It was definitely something inspiring for them and it interrupted the mundanity of the pandemic.”
The Killam Fellowships Program provides a cash award of $5,000 U.S. per semester, a three-day orientation in Ottawa, which was online this year, and a three-day spring seminar in Washington.
“Tiana represents the very best York has to offer,” said LA&PS Dean J.J. McMurtry. “We are exceptionally proud that she will be representing 첥Ƶ and the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies on the international stage.”
Putric will be graduating this spring with a bachelor of disaster & emergency management specialized honours degree and is considering several career options, including graduate school.