Stewart PAULSON Memorial Scholarship in Land and Food Systems

Award descriptionA $2,000 scholarship has been made available annually through gifts from family and friends in memory of Stewart Paulson (1945-2020) for outstanding graduate students in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems whose theses focus on (1) sustainable poultry production or marketing or (2) sustainable animal production or marketing. Stewart (B.Sc. (Agr) 1968, M.Sc. 1970) began his career at the Poultry Division of the Department of Agriculture in Ottawa, Ontario. After completing his graduate education at the University of California, Davis. He then worked as an industrial market researcher before returning to government work, joining the BC Ministry of Agriculture as a Poultry Industry Specialist. Stewart served as a liaison between the provincial government, UBC and the poultry industry in British Columbia, and played an integral role in the establishment of the BC Sustainable Poultry Farming Group and the UBC Specialty Birds Research Fund. Later in his career, he developed a biosecurity and insurance policy for the industry to implement to help lessen the impact of future outbreaks of avian influenza or other epidemics. The scholarships are made on the recommendation of the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, in consultation with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.