Alan KRAUS Scholarship

Award descriptionScholarships totalling $4,000 have been made available through an endowment established by colleagues, students and friends of Dr. Alan Kraus in honour of his lifetime achievements both at UBC and beyond. The scholarships are awarded to doctoral students in Finance in the Sauder School of Business. Dr. Kraus was Professor Emeritus of Finance at UBC, and was an internationally renowned scholar. He received a BA and PhD from Cornell, an MBA from Stanford, and was also a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Oslo. Alan taught the Theory of Finance, the foundational course for Finance Ph.D. students at UBC for virtually his entire time at the university. His impact on the Doctoral program at UBC Finance was perhaps his greatest teaching legacy. Alan won several teaching awards, but his impact on doctoral students and the doctoral program at UBC has been much beyond the formal recognition. Alan's intellectual curiosity and thoroughness were a cornerstone of the research environment in the Sauder School of Business and remain an inspiration for his colleagues. The awards are made on the recommendation of the Sauder School of Business in consultation with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.