DEAN ROBERT HELSLEY Graduate Scholarship in Business

Award descriptionScholarships totalling $1,300 have been made available through an endowment established by colleagues in the UBC Sauder School of Business in honour of Robert Helsley, former dean of the Sauder School of Business, for outstanding Ph.D. students studying business. Dean Helsley's legacy at UBC spans over three decades, during which he served as the Senior Associate Dean, Faculty and Research, Director of the UBC Centre for Real Estate and Urban Economics, and Chair of the Urban Land Economics Division. In 2012 he became Dean of the UBC Sauder School of Business and the Grosvenor Professor of Cities, Business Economics and Public Policy. Dean Helsley helped lead the School to its current level of prominence by managing initiatives to significantly renew and expand the School's academic faculty and staff, and played a central role in the revitalization of its teaching facilities. The awards are made on the recommendation of Robert H. Lee Graduate School of Business, in consultation with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.