{"id":10509,"date":"2014-08-20T20:55:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T00:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/history\/?p=10509"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:54:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:54:23","slug":"doctoral-student-wins-vanier-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2014\/doctoral-student-wins-vanier-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctoral student Melissa Armstrong wins Vanier Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Doctoral student Melissa Armstrong wins Vanier Award\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>History PhD student, Melissa Armstrong, has won a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship worth $50,000 per year for three years. &nbsp;She will use her funding to &nbsp;travel to South Africa to pursue research into the genesis and growth of the health department of the African National Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armstrong came to Carleton to study with Professor Susanne Klausen, an expert in South African medical history, and to benefit from networks and contacts in Carleton&#8217;s Institute of African Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full story please go to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/2014\/two-carleton-phd-students-excel-vanier-awards-competition\/\">http:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/2014\/two-carleton-phd-students-excel-vanier-awards-competition\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History PhD student, Melissa Armstrong, has won a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship worth $50,000 per year for three years. &nbsp;She will use her funding to &nbsp;travel to South Africa to pursue research into the genesis and growth of the health department of the African National Congress. Armstrong came to Carleton to study with Professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,22],"class_list":["post-10509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-award","tag-graduate"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10548,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10509\/revisions\/10548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}