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Anona Thorne and Takao Tanabe Graduate Entrance Scholarship

We are grateful for the generosity of UBC Statistics alumna Anona Thorne and her husband Takao Tanabe who established this entrance scholarship, offered annually to students entering a graduate program in Statistics.  Anona Thorne (BA '91 Mathematics; MSc '93 Statistics) is a double alumna of UBC and went on to an interesting career using her statistics training at the CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network at Saint Paul's Hospital in Vancouver. Takao Tanabe is an internationally acclaimed Canadian painter.

This award is usually announced in Fall months of Year.

Recipients

Recipient's Name Year Recipient's Category Program News Item
Yuan Xia 2021 Graduate PhD
Samuel Laferriere 2020 Graduate PhD
Vittorio Romaniello 2019 Graduate PhD Thorne–Tanabe Graduate Entrance Scholarship Recipient (2019): Vittorio Romaniello
Miguel Biron Lattes 2018 Graduate PhD
Rachel Lobay 2018 Graduate
Saifuddin Syed 2017 Graduate PhD Thorne-Tanabe Graduate Entrance Scholarship Recipients- 2017
Xin Zhao 2017 Graduate Thorne-Tanabe Graduate Entrance Scholarship Recipients- 2017
Sonja Surjanovic 2016 Graduate PhD Thorne-Tanabe Graduate Entrance Scholarship Recipients
Archer (Gong) Zhang 2016 Graduate PhD Thorne-Tanabe Graduate Entrance Scholarship Recipients