Women to Watch

SFU PhD student awarded Wendy McDonald “Women to Watch” Diversity Award

By: Kitty Cheung, SFU Student   The Wendy McDonald Diversity Awards, hosted by the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's Women's Leadership Circle, celebrates gender and diversity in leadership. This year, an SFU engineering PhD student has won in the "Women to Watch" category.      Careesa Liu, a biomedical engineer and co-founder of the Surrey Collaborative Outreach and Research Experience (SCORE), is the 2018 recipient. She has earned the award for her research in brainwave-based technologies to assess brain function, as well as for her leadership in a healthcare training program for youth.   On women’s empowerment Named after Wendy…

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