Parisa Bastani (BASc’09, MECH) has been awarded the Commonwealth Doctoral Scholarship from the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP), an international program in which member governments offer scholarships and fellowships to citizens of other Commonwealth countries. She is one of two recipients of the scholarship this year; candidates are selected from seventeen Commonwealth countries.
Bastani is currently studying Engineering and Public Policy jointly at Cambridge University and MIT. While attending UBC, she was the Formula SAE team leader and the Engineering Student Team Council Chair. She also participated in numerous activities such as peer mentoring and sitting on various academic and extracurricular advisory committees. Since her first year at UBC, she was consistently listed on the Dean’s Honour list and in 2009 was named a Wesbrook scholar, UBC’s most prestigious student designation. Shortly after graduating in 2009, she received UBC’s Outstanding Future Alumnus Award at the 15th annual UBC Alumni Achievement Awards Gala.
The CSFP was established at the first Commonwealth education conference in 1959 and is reviewed by education ministers at their triennial meetings – the only scholarship scheme in the world to receive such high-level recognition. For more information on CSFP, visit: