NSERC Graduate Scholarships and UBC Four-Year Fellowships The National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) awarded the 2012 Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) to Ph.D. candidate Shona Robinson, M.A.Sc. candidate Lisa Tobber, and M.A.Sc. candidate Stanley Chan; the NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS-D) was awarded to Ph.D. candidate Elnaz Amirzehni. The UBC Four Year Doctoral Fellowships (4YF), which provides financial support to outstanding Ph.D. candidates for the first four years of their doctoral studies and research, were awarded to Sina Amini Niaki, Ruslan Amarasinghe, and Saeid Allahdadian.