Joseph Schull, BAβ82, MAβ85, and Anna Yang, BCLβ88, LLBβ88, experienced the life-changing impact of international study firsthand. As students at ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ, they both benefitted from financial awards that enabled them to further their studies abroad. Schull, a Guy Drummond Scholar, spent a year at theΒ Institut dβEtudes Politiques de ParisΒ β an experience that motivated him to pursue an advanced degree at Oxford University. Yang, meanwhile, received the Macdonald Travelling Scholarship upon graduating from the Faculty of Law, which enabled her to obtain a Masterβs in International Law from theΒ UniversitΓ© de Paris II.
To ensure that todayβs ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ students can enjoy the same exceptional opportunities that they did, the couple has given back generously to ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ to support a wide range of international study and research projects through the establishment of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ International Experience Awards.
βThe experience of studying abroad was transformative for us and opened a new world of ideas and possibilities,β says Schull, who is now based in London, where he works in international finance.
Yang, who after graduation clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada adds: βΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ provided us with a great educational foundation and a passport to the world outside. We want to ensure that ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ can continue to provide such opportunities to many more students in perpetuity.β