Sauvé community mourns Professor Roderick Macdonald

The entire Sauvé community is deeply saddened by the death of Professor Roderick Macdonald, valued  friend and supporter of the Sauvé Scholars Program, and academic mentor to Éloge Butera (2009-10)  and Maria Lisitsyna (2006-07). The eloquent tribute...

Megan Bradley returns to McGill and Montreal

Sauvé Fellow Megan Bradley (Sauvé Scholar 2008-09) is returning on August 1st to Montreal and to McGill where she takes up her joint appointment to the Department of Political Science and the Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID). ...

Manish Thapa’s book on India published

Congratulations to Sauvé Fellow Manish Thapa (Sauvé Scholar 2006-07) on the publication of India in the Contemporary World: Polity, Economy and International Relations which he co-edited According to the publisher’s note: “This book brings t...

Launching Jeanne Sauvé Public Leadership Program

The Jeanne Sauvé Foundation is proud to announce that it is accepting applications to its new 2015-17 Jeanne Sauvé Public Leadership Program. Applications will be considered starting Tuesday 1 July 2014. The deadline for submission of completed Applicat...

Ion Valaskakis publishes The Magnificent Mistake

Congratulations to Sauvé Scholars Foundation Director (and previous interim ED of the Sauvé Scholars Program) Ion Valaskakis  who has just published his first book, The Magnificent Mistake: How you can earn more from failure than you learn from success...

Jeeshan Chowdhury’s ListRunner app

Kudos to  Sauvé Fellow (2011-12) Jeeshan Chowdhury who maintains his reputation as a master multitasker with a new app designed by Jeeshan and his colleagues, engineer Dominic Savoie and Dr. Trevor Chan. Where does Jeeshan find the time? Tech Crunch.com...

Manish Thapa writing on Nepal published in new book

Manish Thapa (Sauvé Scholar 2006-07) is very pleased that his chapter on “Nepal’s Maoists: Violent Revolution and Non-Violent Political Activism”  is included in Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation Transitions from armed to nonvio...

Girls’ education and cultural values

In Global Education: Leave No One Behind published on Devex, Laura Henderson, director of education policy at Women Thrive Worldwide notes the impressive progress that has been made to educate more children. At the same time, she draws attention to the cu...

How would you reinvent foreign aid?

Would you like to influence profound changes in the philosophy guiding  and the delivery of development assistance? Share your proposals with the powerful partnership of The Global Development Network (GDN) and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Sauvé...

Megan Carroll named White House Fellow

Congratulations and warmest wishes for continuing success to Megan Carroll (2009-10) on being selected a White House Fellow Class of 2014-2015! Selection as a White House Fellow is highly competitive and based on a record of professional achievement, evid...

Routledge publishes Idowu Ajibade and Damilola Olawuyi

Jeanne Sauvé Fellows Idowu Ajibade (2008-09) and Damilola Olawuyi (2010-11),  have contributed to the just-published Adaptation to Climate Change through Water Resources Management — Capacity, Equity and Sustainability (2014). Jola and Dami are t...

Anita Nowak responds to the ALS Challenge

Ever creative, Sauvé Senior Fellow Anita Nowak, offered a new response to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge – just what we have all come to expect from our favourite professor of  Social Entrepreneurship & Social Innovation. No surprise! I’ve been ic...