What happened: The Western University of Ontario, Canada, announced two scholarships in honor of Salman Afzaal and Madiha Salman, the couple killed along with two other family members in an attack in Ontario on June 6 in a hate-attack.
Details : The awards will help ensure people remember how Madiha Salman and her husband Salman Afzaal lived – as people who embraced inclusion, valued education and built up their community. Madiha earned her master’s in engineering at Western and was working towards her PhD in environmental engineering. The Madiha Salman Memorial Scholarship in Civil and Environmental Engineering will go each year to a full-time female graduate student enrolled in a doctoral or master’s program within the department of civil and environmental engineering, whose research is focused on environmental engineering. Western has also introduced the Salman Afzaal Memorial Scholarship in Physical Therapy, to be awarded each year to a full-time graduate student enrolled in a doctoral or master’s program in health and rehabilitation sciences. Preference will be given to a student involved in leadership, research and/or innovation in physical therapy. Salman attained his master’s at Western in 2010 and worked as a physiotherapist in long-term care homes. For more visit Propergaanda.