News Releases - 2010
Canada Council for the Arts to announce half a million dollars in Killam Prizes
Watch out, Nobel: the five winners of this year’s $100,000 Killam Prizes will be announced at a news conference on Tuesday, April 13 at 10:00 a.m. at Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences in Toronto. The winners will be available for interviews following the conference.
Date: Tuesday, April 13
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences,
Auditorium
222 St. Patrick Street, Toronto
The Killam Prizes are awarded annually to distinguished Canadian scholars in the fields of health sciences, natural sciences, engineering, social sciences and humanities. One prize of $100,000 is awarded annually in each of the five fields. These prizes are Canada’s most distinguished annual awards for outstanding career achievements in these fields and are an important part of building Canada’s future through research.
Members of the media who wish to attend the news conference must RSVP by contacting April Yorke at 613‑566-4414 or 1-800-263-5588, ext. 4133 or via email.
The names of the winners, along with winner’s biographies and downloadable images, will also be posted on the Canada Council website at 10:30 a.m. on April 13.
Killam Prizes
The Killam Prizes were inaugurated in 1981 and financed through funds donated to the Canada Council by Mrs. Dorothy J. Killam in memory of her husband, Izaak Walton Killam. The Prizes were created to honour eminent Canadian scholars and scientists actively engaged in research, whether in industry, government agencies or universities. When the Canada Council was created in 1957, its mandate was to support both the arts and scholarly research; although this changed with the creation of separate research councils, the Canada Council retained responsibility for the Killam program. The Killam Fund at the Canada Council was valued at approximately $46.6 million as of March 31, 2009. The Killam Trusts, which fund scholarship and research at four Canadian universities, a research institute and the Canada Council, are valued at approximately $400 million.