About

For more than 50 years, the Killam Scholarships and Fellowships have supported talented and deserving scholars in their quest for new knowledge. This critical funding enabled a broad range of leading-edge research spanning the globe shaping everything from immigration policy, to cancer treatment; world economics,to law and literature.

An elite group: Canada's Killam institutions

The bequests placed Dalhousie among an elite group. We are one of only four universities in Canada to award Killam Scholarships, alongside:

• The University of Calgary
• The University of Alberta
• The University of British Columbia
• The Montreal Neurological Institute, at McGill University

In addition to these five institutions, the Canada Council for the Arts administers the Killam Research Fellowship program as well as the Canada Council Killam Prize, worth 100,000 each and awarded annually in the fields of Engineering, Health Science, Social Science, Natural Science and the Humanities.

The Killam Trusts at Dalhousie

Since 1967, the Killam bequests have provided more than $85 million to Dalhousie University for the Killam Scholarships and Fellowships. As a result, some 1,78 Dalhousie students and postdoctoral fellows have benefitted over the past half-century from Killam Scholarships and Fellowships. 

Explore the scholarships and awards offered by the Killam Trusts at Dal