The Schulich Excellence Fund is critical in:

• Providing scholarships, bursaries, research awards, lecture series and hosting symposia
• Supporting our researchers, scientists and clinicians through equipment needs, facilities development, professorships and fellowships.
• Enhancing our ability to capitalize on government funding opportunities that require us to fulfill a certain financial commitment before receiving matching funds.
• Providing the flexibility to adapt and respond to opportunities as they arise.

Your gift to The Schulich Excellence Fund will help ensure we maintain our leadership position in the training of the next generation of physicians, dentists and health researchers and achieve our vision of leading advancements in lifelong health.

You can create your own named scholarship, bursary or award or contribute to the student support through the Schulich Excellence Fund, which allows the School to serve the areas of the highest priority, including providing need-based and merit scholarships for deserving students.

Our research philosophy is to bring medical discoveries and new technologies to clinical trial, market and, ultimately, to patients – faster. One way we do this is by taking an interdisciplinary approach to research. We have physicians, physicists, biologists and engineers all working under one roof, with collaborations extending to 20 countries worldwide. This approach is unique in Canada, and so are our results.

With your investment in the ground-breaking research at Robarts Research Institute, we can better understand cancer, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and provide more accurate diagnosis and precise treatments.

We are working hard to find the answers to life’s health challenges, but we can’t do it alone. We need your help to change lives.

It is a common misconception that all Indigenous students get free education. Canada’s Indigenous population is one of the youngest and fastest growing in the country, with nearly 310,000 youth between the ages of 15-25. Government funding provides support for approximately 23,000 Canadian Indigenous students spread across all disciplines in postsecondary education. This is simply not enough support. In the last three years alone, Western’s Tribal Council turned away close to 550 Indigenous students across all faculties due to lack of government funding.

The Schulich Indigenous Scholarship Fund will create new endowed scholarships with the goal of covering the full cost of tuition for four Indigenous undergraduate medical or dental students, one student in each year of the four-year program.

Today, we are seeking your financial support to help respond to this critical and time sensitive need. We must – and can – do better and the time is now.