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Annual Scholarship to be Awarded in Honour of Dr. Guylene Proulx
March, 2010
Leber | Rubes is creating an annual scholarship that will be awarded to a Fire Protection Engineering Masters or PHD candidate at Carleton University in Ottawa. The annual scholarship will amount $1,000.
The scholarship will be named in honour of Dr. Guylene Proulx who passed away in December 2009 at the age of 48. She was a researcher with the National Research Council and considered by her peers to be one of the leading experts in the field of “Human Behavior in Fires.” Her credentials include involvement in the post-event investigation of many of the biggest tragedies over the past two decades including the 1993 and 2001 World Trade Centre bombings.
Since 1992, Dr. Proulx was Manager of the Human Factors project within the Fire Research Program at the Institute for Research in Construction. Her research included the investigation of human response to alarm signaling, voice communication messages, evacuation movement, typical actions taken, timing of escape, timing of evacuation and social interaction during an emergency.
Dr. Proulx was an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carleton University’s Fire Protection Engineering program. She was also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Fire Protection Engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, USA and a past President of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE)-Ottawa Chapter and on the BOD SFPE-International. Dr. Proulx was involved in the publication of over 100 research papers and was a presenter at the majority of the international conferences in her field. Dr. Proulx was named to the Order of Canada in January 2010.
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