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Payette Sho-Ping Chin Memorial Academic Scholarship Payette is pleased to announce the launch of the Sho-Ping Chin Memorial Academic Scholarship, available through the AIA Foundation and funded by the firm. The program honors the memory of long-time Payette principal Sho-Ping Chin, who passed away in 2015. Sho-Ping was a leader within the AIA, specialized in healthcare architecture and was committed to the advancement of women in design. She was a talented and compassionate architect who was fiercely determined to design healthcare architecture of the highest caliber for those in need. In no place is this better demonstrated than her selfless and steadfast commitment to bring state-of-theart healthcare to Haiti. It is our hope that one of her final projects, the Maternity Ward and Neonatal Care Unit at L’Hôpital de St. Boniface Hospital, will have lasting impact. In addition to her work on the Maternity Ward, Sho-Ping was a founding member of Sustainable Healthcare for Haiti, an organization that plans to name its first healthcare facility after Sho-Ping. Sho-Ping was a wonderful mentor and instilled in her teams a sense of camaraderie and commitment to design. As a founder of the AIA Women's Leadership Summit, Sho-Ping was instrumental in defining the national discourse for Women in Design. This scholarship is the first AIA Foundation scholarship named after a woman architect and open only to women architects. The scholarship ($10,000) will be awarded annually. Students entering at least their third year of undergraduate or any level of graduate study within an accredited architecture program are eligible to apply. Previous scholarship recipients are eligible to reapply. Recipients will be assigned a senior mentor from Payette to help establish contacts within the profession throughout the scholarship year.
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