Vanier

[van-yey, van-yey, va-nyey]

noun

1. Georges P. 1888–1967, Canadian soldier and diplomat: governor-general 1959–67.

2. a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, near Ottawa, on the Ottawa River.

3. a town in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Quebec.

Example Sentences

"This technology could be helpful in rapidly limiting outbreaks ," says co-author Akansha Prasad, a Vanier Scholar and PhD student in biomedical engineering.

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"It's one thing to do research in the lab, publish papers and file patents, but it's another to have a product that's tangible -- that people can use," says the paper's lead author Shadman Khan, a PhD candidate and Vanier Scholar in Didar's lab.

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The two rounds of revelations about Jean Vanier and the L’Arche federation he founded have rocked the group to its core, all the more because L’Arche itself commissioned independent scholars to investigate after receiving a first complaint from a victim a few years before Vanier died in 2019.

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Vanier, a former Canadian and Royal Navy officer, founded L’Arche in 1964 in northern France.

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How are power and authority exercised, given the risk that Vanier’s methods trickled down to the next generation.

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