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Travel Grant Winner for Montreal 2026 Meeting
The EIR is please to announce the winner of the 2026 travel grant.
Tian Qin is a Ph.D. student currently based at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Tian is presenting on the Qi-monism of Wang Fuzhi, considered as a pre-modern approach to the relationship between science and religion, and he'll receive 300 dollars from the AAR-EIR to use toward his expenses. Happy to have you here, Tian!