Athabasca University 2023 Rising Star Award winner Michael Country

Dr. Michael Country (Bachelor of Science ’14) remembers sleeping on friends’ couches and paying for one Athabasca University course at a time, reading his university textbooks while walking to or from one of his jobs. 

Fifteen years later, the 2023 AU Rising Star Award recipient is a postdoctoral fellow with the Laboratory for Hibernation Biology at RIKEN, Japan’s largest comprehensive research institution. And with his experience, which includes cutting-edge research and more than a dozen academic publications, his future looks bright. 

“The only reason I’m in academia at all, the only reason I’m a scientist, is because of Athabasca University,” he said.

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