{"id":41701,"date":"2016-10-25T09:47:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T13:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=41701"},"modified":"2018-05-24T16:18:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T20:18:42","slug":"brock-university-selected-for-student-gis-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/10\/brock-university-selected-for-student-gis-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock University selected for student GIS Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The James A. Gibson Library and the Department of Geography &amp; Tourism Studies have\u00a0announced that Brock University is one of a select group of universities and colleges in Canada recognized for its strong, multidisciplinary focus on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) by Esri Canada.<\/p>\n<p>For the sixth consecutive year, Brock University has been selected to participate in the Esri Canada $1,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/ecce.esri.ca\/scholarships\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GIS Student Scholarship Program<\/a>.\u00a0This Scholarship is meant to help support a Brock undergraduate or graduate student who is currently enrolled, dedicated and high achieving to continue his\/her studies in GIS and consider it as a post-graduation career option.<\/p>\n<p>Students interested in applying should visit the following <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/departments-and-centres\/geography\/awards-scholarships-bursaries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>\u00a0for guidelines, the application process, project content, deliverables and the recipient\u2019s responsibilities to Esri. The intent to participate and project outlines are due by Nov. 11.<\/p>\n<p>Students will be competing for the scholarship by presenting their proposals on Thursday, Nov. 17, between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. in the MDG Library (MC C306). Everyone is welcome to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The James A. Gibson Library and the Department of Geography &#038; Tourism Studies have announced that Brock University is one of a select group of universities and colleges in Canada recognized for its strong, multidisciplinary focus on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) by Esri Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[2701,4591,1447,4592,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41701"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51201,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41701\/revisions\/51201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}