{"id":5103,"date":"2010-09-17T10:32:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T15:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=5103"},"modified":"2010-09-17T10:32:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T15:32:52","slug":"external-scholarship-season-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/09\/external-scholarship-season-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"External scholarship season underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Master\u2019s and PhD students, as well as undergraduate students planning to move on to graduate school, are entering a busy application period for 2011 external graduate scholarship competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The major funding agencies \u2014 SSHRC, NSERC, CIHR, OGS and OGSST \u2014 annually award millions of dollars in funding packages based on the calibre of a student\u2019s research and scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>Brock\u2019s undergraduate and graduate students have been very successful in the past. In 2010, graduate students at Brock received a combined total of more than $2.5 million in national and provincial awards and scholarships. The awards ranged in value from $15,000 to $50,000 per year.<\/p>\n<p>To help inform students of the scholarship opportunities, the Faculty of Graduate Studies is holding a series of information workshops. The remaining dates for workshops are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>NSERC Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council<br \/>\n<\/strong>Award value $17,300-$50,000<br \/>\nMonday, Sept. 20, 1 to 2 p.m., Pond Inlet or<br \/>\nFriday, Sept. 24, 6 to 7 p.m., Pond Inlet<\/p>\n<p><strong>SSHRC Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council<br \/>\n<\/strong>Award value $17,500-$50,000<br \/>\nMonday, Sept. 27, 10 to 11 a.m., Pond Inlet or<br \/>\nThursday, Oct. 7, 5 to 6 p.m., Pond Inlet<\/p>\n<p><strong>CIHR Canadian Institutes of Health Research<br \/>\n<\/strong>Award value $17,500<br \/>\nThursday, Sept. 23, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., Welch Hall 147 (This presentation features a CIHR webinar)<\/p>\n<p><strong>OGS Ontario Graduate Scholarship<br \/>\n<\/strong>Award value $15,000<br \/>\nMonday, Sept. 20, 10 to 11 a.m., Pond Inlet or<br \/>\nFriday, Sept. 24, 5 to 6 p.m., Pond Inlet<\/p>\n<p>For information, contact Joanne Kremble, graduate funding and awards officer, at 905-688-5550 x5207 or <a href=\"mailto:jkremble@brocku.ca\">jkremble@brocku.ca<\/a>, or visit <a href=\"..\/..\/graduate-studies\/current-students\/financial-information\">external financial support<\/a> at the Faculty of Graduate Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upcoming sessions will help graduate students apply for grants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[3330],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103"}],"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=5103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5105,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions\/5105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}