NOTE: please notify Lia (lia.maria@ubc.ca) about your intention of applying ASAP but not later than Friday, November 22nd.

You may consider working on your CGS-M or Affiliated Fellowship application with your supervisor. Or at least have it reviewed by your supervisor before submit it. Once submitted, no corrections/updates would be possible. 

Please review the eligibility criteria, make sure you meet the requirements and have achieved a first-class average in EACH of the last two completed years of study (full-time equivalent) before submitting an application.

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UBC Affiliated Fellowships-Master’s

The UBC Affiliated Fellowships Master’s competition runs in concert with the Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s (CGS-M; see below) competition. Approximately 50 fellowship with values ranging from $175 to $16,000 are offered through this competition. Current and prospective full-time UBC graduate students can apply regardless of citizenship or visa status. Students who are eligible for CGS-M must submit a CGS-M application instead.

Detailed Affiliated Fellowships-Master competition information with links to application and reference forms is available at: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/affiliated-fellowships-masters-program

Tri-Agency Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s (NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR)

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) – Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) – Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) – Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships

General Guidelines for the Eligibility of Subject Matter

• SSHRC
• NSERC
• CIHR

Applicants for Tri-Agency CGS-M competition must be domestic students (citizen or PR) who are applying for or enrolled in graduate studies anywhere in Canada. Each applicant can apply to up to 3 universities with the same application. To be considered for a CGS-M at UBC, they must select The University of British Columbia as one of the 3 available institutions.

Details about this award opportunity, including eligibility and evaluation criteria, are available at http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/PG-CS/CGSM-BESCM_eng.asp and our site at https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/canada-graduate-scholarships-masters-cgs-m-program

Students who apply for CGS-M awards will automatically be considered for open Affiliated Fellowships. To be considered for criteria-based affiliated fellowship, students should fill out and submit to their graduate programs the checklist available at https://www.grad.ubc.ca/forms/list-criteria-based-affiliated-fellowships

UBC Deadlines for the Tri-Agency CGS-M / Affiliated Fellowships Master’s Competitions

Applicant deadline: 5 PM on Monday, 2 December 2019
Graduate program deadline:  4 PM on Friday, 31 January 2019

• Stress the importance of the deadline – CGSM applications cannot be submitted or edited after the application deadline. The portal has crashed around the deadline a couple of years ago because too many students were submitting at the last minute. Submitting earlier (even on the day) will help.
• Ask for reference letters early and send the instructions to your referees http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ResearchPortal-PortailDeRecherche/Instructions-Instructions/CGSM_REF-BESCM_REF_eng.asp
• Order official transcripts for all previous studies (including transfer credits). If the official transcripts you have on file are up to date, I can provide you a PDF copy upon request. Note that UBC transcripts are required for students who had any studies at UBC before 2 December 2019, including September 2019 starts.
• Grad Studies will accept printouts of Academic History from SISC in place of official UBC transcripts
• They cannot accept any other unofficial transcripts
• Note that the SISC academic history may not be accepted by other universities in Canada, so students applying elsewhere should order UBC transcripts

It would help us greatly if applicants used the same email as their portal login as in eVision or SIS. This is absolutely not a requirement, but it helps route the applications to correct programs quicker.

Annually, we reach out with the goal of promoting a truly practical, experiential and real-world course focused on technology entrepreneurship.

Tech Entrepreneurship (APSC541/BAEN506) has been running for over 25 years and has facilitated many entrepreneurial ventures and realized numerous successful breakout companies such as DWave, Zymeworks, and Recon Instruments – just to name a few.   This course pairs graduate business and APSC/STEM students to provide an experience-based introduction into the lean start-up process. It is a real-life simulation of the process that founders go through when starting a high-tech company. Students will be faced with the key issues involved in evaluating market opportunities, building a prototype, designing profitable business models, producing a solid business plan, raising capital, addressing legal considerations and developing a winning team. Students will gain the skills and tools to creatively commercialize high-tech research into profitable businesses. Teams will be expected to develop credible pitches that will be made to industry professionals.  Some of these student companies go on to participate in e@UBC, the Hatch and Creative Destruction Lab.

The core of the course runs on Wednesday evenings from January to April; and there are 3 critical and mandatory preliminary classes that take place in November dedicated to team formation (November 13, 20 and 27 – 6pm).  The course is taught by a team of business and STEM/APSC instructors for a well-rounded business and technical perspective.

The course has an application process for admission as it is very competitive, with deadlines and rolling admission in early August, September and November. Further details regarding the course are available at https://blogs.ubc.ca/baen506apsc541techentrepreneurship/ (please note that this URL has changed from last year).

We have had strong interest from your faculty in the past, and would greatly appreciate your support to promote the course amongst your graduate students.

To further support this message, we would be pleased to arrange an info session at a time that is convenient for your faculty – to hear from course lecturers, former students and/or now successful entrepreneurs who participated in the course.

Please let us know how we can support your promotion of this course, and feel free to contact us should you require any further information.  We will follow-up by phone in the near future.

Warmest Regards

 

DJ (David) Miller
Sauder School of Business
778.991.6602
djmiller@sauder.ubc.ca
https://www.linkedin.com/in/djmiller/

 

UBC is conducting its annual tuition consultation about proposed tuition fee increases. Learn more and join the conversation at consultations.students.ubc.ca

Registration is now open for:

Business Writing for Today’s Professional (Mitacs Training)| Wed., Oct 30 | 9 am  – 5 pm | Register here

Time Management (Mitacs Training)| Thur.,  Oct 31 | 9 am – 5 pm | Register here

 There are still seats remaining in this week’s:

Career Planning & Job Search Strategies | Tues., Oct 22 | 12 – 1:30 pm | Register here

Scholarship and Award Opportunities: CGS-M Masters (for 4^th year undergrads or 1^st year research-based Masters)| Mon., Oct 28 | In-Person: 10 am – 12 pm  | Webinar:  1:30 – 3pm

 Check out community.grad.ubc.ca for these, and other, opportunities: 

Academic Support and Success

Literature Reviews: “Analyzing (with NVivo)” | Oct 29 | 10 am – 12 pm

Introduction to “R” for statistical analysis | Oct 30 | 10 am – 12 pm

Lay Summaries: Writing Workshop | Nov 1 | 10 am – 12 pm

Applied Quantitative Methods (AQM) (yearlong workshop data science and machine learning workshop) – registration / application open now (with fees)

Career Exploration

Employers on Campus: Oct 28: Convergint Technologies  (5:30 – 7 pm) | Oct 30: PwC China & Hong Kong ( 6 – 7 pm)

Twitter: How to Win Followers and Influence People (Webinar) | Oct 30 | 11 am – 12: 30 pm

Events

Learning Analytics Hackathon (Canvas and Course Calendar data) | Nov 2 | 9: 30 am  – 5 pm

Graduate Research Foundations: Skills for Respectful Research ( Workshop Series Nov – Jan)

Please let me know if you have questions.

Thank you,
Jacqui.

Jacqui Brinkman, MSc
Director, Graduate Student Professional Development
Office of the Dean | Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueum Traditional Territory
170 – 6371 Crescent Road | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z2 Canada
Phone 604 827 4578 | Fax 604 822 5802
jacqui.brinkman@ubc.ca | @ubcgradschool
https://www.grad.ubc.ca/

 

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Graduate Research Foundations: Skills for Respectful Research (Graduate student workshop series)

This workshop series has been created by five graduate students to address a current training gap. The Graduate Skills Foundations Workshop series seeks to build the necessary knowledge, skills, and confidence to do respectful research. Respectful research is grounded in the principles of reciprocity, action, and anti-oppression. It involves questioning our own position within systems we operate in and identifying our sources of power. It is finding the confidence and skills to use this power to make real change in our research and workplaces. It means addressing. Doing respectful research requires bravery. Building from our shared experience of being in graduate school (never an easy position), we ask you to bravely step forward and attending one or more workshops to learn (and unlearn) how to be a more respectful researcher.

Some of the learning (and unlearning) will be uncomfortable as we gain awareness of our own privileges and, maybe even, previous missteps. This unsettling complexity will be supported and challenged with care, accountability and compassion acknowledging that we are all in a process. Resources and support for further exploration will be available. Please visit www.isgp.ubc.ca/respect for more information about the workshop and to register.

 

 

Google PhD Fellowship

The Google PhD Fellowship Program was created to recognize outstanding PhD graduate students doing exceptional work in computer science and related research areas. The fellowship provides full tuition and fees (enrollment fees, health insurance, books) plus a stipend to be used for living expenses, travel and personal equipment for two years, with possible extension for a third year. Recipients are also matched with a Google Research Mentor.

The application deadline for this opportunity is November 6, 2019 at 4:00 pm PST.  Note: Applicants apply directly to Graduate Awards; graduate programs do not submit nominations.

For more information, including application procedures and eligibility requirements (including eligible research areas), please see this link: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/google-phd-fellowship.