{"id":11092,"date":"2024-10-23T12:43:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T19:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=11092"},"modified":"2024-10-23T12:43:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T19:43:33","slug":"competition-announcement-affiliated-fellowships-masters-and-cgs-m-competitions-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-11092","title":{"rendered":"Competition Announcement: Affiliated Fellowships-Master&#8217;s and CGS-M Competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Please notify me about your intention to apply by Nov 15, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>UBC Affiliated Fellowships-Master&#8217;s<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UBC Affiliated Fellowships Master&#8217;s competition runs in concert with the\u00a0Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master&#8217;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-Vancouver graduate students can apply.\u00a0Students who are eligible for the CGS-M must submit a CGS-M application in order to additionally be considered for Affiliated funding.<\/p>\n<p>Detailed Affiliated Fellowships-Master competition information with links to application and reference forms is\u00a0available at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/awards\/affiliated-fellowships-masters-program\"><strong>https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/awards\/affiliated-fellowships-masters-program<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tri-Agency Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master&#8217;s (CGS-M)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Applicants for Tri-Agency CGS-M competition must be domestic students (Canadian citizen or PR) who are applying for or enrolled in graduate studies anywhere in Canada. Each applicant can select 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.<\/p>\n<p>Details about this award opportunity, including <strong><u>eligibility and evaluation criteria<\/u><\/strong>, are available at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca\/Students-Etudiants\/PG-CS\/CGSM-BESCM_eng.asp\"><strong>http:\/\/www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca\/Students-Etudiants\/PG-CS\/CGSM-BESCM_eng.asp<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and our site at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/awards\/canada-graduate-scholarships-masters-cgs-m-program\"><strong>https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/awards\/canada-graduate-scholarships-masters-cgs-m-program<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Students who apply for CGS-M awards will automatically be considered for open\/un-restricted Affiliated Fellowships<\/strong>.<br \/>\nTo be additionally considered for criteria-based\/restricted Affiliated Fellowships, students should fill out and submit to\u00a0their graduate programs the checklist available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/forms\/list-criteria-based-affiliated-fellowships\"><strong>https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/forms\/list-criteria-based-affiliated-fellowships<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Deadlines for the Tri-Agency CGS-M \/ Affiliated Fellowships Master&#8217;s Competitions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Applicant deadline:\u00a0<strong>1 December 2024 before\u00a05:00 pm PT<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Graduate program nomination deadline:\u00a0 <strong>23 January 2025 at 4:00 pm PT<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Indigenous Scholars Awards and Supplements Pilot Initiative (NSERC and SSHRC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Indigenous Scholars Awards and Supplements Pilot Initiative consist of a one-year, non-renewable supplement valued at $5,000 for all meritorious Indigenous CGS M applicants and a one-year, non-renewable award valued at $27,000 for all alternate candidates, subject to the limit of available funding. If you self-identify as Indigenous you are eligible to apply for this initiative.\u00a0 Note: CIHR is not participating in this initiative.\u00a0 For more information, see the Tri-Agency&#8217;s\u00a0pilot initiative webpage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What graduate program staff can do now:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advertise the competition to your current students and to prospective students you are trying to recruit.<\/li>\n<li>Stress the importance of the application deadline.\u00a0\u00a0CGS-M applications cannot be submitted or edited after the application deadline.\u00a0 Late applications will be ruled ineligible.\u00a0 The CGS-M application deadline is set nationally by the CGS-M funding agency and is not flexible.<\/li>\n<li>Encourage students to ask for reference letters early and to send the instructions to their referees:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca\/ResearchPortal-PortailDeRecherche\/Instructions-Instructions\/CGSM_REF-BESCM_REF_eng.asp\">http:\/\/www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca\/ResearchPortal-PortailDeRecherche\/Instructions-Instructions\/CGSM_REF-BESCM_REF_eng.asp<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Encourage students to check early if they have all of their official transcripts for all previous studies (including transfer credits).\u00a0 Transcript guidance for applicants is outlined on our CGS-M webpage, and transcript guidance for graduate programs will be outlined in the Transcript Checklist-Master&#8217;s (will be posted soon).<\/li>\n<li>Note that although the Advising Transcript document (available through Workday) is accepted for UBC CGS-M applications, it may not be accepted by other universities in Canada, so students applying elsewhere for the CGSM in addition to UBC should order official UBC transcripts.<\/li>\n<li>It would help us greatly\u00a0if applicants used the same email in their CGS-M Research Portal login as\u00a0in Workday. This is absolutely not a requirement, but it helps match the applications to correct programs quicker after the application deadline.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Kind regards,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lia Maria<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Vacation alert:<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\nNov 7 to 15<br \/>\nNov 28 &amp; 29<br \/>\nDec 5 &amp; 6<br \/>\nDec 12 &amp; 13<\/p>\n<p><em>Lia Maria DRAGAN<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Admissions &amp; Administrative Coordinator<br \/>\nFaculty of Land and Food Systems<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>University of British Columbia \/<\/em> <em>Vancouver Campus<br \/>\n#291 \u2013 2357 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4<br \/>\nTel.: (604) 822-8373<br \/>\n<\/em><em><a href=\"mailto:lia.maria@ubc.ca\">lia.maria@ubc.ca<\/a> <\/em>\/<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.landfood.ubc.ca\/graduate\/\">landfood.ubc.ca\/graduate\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>On-campus schedule: 9:00 AM \u2013 5:00 PM Tuesday and Thursday<\/em><\/strong><strong><em><\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I respectfully acknowledge that I work and live on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish &amp; Tsleil-Wauthuth Nations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please notify me about your intention to apply by Nov 15, 2024 UBC Affiliated Fellowships-Master&#8217;s The UBC Affiliated Fellowships Master&#8217;s competition runs in concert with the\u00a0Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master&#8217;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-Vancouver graduate students can&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11093,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092\/revisions\/11093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}