{"id":3231,"date":"2017-03-07T15:37:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T22:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2017-03-07T15:37:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T22:37:24","slug":"call-for-applications-2-ubc-sustainability-scholars-paid-summer-internships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-3231","title":{"rendered":"Call for Applications #2 &#8211; UBC Sustainability Scholars (paid summer internships)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The UBC Sustainability Initiative (USI) has added a number of applied research projects to our program intake this year. These projects provide graduate students opportunities to work in funded sustainability internship projects beginning early May. Current UBC graduate students from any academic discipline are eligible to apply.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Further information on the available internship projects can be found on our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/G8D41N\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;\">Student Opportunities<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"> web page. <\/span><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Applications close at midnight Sunday March 26, 2017<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">.<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">I would greatly appreciate if you would please circulate the details provided below to your grad students.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">If you have any questions about the program or projects, please don\u2019t hesitate to contact me.<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Thank you for your help in notifying your graduate students about these opportunities!<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">All the best,<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Karen Taylor\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">**********<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Call for Applications \u2013UBC Sustainability Scholars (paid summer internships)<\/span><\/span><\/b><b><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The UBC Sustainability Initiative (USI)<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">We are currently accepting applications for over 10 more UBC Sustainability Scholars projects that will commence May 1, 2017. <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Current UBC graduate students from any academic discipline are eligible to apply.<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Successful candidates will work under the guidance of a mentor, and are immersed in real world learning where they can apply their research skills and contribute to advancing organizational sustainability goals. Each Scholar receives $20 per hour to complete up to 250 hours of work.<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">For more information on the available projects and to apply, visit our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/G8D41N\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;\">Student Opportunities<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"> page.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Applications will be accepted until <\/span><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">midnight Sunday February 26, 2017.<\/span><\/b><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">We appreciate your help in circulating this notice to anyone in your grad student network who may be interested!<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Karen Taylor\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Program Manager | UBC Sustainability Initiative<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">The University of British Columbia<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Room 2346, 2260 West Mall Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Phone 604 822-9362 | <\/span><u><a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">karen.taylor@ubc.ca<\/span><\/a><\/u> <span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">| <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustain.ubc.ca\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">www.sustain.ubc.ca<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UBC Sustainability Initiative (USI) has added a number of applied research projects to our program intake this year. These projects provide graduate students opportunities to work in funded sustainability internship projects beginning early May. Current UBC graduate students from any academic discipline are eligible to apply.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Further information on the available internship projects 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-3231","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\/3231","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=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3232,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/3232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}