{"id":4205,"date":"2018-02-21T16:59:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T23:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=4205"},"modified":"2018-02-21T16:59:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T23:59:51","slug":"psi-funding-opportunity-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-4205","title":{"rendered":"PSI &#8211; Funding Opportunity for Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;\">Public Scholarship Initiative Information Session \u2013 March 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, 12:00 &#8211; 2:00, Thea\u2019s Lounge<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;\">Dear Students, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;\">UBC&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/psi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #7c1f3d; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;\">Public Scholars Initiative<\/span><\/a><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;\">\u00a0will soon start accepting applications for its fourth year. A groundbreaking, award-winning scholarship program, PSI currently has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/psi\/profiles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #7c1f3d; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;\">115 scholars<\/span><\/a><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;\">\u00a0from almost all faculties across UBC. Public Scholars\u00a0enjoy (1) continuous academic support; (2) up to $20,000 financial support over 2 years and; (3) numerous professional development and networking opportunities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;\">If your work involves\u00a0<em><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">innovative forms of scholarship;\u00a0<\/span><\/em>engaging communities and other partners for a\u00a0<em><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">tangible positive social impact<\/span><\/em>; or more\u00a0<em><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">career-relevant forms of scholarship<\/span><\/em>, you may also become a UBC Public Scholar.\u00a0We would like to invite students, faculty, and staff to join us for the PSI information session\u00a0to learn more about the initiative, funding criteria and the application process.\u00a0The session will be on the <i><u>2nd of March, from 12:00 to 2:00\u00a0at Thea\u2019s Lounge<\/u><\/i> in the Graduate Student Building. Please RSVP <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_cUseiBQX0DXfylL\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;\">The 2018-19 applications for PSI will run from\u00a0<em><u><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">March 19\u00a0to May 25, 2018<\/span><\/u><\/em>. We strongly encourage all students who plan on applying to attend the information session. More information about the initiative, scholarship holders,\u00a0and the 2018\u00a0competition can be found on\u00a0the PSI Website. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;\">If you have further questions, please contact Public Scholarship Coordinator Serbulent Turan, at\u00a0<\/span><a><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #7c1f3d; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;\">serbulent.turan@ubc.ca<\/span><\/a><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Public Scholarship Initiative Information Session \u2013 March 2nd, 12:00 &#8211; 2:00, Thea\u2019s Lounge Dear Students, UBC&#8217;s\u00a0Public Scholars Initiative\u00a0will soon start accepting applications for its fourth year. A groundbreaking, award-winning scholarship program, PSI currently has 115 scholars\u00a0from almost all faculties across UBC. Public Scholars\u00a0enjoy (1) continuous academic support; (2) up to $20,000 financial support over&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-4205","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\/4205","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=4205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4206,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions\/4206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}