{"id":4415,"date":"2018-04-23T10:57:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T17:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=4415"},"modified":"2018-04-23T10:57:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T17:57:16","slug":"call-for-nominations-spring-graduate-awards-competition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-4415","title":{"rendered":"Call for nominations: Spring Graduate Awards Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Attention: research students (MSc and PhD)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>INTERNAL deadline \u2013 May 11, 2018 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please let me know by <strong>May 4<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong> \u00a0if you plan on applying for the Spring Graduate Awards Competition (<strong><u>MSc and PhD<\/u><\/strong>) in order for me to prepare certified true copies of your previous transcripts and\/or print UBC Academic History from the system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*********************************************************************<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/files\/2018\/04\/awards-spring-award-competition-instructions-2018.pdf\">awards-spring-award-competition-instructions-2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/files\/2018\/04\/application-2018-part-1.pdf\">application-2018-part-1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/files\/2018\/04\/awards-spring-award-competition-application-2018-part-2.pdf\">awards-spring-award-competition-application-2018-part-2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spring Graduate Awards Competition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A number of criteria-based awards for the 2018\/19 academic year are available to current and incoming graduate students. Applicants will apply via their graduate programs with a single application that may be considered for as many of the awards as they are eligible for, taking note\u00a0of the following <strong>important considerations<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Eligibility<\/strong>: To be eligible to receive funding, applicants must meet <strong>all<\/strong> the criteria for each award they apply for. Applicants must clearly address their eligibility as specifically to the award criteria as possible.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Selection<\/strong>: While award recipients will be selected based on academic merits, priority will be given to eligible candidates who do not already hold significant scholarship funding (e.g., external, 4YF, Affiliated Fellowship, etc.).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Deadline for nominations to G+PS<\/strong>: 4 p.m. on Friday, 25 May 2018. (Applicants: Please check with your graduate program for your internal deadline.)<\/p>\n<p>Please see the G+PS Awards site for the eligibility criteria and application materials: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/awards\/spring-graduate-awards-competition\">https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/awards\/spring-graduate-awards-competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kind regards,<\/p>\n<p>Lia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lia Maria Dragan<br \/>\n<\/strong>Graduate Programs Office<br \/>\nFaculty of Land and Food Systems The University of British Columbia<br \/>\n344-2357 Main Mall | Vancouver BC Canada V6T 1Z4<br \/>\nPhone 604.822.8373 | Fax 604.822.4400<br \/>\nLia.maria@ubc.ca \/ lfs.gradapp@ubc.ca <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landfood.ubc.ca\/\">www.landfood.ubc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention: research students (MSc and PhD) INTERNAL deadline \u2013 May 11, 2018 Please let me know by May 4th \u00a0if you plan on applying for the Spring Graduate Awards Competition (MSc and PhD) in order for me to prepare certified true copies of your previous transcripts and\/or print UBC Academic History from the system. *********************************************************************&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-4415","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\/4415","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=4415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4419,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions\/4419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}