{"id":5281,"date":"2019-04-01T09:23:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T16:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=5281"},"modified":"2019-04-01T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T16:24:07","slug":"call-for-nominations-sumaila-volvo-graduate-prize-in-environmental-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-5281","title":{"rendered":"Call for Nominations: Sumaila-Volvo Graduate Prize In Environmental Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sumaila-Volvo Graduate Prize In Environmental Sustainability<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A $4,000 prize has been made available through an endowment established by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oceans.ubc.ca\/rashid-sumaila\/\">Dr. Rashid Sumaila<\/a>\u00a0upon being named the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.environment-prize.com\/laureates\/by-year\/2017\/rashid-sumaila\/\">2017 Volvo Environment Prize laureate<\/a>\u00a0for a Master\u2019s or Ph.D. student whose peer-reviewed publications to date are expected to have the most significant impact on the field of environmental sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>Eligibility criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nominees must be registered in a UBC-V Master\u2019s or PhD program in the 2018W session<\/li>\n<li>Preference is given to students supervised by faculty members who are affiliated with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oceans.ubc.ca\/\">Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries<\/a>; the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ires.ubc.ca\/\">Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability<\/a>; or the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sppga.ubc.ca\/\">School of Public Policy and Global Affairs<\/a>. Students who are not supervised by faculty members affiliated with these units will be considered only if there is no nomination received\u00a0from these units.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Application and nomination procedures: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/awards\/sumaila-volvo-graduate-prize-environmental-sustainability\">https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/awards\/sumaila-volvo-graduate-prize-environmental-sustainability<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deadline for nominations: <strong>Friday, 3 May 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Should you have further questions, please contact Junnie Cheung at <a href=\"mailto:junnie.cheung@ubc.ca\">junnie.cheung@ubc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sumaila-Volvo Graduate Prize In Environmental Sustainability A $4,000 prize has been made available through an endowment established by\u00a0Dr. Rashid Sumaila\u00a0upon being named the\u00a02017 Volvo Environment Prize laureate\u00a0for a Master\u2019s or Ph.D. student whose peer-reviewed publications to date are expected to have the most significant impact on the field of environmental sustainability. Eligibility criteria: Nominees must&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5281","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\/5281","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5282,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions\/5282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}