{"id":6019,"date":"2020-01-17T10:22:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T17:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=6019"},"modified":"2020-01-17T10:22:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T17:22:54","slug":"cags-distinguished-dissertation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-6019","title":{"rendered":"CAGS Distinguished Dissertation Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>INTERNAL Deadline \u2013 Friday, Feb 7<sup>th<\/sup>, 2020<\/p>\n<p><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CAGS \/ ProQuest\u00a0Distinguished Dissertation Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The CAGS\/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards recognize exceptional doctoral dissertations that make significant, original contributions to both the academic community and to Canadian society. There are two awards: one for engineering, medical sciences and natural sciences; and one for fine arts, humanities and social sciences.\u00a0 Awards are offered through this spring\u2019s competition for dissertations completed and accepted by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2019. The awards include a $1,500 prize, a Citation Certificate, and travel expenses of up to $1,500 to attend the 2020 CAGS 58th Annual Conference in November in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>Each UBC graduate program may nominate one dissertation to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies by\u00a0<strong>4:00pm on Friday, 21 February 2020<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For further information and nomination procedures, please visit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/awards\/cagsproquest-distinguished-dissertation-awards\">https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/awards\/cagsproquest-distinguished-dissertation-awards<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The contact at the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for this competition is Angela Rizzo (<a href=\"mailto:angela.rizzo@ubc.ca\">angela.rizzo@ubc.ca<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INTERNAL Deadline \u2013 Friday, Feb 7th, 2020 CAGS \/ ProQuest\u00a0Distinguished Dissertation Awards The CAGS\/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards recognize exceptional doctoral dissertations that make significant, original contributions to both the academic community and to Canadian society. There are two awards: one for engineering, medical sciences and natural sciences; and one for fine arts, humanities and social&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-6019","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\/6019","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=6019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6020,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019\/revisions\/6020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}