SFU Graduate Studies

The Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies will be presenting two scholarship writing workshops this August for SFU graduate students who would like to apply to the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (for PhD students) or the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (or any other postdoctoral fellowship).

Topics that will be covered:

Graduate students are invited to form a team of three or more to create a graduate school project around Singapore’s economic activities.

The award is for up to US $10,000 and includes a trip to Singapore for the graduate student team.

The program is open to graduate students of all disciplines, including arts, business, engineering, humanities and sciences. Participants should be graduate students with at least two years of working experience and ideally the project has relevance to their current research interests. Projects may take multiple forms, including research papers, presentations or even presented in alternative media.

The application deadline for the next round of awards is October 31, 2011. For more information, email  singapore@contactsingapore.sg with the subject line “Re: GSP 2011”.

• Graduate School Projects@Singapore
• Project proposal form
• See also: SFU MBAs head to Singapore

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SFU’s Beedie School of Business reports that MBA graduate business students (L to R, above) Kathleen Williams, Peter Konefal, Eva Tidlund and Connie Chang were selected from a global field in the Graduate School Projects@Singapore competition. The team’s faculty adviser is David Hannah (right), Academic Director of the MBA program.

Their project proposal, which has now been accepted by Contact Singapore, an alliance of the Singapore Economic Development Board and Ministry of Manpower, is focused on integrating corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental standards in Singapore’s booming hotel industry.

This is the first time a Canada-based team has been selected in the program.

• Vancouver Sun: SFU students land Singapore study
• Beedie School: MBAs push Singapore hotels to go green with winning business pitch
• Graduate School Projects@Singapore competition (next application deadline: October 31, 2011)

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President Andrew Petter, on behalf of SFU, has just signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the China Scholarship Council which will enable top Chinese graduate students to receive scholarship funding to attend SFU.

The number of SFU graduate students from China has grown from 79 in 2001 to 238 in 2010. Of those 238, 64 are in the Applied Sciences, 54 are in Business, 47 are in Science and 45 are in Education, with the rest in SFU’s other Faculties.

SFU’s School of Computing Science has both a Master’s and a PhD dual degree program in partnership with Zhejiang University (ZU), China.

• SFU Press release: SFU becomes a preferred destination for Chinese graduate students

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The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) has opened the 2011 Canada-Latin America and the Caribbean Research Exchange Grants (LACREG) program, funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

Projects must address one or more of the Centre’s following research themes:

• agriculture and the environment
• science, technology, and innovation
• social and economic policy
• health and health systems

The LACREG program applies to collaborative research between Canada and the following LAC countries: Argentina, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago , Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Value: Support through this program will be cost-shared on a 2:1 ratio by the program and the partner institutions, respectively. The maximum value of each grant under this program will be $15,000 CDN.

Download the application guidelines and forms. Applications are due by Thursday, October 6, 2011.

For additional information please email lac@aucc.ca

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Dr. Colin Campbell (PhD ‘11), robed in red, led the graduands for today’s SFU’s convocation ceremony for students from the Beedie School of Business.

He also received a Dean of Graduate Studies Convocation Medal for his high grade point average, which placed him in the top five per cent of his class. His thesis was Consumer motivations for creating and consumer responses to consumer generated advertising.

If you’d like to see the rest of this week’s convocations from your computer, they’ll be broadcast online through this page. (Tip: Sarah McLachlan will be performing three songs at Wednesday morning’s convocation.)

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Congratulations to the recipients of the first round of professional development grants awarded by SFU’s Graduate Student Society.

• Sarah Carr‐Locke, Archaeology
• Csilla Egri, Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology
• Ben Gehrels, English
• Jasmine Kastner, Health Sciences
• Helen Lalancette, Education
• Erica Olson, REM
• Kirk Plangger, Business
• Masha Tkatchouk, Criminology
• Cheng Zhang, Engineering

Students each received $500 to support their conference and research travel. See full press release.

SFU graduate students who are planning to travel for conferences or research between September 1 through December 31, 2011 are invited to apply for the next round of awards. For more information, see www.sfugradsociety.ca or email Sarah Chown, GSS Professional Development Coordinator, prof‐dev@sfugradsociety.ca.

Application deadline: August 2, 2011.

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Congratulations to this year’s Convocation Medal Winners who will receive their awards at our Spring Convocation, June 14–17, 2011.

Governor General’s Gold Medals
The Governor General’s Gold Medals are awarded to the two SFU graduate students who achieve the highest academic standing upon graduation from a master’s or doctoral degree program.

• Jesse Cale, PhD, School of Criminology. Thesis: The antisocial trajectories in youth of adult sexual aggressors of women: A developmental framework for examining offending, motivation, and risk of recidivism in adulthood
• Karel Lucien Casteels, PhD, Department of Mathematics. Thesis: The combinatorial structure of the prime spectrum of quantum matrices

Dean of Graduate Studies Convocation Medals
The Convocation Medals for graduate studies recognize graduating students from each faculty whose cumulative grade-point averages place them in the top five per cent of their class.

• Colin Campbell, PhD, Faculty of Business Administration. Thesis: Consumer motivations for creating and consumer responses to consumer generated advertising
• Stephanie Campbell, PhD, Department of Geography. Thesis: Productive consumption of the ‘livable’ neighbourhood: The case of Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC
• Angela Cescon, MPH, Faculty of Health Sciences. Thesis: In search of reason: Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) failures in the era of programmatic scale-up in Soweto, South Africa
• Caroline Greaves, PhD, Department of Psychology. Thesis: Progression towards sexual re-offence: Detailing the offence cycle and contributing factors in high-risk sexual offenders
• Hayley Jones, MA, School for International Studies. Thesis: Conditional cash transfers, labour markets, and poverty reduction: A pilot study of Brazil’s Bolsa Família
• Zaid Jumean, PhD, Department of Biological Sciences. Thesis: Communication of codling moth larvae: Identification and functional role of their aggregation pheromone
• Neil (Anil) Narine, PhD, School of Communication. Thesis: The cinematic network society: Ethical confrontations with new proximities to human suffering in the information age
• Kathryn Ricketts, PhD, Faculty of Education. Thesis: The suitcase, the map, and the compass: An expedition into embodied poetic narrative and its application toward fostering optimal learning spaces
• Kathleen Ross, EdD, Faculty of Education. Thesis: The effect of institutional merit-based aid on student aspirations, choice and participation: A mixed methods approach
• Dennis Storoshenko, PhD, Department of Linguistics. Thesis: A cross-linguistic account of reflexivity using synchronous tree adjoining grammar
• Michel Trottier-McDonald, PhD, Department of Physics. Thesis: Identifying hadronic tau decays using calorimeter topological clusters at ATLAS
• Jing Wang, PhD, School of Engineering Science. Thesis: Cooperation and joint source-channel transmission in wireless networks

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The Malaysia International Scholarship (MIS) is an initiative by the Malaysian Government to attract top students to pursue post-graduate and post-doctoral studies at twenty public and four private universities in Malaysia.

Priority fields of study include science and engineering; agriculture and fisheries; economics and Islamic finance ; information and communication technology; biotechnology; biosecurity and food safety; infrastructure and utility; environmental studies; and health (including but not limited to, nursing, medicine, clinical pharmacy).

Each scholarship consists of air tickets to Malaysia, tuition fees, monthly living allowance, annual grant for books and internal travel and more.  PhD and post-doctoral students will also receive a thesis allowance, a conference travel grant and a journal publication grant.

Applications must be submitted through the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia’s online application system. The application deadline is June 15, 2011

• Applicant Guidelines PDF
• List of Malaysian Universities PDF

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Undertake part of your postgraduate or postdoctoral research in Australia with support from the Australian government.

Applications are now being accepted to three different scholarship funds:

• Endeavour Research Fellowships provide up to AUS$23,500 for North American postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers to undertake 4-6 months of research in Australia.
• Endeavour Postgraduate Awards provide financial support of up to AUS$118,500 for Masters and AUS$228,500 for PhD for high achieving North American students to undertake a postgraduate qualification by coursework or research in any field of study in Australia.
• Endeavour Executive Awards provide up to AUS$18,500 for international applicants in business, industry, education or government to undertake 1-4 months of professional development in Australia.

Your application should be submitted through Endeavour’s online application system. The application deadline for all three awards is June 30, 2011.

• Frequently Asked Questions about the Endeavour Awards
• Online application system for the Endeavour Awards
• Applicant guidelines PDF or Applicant guidelines RTF documents
• See also: JASON Postgraduate Scholarship Database for Australia

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