SFU Graduate Studies

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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This August, 22 Nobel Laureates and 350 young economists will meet in Lindau, Germany for the 4th Nobel Laureate Meeting in Economic Sciences.

SFU’s Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Pierre Nguimkeu, a PhD student in Economics, has been selected as a Young Researcher who will be attending this prestigious international event.

Pierre Nguimkeu is a native of Cameroon who currently works under the supervison of Dr. Pascal Lavergne. He was awarded a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship in 2010.

• “Uniform in Bandwidth Tests of Specification for Conditional Moment Restrictions Models”: Presentation to the Canadian Economics Association, May 2010
• Pierre Nguimkeu’s Facebook page
• Pierre’s Abstract for presentation to the Canadian Economics Association, June 2011
• Nobel Laureate Meetings: FAQ if you’d like to be nominated
• Nobel Laureate Meetings: Online lectures from Nobel Laureates

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Congratulations to Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, who has been appointed resident representative for Zimbabwe by the African Development Bank.

Bawumia earned a PhD in economics from SFU in 1996. He is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, and former First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana. He was also a Vice Presidential candidate in the 2008 Ghana elections.

• African Dev’t Bank appoints Dr. Bawumia as Rep. for Zimbabwe
• Wikipedia entry: Mahamudu Bawumia
• The Statesman: Who is Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia?
• Book launch announcement

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