SFU Graduate Studies

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SFU graduate students are invited to share their climate change-related research at the Sustainability Festival which will be held at SFU on September 20, 2011. The festival is co-sponsored by the Sustainable SFU, Faculty of Environment, SFU Sustainability and Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions.

The poster session is an excellent opportunity for graduate students to share their research with the SFU community. More details are available on the sustainability_poster guidelines (PDF).

Research areas can cover but are not limited to:

• sustainable communities
• low carbon emissions economy
• resilient ecosystems
• social mobilization
• health and climate change
• effects of climate change on ecosystems
• mitigation and adaptation measures

There is a prize of $200 $300 for the best poster, as adjudicated by a panel of faculty members. For further information contact Nastenka Calle, PICS-SFU Coordinator at n_calle@sfu.ca

Submission deadline: August 20, 2011 September 6, 2011.

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SFU’s Faculty of Environment has just posted a call for collaborative courses or activities that “enhance teaching and associated environmental education in the broadly defined area of environment.”

Projects must:

• involve tenured/tenured-track faculty or lecturers individually or in teams (may include staff)
• focus on the broadly defined area of environment including humanities, social sciences and natural sciences as well as sustainability
• support teaching or associated activities at either the undergraduate or graduate levels
• involve collaboration with FENV or FENV collaboration with other Faculties

Funding can include graduate student support and faculty buy-out/overload, and projects can be single-term or extended over multiple terms.

Projects will be accepted each term. The first proposal deadline is July 14, 2011. For more information, contact Dan Burns in FENV at dburns@sfu.ca or 778-782-9225.

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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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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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SFU’s graduate students and faculty member Ken Lertzman were mentioned in the Queen Charlotte Islands Observer as they finished up their three-week field course in Haida Gwaii. The paper noted that the group of sixteen students worked on “projects as far ranging as the growth patterns of monumental cedars to tourist profiles of hikers and Haida Gwaii visitors.”

Their work there was in collaboration with the Haida Gwaii Higher Education Society.

For more information on the field study, contact Dr. Ken Lertzman in the School of Resource and Environmental Management.

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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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Congratulations to Brent Loken, who was recently awarded both the Trudeau Doctoral Scholarship and Vanier Canada Graduate PhD Scholarship to pursue his research in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University.

Brent has lived and worked overseas since 1994 in countries such as Syria, Pakistan, Bolivia, Tanzania, Taiwan and Indonesia. Recently, Brent founded an NGO, Ethical Expeditions, that is working in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo with the indigenous Wehea Dayak community to help build a sustainable social-ecological system.

This summer, Brent is in Borneo leading a biodiversity study of the unexplored 38,000 hectare Wehea Forest and assisting with an ethnoecological study with the Wehea Dayak community. Both studies are part of a resilience analysis of the Wehea social-ecological system. He is also leading a group of 12 university students from across North America on a field school in Wehea.

Brent’s PhD research will investigate the resilience and sustainability of social-ecological systems in Borneo. He is interested in the configuration of variables or factors that lead to sustainable resource use. To that end, he is examining factors such as governance, ecology, culture and policies using Elinor Ostrom’s social-ecological systems framework as a guide and tools such as social-network analysis.

Additionally, he will investigate how REDD+ (reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation) is impacting and may continue to impact local communities who are implementing this program to help protect their forests.

• Ethical Expeditions
• Youtube: Ethical Expedition’s videos from Wehea, Borneo
• Resilience Alliance
• SFU School of Resource and Environmental Management
• Brent Loken’s biography on the Trudeau Scholarships website
• Vancouver Sun: Three local students awarded $180,000 scholarships from the Trudeau Foundation
• SFU press release: SFU student research scores Trudeau Scholarships

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We’re pleased to announce the creation of two new private awards for SFU’s graduate students:

The University Women’s Club of Vancouver Annual Graduate Award in Business (PDF), provides financial support for female students who are pursuing, or intend to pursue a graduate degree in which women are under-represented in the Segal Graduate School of Business, Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University. Nominations are made by the Associate Dean of the Beedie School of Business, and are due by June 30.

The Canadian Pacific/Teck Resources Award for Environmental Innovation (PDF) is to support graduate students in the Faculty of Environment who are pursuing or intend to pursue research that focuses on finding innovative solutions/approaches to environmental challenges and sustainability. Nominations are made by the Dean, Faculty of Environment, and are due by October 30.

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Applications are now open for the 2012-13 International Fulbright award in Science and Technology. The award includes tuition at a top US university for three years, a monthly stipend, travel support, and many other benefits.

Applicants must be Canadian citizens planning to complete a PhD in science or technology. More information for Canadians is available at the Fulbright Canada website. More information on the award is available through the Fulbright Science and Technology Awards website.

Apply online at the Foreign Fulbright Program application page. Application deadline: May 31, 2011.

• Full list of Fulbright awards for Canadian Master’s students
• Full list of awards for Canadian PhDs

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The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) has released its annual call for applications for PICS Graduate Fellowships.

Fellowships are available to outstanding Masters and PhD students at SFU, UBC, UNBC and UVic who are conducting research in an area related to climate change impacts and adaptation. Previous SFU recipients have come from the School of Resource and Environmental Management (REM) and the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT).

Fellowships are valued at $12,000 per year for Master’s and $18,000 per year for PhD students.

Application deadline is March 21.

All applications should be sent to picsra@uvic.ca with the subject line “PICS Graduate Fellowship Application”.

For more information about the fellowships, please contact Nastenka Calle, PICS-SFU Coordinator, at n_calle@sfu.ca.

Application form: http://www.pics.uvic.ca/fellowships.php

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