Bi-weekly bulletin Nov. 19, 2021

Graduate Student Tuition Payment Plan Winter 2022 Term 

Laurier provides graduate students with a unique tuition payment option designed to help alleviate the financial pressures of pursuing graduate studies. Graduate students must apply to participate in the plan on a term by term basis. Students enrolled in the plan can pay tuition fees in three (3) equal instalments applied monthly to their Laurier student account.

Enrolment for the Graduate Student Tuition Payment Plan for the Winter 2022 term opens November 29, 2021.  The deadline to complete and submit the Graduate Tuition Payment Plan Enrolment Form for consideration for the Winter 2022 term plan is December, 19 2021, by 11:59 pm (EST). Please see the payment plan web site for full details.

Scholarship Deadlines Fast Approaching

Don't forget, there are several scholarship deadlines that are quickly approaching. First year master’s students who are in year one of a two year full-time research intensive master’s program should consider applying to the Canada Graduate Scholarships Master’s (CGS M) Program to be considered for an award valued at $17,500 (per year non-renewable). This federally funded scholarship program supports research under three funding agencies; the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).  Applications to all three agencies are due by December 1st and are completed and submitted on the Tri-Council CGS M Application Research Portal. For full details, please see the CGS M Program page, hosted by NSERC.

Check out these other graduate funding and research scholarship opportunities available and get your applications in before it's too late. 

• Ontario Women’s Health Scholars Award. Due December 1, 2021
• Autism Scholars Awards. Due December 1, 2021
• Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship: Due December 21, 2021
• London Goodenough Scholarship. Due January 21, 2022
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship. Due January 31, 2022
• Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology. Due January 31, 2022 

Storytellers Challenge

On November 9, SSHRC launched its ninth annual Storytellers challenge, challenging postsecondary students to show Canadians how social sciences and humanities research affects our lives and our world for the better.

The challenge is open to all students, graduate and undergraduate, enrolled at a Canadian postsecondary institution. Their task is to tell the story, in up to three minutes or 300 words, of a SSHRC-funded research project—their own or a professor’s.

A jury will select the top 25 Finalists, who will receive a $3,000 cash prize and specialized training in research communications with their fellow Finalists from across the country. A second jury will select the Final Five winners to receive an additional $1,000 and be recognized at the 2022 virtual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. As an incentive, an additional $1,000 will be awarded to the Engagement prize winner: The Finalist who most creatively and consistently promotes their submission, the submissions of other Finalists, and the contest generally. 

Aspire Spotlight

ASPIRE is a professional skills development training program for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at Laurier. ASPIRE provides a framework to help you craft an individualized, extracurricular learning plan tailored to your professional journey and entry to the workplace. Through lectures, group work, workshops, intensive seminars and one-on-one consultations, ASPIRE supports your professional development throughout school along the way to your chosen career path.  

Upcoming Workshops

Nov. 26 

• LinkedIn for Master & PhD Students
• Finding Government Policy & its Analysis

• Finding Legislation and its Analysis 

Dec. 1

• Arts Based Research and Research Creation

Dec. 2 

• Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Grad School

• Workplace Professionalism
• End of Term Anxiety

Laura Bassi Scholarship Opportunity

The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established by Editing Press in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed, within their disciplines. The scholarships are open to every discipline and are awarded three times per year: April, August, and December.

Learn more about this initiative and the remarkable figure of Laura Bassi.

Su Morin Food Justice Scholarship Call for Submissions

Su Morin was a fearless fighter for food justice. Her boundless knowledge and generous sharing of seeds and seedlings leave a legacy in many gardens throughout Ontario and Nova Scotia. This legacy is extended through the many students who had Su as a mentor and who absorbed her contagious love for seeds and nature. Her past work with the Canadian Organic Growers and Seeds of Diversity made her known in food justice circles across Canada. More recently, Su worked with the Ecology Action Centre in Nova Scotia where she further influenced colleagues and students with her passion for community gardens, seed saving, and community food security.

In the spirit of Su, a $500 travel and research scholarship is being offered to fourth-year graduate students at Canadian institutions, for research and/or travel expenses. 

To apply for this award, submit a 250-300 word essay describing how you position yourself as a researcher, how you will use the funding, and how this work contributes to food justice. Please send your submission to Irena Knezevic (Irena.Knezevic@carleton.ca) including ‘Su Morin Food Justice Scholarship’ in the subject line. Applications will be accepted until December 15, 2021. Learn by about this scholarship by visiting the website.  

Important Upcoming Dates

• November 24: Last day to drop second 6-week course(s) without failure
• December 1: Upload vaccination status. Deadline to upload your vaccination status to the SAFEHawk app – either as fully vaccinated or as partially vaccinated with your second dose scheduled for no later than Dec. 21.
• December 2: Deregistration from in-person courses: Students who have not uploaded their vaccination status to the SAFEHawk app will be deregistered from their in-person winter term courses or prevented from registering for in-person winter term courses.
• December 15: Fall term classes end
• December 23-January 2: University Closed