BGSA General Meeting
Hello all!
On Tuesday, October 4th, the BGSA General Meeting will be taking place in W4/12 in Stewart Biology at 4pm. The meeting will last about an hour and there will be refreshments…
Come find out about all the fun and informative activities we will be facilitating this year and how you can contribute!
Check your email for the agenda!
Cheers
BGSA
Contact Information for Grant Proposals
Dear BGSA Students,
We are working on getting you the most up to date information, so keep an eye out on the ListServ for more information, but for the moment, here is some contact information for NSERC and some general information for FQRNT and CIHR.
FOR NSERC
Deadline to submit application to department is Sept 21!!
The government website http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/PG-CS/index_eng.asp
The GPS http://www.mcgill.ca/gps/students/fellowships/nserc
The Mcgill Bio page
http://biology.mcgill.ca/grad/grad_gen_awards&scholarsh.html
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Person to submit COMPLETE application to
Maria Colonna
Person to list for transcript requests
awards.biology@mcgill.ca
If a name is required, put Dr. Laura Nilson
NSERC Online Application Help
wepapp@nserc-crsng.gc.ca
(613) 995-4273 (this info is from 2010)
Include your email and telephone number
FQRNT
If you plan on applying for an FQRNT, the application is through the agency
itself, NOT through McGill. You will complete your application and submit
supporting documents directly to FQRNT.
FQRNT application deadline is October 5th. http://www.fqrnt.gouv.qc.ca/en/bourses/index.htm
CIHR
According to the GPS office, if you are applying for a CIHR masters, you apply
through McGill. If you are applying for a CIHR Doctoral award, applications
are done directly through the agency.
http://www.mcgill.ca/gps/students/fellowships/cihr
Master’s deadline is OCTOBER 27, 2011. Doctoral deadline, please see the CIHR
website:
http://www.cihr.ca/
Keep an eye out on the ListServ for more information.
Vanier
If you would like to apply for a Vanier, you will fill out the required
application form and compile necessary supporting documents and that will be
submitted to the Biology Department. The Biology Department then ranks the
applicants and recommends the top ranked students to the university. We are
working to find out when the deadline is. this post will be updated as soon as
we know. You will have to fill out the entire application on Research Net. For
more information:
Information from McGill: http://www.mcgill.ca/gps/students/fellowships/vanier
The Vanier website: http://www.vanier.gc.ca/
Departmental deadline for the Vanier application submission is September 26th!!!
Good luck!
The BGSA
NSERC Info Session, Biology Department
Here are the slides for from the information session on applying for an NSERC.
Good luck!