Subject: | Now Accepting Applications for the Willy Wiebe Graduate Fellowship |
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Date: | Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:41:14 -0600 |
From: | Wendy Kramer <Wendy_Kramer@umanitoba.ca> |
Organization: | University of Manitoba |
To: | 'agriculture‐gradstudents@lists.uma.nitoba.ca'@cc.umanitoba.ca |
CC: | 'Martha Blouw' <Martha_Blouw@umanitoba.ca>, 'Anita Brule-Babel' <anita_brulebabel@umanitoba.ca> |
The Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
is now accepting applications for the Willy Wiebe Graduate
Fellowship. Please find attached a copy of the application form.
Below are the Terms of Reference for this Award. Deadline for
the Fellowship is January 16th, 2012. All
applications are to be submitted to Room 160 Agriculture
Building Attention Wendy Kramer.
Have a great day!
Cheers,
Wendy
Wendy Kramer, B.Sc. (Agrbus)
Academic Advisor
Diploma in Agriculture Program
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
University of Manitoba
(204) 474-6066
WILLY
WIEBE GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP IN AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD SCIENCES
Through a testamentary gift from Willy Wiebe,
a farmer from the rural municipality of Rhineland in Manitoba,
an endowment fund of $450,000 has been established at the
University of Manitoba to support a graduate fellowship in
breeding and research in Canadian Western Red Spring Wheat. The
first award will be offered in 2005.
The fellowship, valued at the available
annual income, will be offered to a student who:
(1) enrolls
as a full-time student in the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the
University of Manitoba in a Master’s or Ph.D. program in
Agricultural and Food Sciences;
(2) as a
Master’s student, achieved a minimum
cumulative grade point average of 3.5 in the last 60 credit
hours completed in their undergraduate program or, as a Ph.D.
student, achieved a minimum cumulative grade point average of
3.75 in their Master’s program;
(3) demonstrates an interest in and
potential for research;
(4) has identified an advisor in the
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences who is willing to
support a project in breeding and research in Canadian Western
Red Spring Wheat.
The fellowship cannot be
held with another award valued at or higher than the current
level of the University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship that
is offered at the recipient’s level of study (Master’s or
Ph.D. level).
Applicants will be
required to submit a completed application form on or before
the designated deadline date. Application forms will be made
available from the Office of the Dean in the Faculty of
Agricultural and Food Sciences.
The fellowship can be renewed once by the
same recipient in a Master’s program, and twice for the same
recipient in a Ph.D. program. The fellowship recipient will
receive a renewal upon receiving a satisfactory rating on their
annual progress report for the first year of the Masters program
or in the first and second year of the Ph.D. program. In years
when a renewal of the award is made, no new award will be
offered. If, in the judgment of the selection committee, no
applicants meet the award criteria in a given year, the award
will not be made in that year.
The selection committee will be the Faculty
of Agricultural and Food Sciences Awards Committee.
-- Martha Blouw, Academic Advisor Department of Plant Science 226 Agriculture Building 66 Dafoe Road University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada R3T 2N2 Telephone: 204-474-8223 Fax: 204-474-7528