-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Now Accepting Applications for the Willy Wiebe Graduate Fellowship 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 16^th , 2012. All applications are to be submitted to Room 160 Agriculture Building Attention Wendy Kramer.

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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

Wendy_Kramer@umanitoba.ca

www.umanitoba.ca/afs

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*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.