From: Research Agriculture
Sent: March-21-17 1:35 PM
To: Martha Blouw; Jennifer McLaren; Heather Innis; Kathy Graham
Cc: Iman Yahyaie (iyahyaie@mitacs.ca); Martin Scanlon
Subject: FW: [Time Sensitive] Mitacs Canadian Science Policy Fellowship 2017 - Deadline extension to April 9 2017
Importance: High

Good afternoon, please circulate to your grad student lists.

Thanks,

Heather

Heather Wiebe

Confidential Secretary to the Associate Deans

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Ph: 204-474-6029

From: Iman Yahyaie [mailto:iyahyaie@mitacs.ca]
Sent: March-21-17 12:59 PM
To: Martin Scanlon; Research Agriculture
Subject: [Time Sensitive] Mitacs Canadian Science Policy Fellowship 2017 - Deadline extension to April 9 2017
Importance: High

Dear Martin,

Hope this message finds you well.

As you may recall from recent ORS/VPR emails, Mitacs has a call for proposals open for Canadian Science Policy Fellowships, 1-year fully-funded appointments to a Canadian government agency.   These are part of the government’s initiative for informed policy making and/or to identify potential new employees from the academic community.   They are open to:

- Faculty seeking a 1 year Sabbatical (coming up this fall)

- PhDs approximately 5 years post-graduation, i.e.:

o PhD students about to graduate

o Recent alumni

o Exceptional Masters graduate students can be considered

I wanted to let you know that the deadline for select projects has been extended to Sunday April 9^th 2017 11:59 p.m. PDT.   With this in mind, I would like your assistance in spreading the word to your faculty, soon-to-graduate PhD students, and recent alumni encouraging proposal submissions.   Taking a quick scan of the available projects, I feel that the below may be of particular relevance to your colleagues in the Faculty of Agriculture:

· Identifying agronomic opportunities for resilient agriculture in BC (Project location: Victoria, BC gov’t)

Thank you so much in advance for your support in sharing these opportunities.   If your applicants have any questions, they are welcome to reach out to me anytime at the coordinates below.

With Best Regards,

Iman

Mitacs is now accepting proposals for the following programs & initiatives:

· Mitacs is now accepting applications for staudent research travel opportunities to Brazil, China, France, India, Korea, Mexico and Tunisia!  Visit our webpage or contact us to learn more.  The deadline to apply is March 31, 2017 (5 pm PST).

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