From: Heather Wiebe Sent: March-23-17 2:14 PM To: Martha Blouw; Jennifer McLaren; Heather Innis; Kathy Graham Subject: FW: ICAN-WISE Scholarship Program 2017 - NSERC CWSE Prairies is now accepting applications from undergraduate students!

Hi, the Dean asks that the announcement below be forwarded to graduate students. Please forward 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: Lena Yusim Sent: March-23-17 10:17 AM Cc: Annemieke Farenhorst Subject: ICAN-WISE Scholarship Program 2017 - NSERC CWSE Prairies is now accepting applications from undergraduate students!

Good morning,

The ICAN-WISE scholarship program was established for the Prairie Region of Canada in 2014. The purpose of the ICAN-WISE Scholarship is to facilitate women mentee-mentor academic research collaborations in natural sciences and engineering fields. This is an initiative of Dr. Annemieke Farenhorst, Prairie NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering.

Six ICAN-WISE scholarships will be available in 2017, worth $6000 each, which are to be awarded to students that are enrolled in undergraduate programs in one of the following Prairie universities (2 awards per province):

* Manitoba (University of Manitoba, University of Winnipeg, Brandon University, University College of the North); * Saskatchewan (University of Saskatchewan, University of Regina, First Nations University of Canada); and * Alberta (University of Calgary, University of Alberta, MacEwan University, University of Lethbridge, Mount Royal University). The value of each scholarship is $6,000. The funding is the student's stipend while working with their mentor on a research project in the summer of 2017. We are seeking your assistance to forward the attached application form to female undergraduate students who can apply for the Award but also to potential female mentors who are assistant, associate or full professors. The application can also be accessed on our website at http://cwse-prairies.ca/pages/cwse_scholarships/scholarship_applications.php.

Students need to submit their application by April 24, 2017, midnight to Lena.Yusim@umanitoba.camailto:Lena.Yusim@umanitoba.ca. Each applicant will be informed on April 28, 2017 whether or not her application was successful. We are looking forward to receiving the student applications. Thank you, Kind regards

Annemieke Farenhorst NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering - Prairie Region. Professor, Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

CWSE-Prairies web-site: http://cwse-prairies.ca/ CREATE-H2O web-site: http://create-h2o.ca/

Contact address: University of Manitoba 380 Ellis Building Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2 Tel: (204) 474 6858 FAX: (204) 474 7642 E-mail: annemieke.farenhorst@umanitoba.camailto:annemieke.farenhorst@umanitoba.ca Lena Yusim, BSc CWSE/WISE Program Coordinator E1-263 EITC (Engineering Building) University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3T 5V6 T: 204-474-9556 F: 204-474-7644 E: lena.yusim@umanitoba.camailto:lena.yusim@umanitoba.ca http://cwse-prairies.ca/ http://www.wisekidneticenergy.ca/