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Scholarship Links

(American) Association for Women in Science Predoctoral Awards

http://www.awis.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=338

The AWIS Educational Awards Committee offers awards for women pursuing PhDs in the STEM fields. About 5-10 AWIS graduate awards in the amount of $1,000 are given each year. The special memorial awards include the Barbara Filner Award for a student also mentoring or otherwise helping women advance in STEM fields, the Luise Meyer-Schutzmeister Award for an outstanding graduate student in physics, and the Ruth Satter Award for an outstanding graduate student who interrupted her education for at least three years to raise a family. AWIS may also give Citations of Merit ($500).

Non-U.S. citizens must be enrolled in a Ph.D. program at a university in the United States.

The four memorial awards are:

Predoctoral Award – For a female graduate student who has advanced to PhD candidacy studying in any STEM field except Physics (see below)

Schutzmeister Award – For a female predoctoral student who has advanced to PhD candidacy studying Physics. The Schutzmeister Award has a separate application process managed by Dr. Gerald Hardie at Western Michigan University. Do not use the materials on this site. To request application forms contact Dr. Hardie at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Satter Award – For a female predoctoral student who has interrupted her career for three or more years to raise a family. The Satter Award application includes an additional document provided by the applicant’s graduate department certifying that you meet the Satter criterion.

Filner Award – New this year, this award honors Barbara Filner, a long-time active AWIS member who served as President of National AWIS, and as President of the AWIS Educational Foundation for ten years. This award is given to a predoctoral student who has advanced to PhD candidacy and has participated in activities, such as mentoring and organizing workshops, that encourage women to pursue careers in science and related fields. The application process includes an additional document (up to 700 words) reviewing activities to help women achieve their career goals.

Deadline: 2012 competition to be announced by October 31, 2011

ACM’s Committee on Women in Computing Scholarships for Attendance at Research Conferences

http://women.acm.org/participate/scholarship/index.cfm

The Association for Computing Machinery’s Committee on Women in Computing (ACM-W) provides support for women students in Computer Science and related programs (at the undergraduate or graduate levels) who wish to attend research conferences. Exposure to the CS research world can be an important factor in encouraging a student to continue on to the next level (undergraduate to graduate, Masters to Ph.D., Ph.D. to an industry or academic position). The student does not have to present a paper at the conference she attends.

In cases of exceptional demonstrable interest in pursuing study and research in CS, high school students will also be considered for conference support. Twenty such scholarships, of up to $500 each, will be awarded annually.

ACM-W also encourages the student’s home department to match the scholarship award and recognize the student’s achievement locally within their department. In addition, if the award is for attendance at one of several ACM special interest group conferences (SIGCSE, SIGARCH, SIGSOFT, SIGCOMM, SIGECOM, SIGGRAPH, SIGPLAN, SIGOPS, SIGACT, SIGDA, and SIGITE) the SIG will provide complementary conference registration and a mentor at the conference.

Scholarship applications are evaluated in 6 groups each year, in order to distribute awards across a range of conferences.

Upcoming deadlines: December 15, 2011, February 15, 2012, April 15, 2012

Anita Borg Women of Vision Awards

http://anitaborg.org/initiatives/women-of-vision/

The Women of Vision Awards honour women making significant contribution to technology in three categories: Innovation, Leadership and Social Impact. Nominees are submitted by high-companies, universities and private industry and the public, with one winner selected in each category.

Deadline: December 12, 2011

Canadian Federation of University Women Memorial Fellowship

http://www.cfuw.org/guidelines_52.html

Honours those for whom the CFUW Charitable Trust receives memorial donations. It supports masters studies in science, mathematics or engineering in Canada or abroad. Value $8000

Deadline: November 1, 2011

CEMF Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Scholarship

http://www.cemf.ca/ClaudetteML.html

Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation (CEMF) invites Canadian women who are Citizens of Canada and who are perusing their studies in engineering at the Ph.D. level to apply for the annual $15,000 Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Graduate Engineering Scholarship.

Deadline: January 13, 2012

CEMF Undergraduate Engineering Scholarships for Women

http://www.cemf.ca/CEMFUg.html

Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation (CEMF) invites all young women in their first three years of engineering study to apply for a $5,000 scholarship. Five awards will be given, one in each of the following regions: British Columbia, Prairie, Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic.

Deadline: January 13, 2012

CFUW Dr. Margaret McWilliams Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

http://www.cfuw.org/guidelines_52.html

Established in 1952, to honour the first CFUW President (1919-1923), and awarded to a woman who has completed at least one calendar year in a full-time doctoral program and is enrolled in full-time studies in Canada or abroad at the time of application.

Value $11,000

Deadline: November 1, 2011

CFUW/A. Vibert Douglas Fellowship

http://www.ifuw.org/fellowships/international.htm

The International Federation of University Women (IFUW) offers a limited number of fellowships and grants to women graduates for advanced research, study, and training. The awards are intended to help finance short graduate and postgraduate study, research, and training projects, and to serve as complementary funds for longer programmes.

Fellowships are meant to encourage advanced scholarship and original research by university women. Applicants must be well started on the research programme to which the application refers. They are not normally given for a master’s or for the first year of a Ph.D. programme.

The Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) sponsors the CFUW/A.

Vibert Douglas Fellowship for use in Canada or abroad.

Competition opens in 2012.

Applicants must be members of IFUW’s national federations and associations and to IFUW International Members.

CN Scholarship for Women

Information

Scholarships are awarded annually to female students in selected community colleges and Institutes of technology across Canada.

Deadline: October 15th each year

Committee to Encourage Women in Physics

http://www.cap.ca/en/about-us/committees/cewip

Debbe Gervin Memorial Entrance Award, BCIT

A SCWIST scholarship awarded annually and includes a one-year membership in SCWIST.

A cash award available to a female applicant entering an eligible High-Tech Performance program. Selection is based upon academic standing in secondary school/post-secondary studies. Eligible programs: Network and Security Professional, Software Systems Development, Technology Support Professional.

Dr. Margaret Lowe Benston Memorial Scholarship, BCIT

A SCWIST scholarship awarded annually and includes a one-year membership in SCWIST.

A scholarship awarded to a female student who has completed one year of her two-year trade or technology diploma program. The principal consideration will be academic achievement; however, considerable weight will also be given to other evidence of promise such as prior work experience, obstacles that have been overcome and community service.

Margaret Lowe Benston (1937-1991)

As an undergraduate, Margaret Benston studied Chemistry and Philosophy. She then went on to receive her Ph.D. in theoretical Chemistry from the University of Washington and Berkley. In 1966 she arrived at SFU, where she accepted a position at the University’s Chemistry department. Benston eventually moved away from theoretical chemistry, devoting her time to women’s studies and computer science. She was an egalitarian feminist with strong beliefs that a materially sustainable society was not possible without changing how technology was developed and used. Thus her aim to create a better society involved ideas for social change rather than social stability. Benston has made a tremendous contribution to society, namely her concentration on finding ways to breakdown the hierarchical structure of knowledge and the technology created by it.

Margaret Benston and SCWIST

In 1981, Margaret Benston was one of the six founding members of SCWIST; she was also its Vice-President. Benston is also credited with the success of the 1983 National Conference on Canadian women in science, technology and engineering. Following her death in 1991, her strong support of female scientists earned her the title as SCWIST’s first honorary member. The SCWIST BC Institute of Technology scholarship was later renamed in her honour.

Other Activities

Margaret Benston is the author of “The Political Economy of Women’s Liberation”. This political piece of writing helped to change the lives of many people by showing us that individuals can make a difference. Benston was involved in many other projects. One of them was to develop a feminist alternative in an applied technological area. In examining how alternative values produce different technologies, she sought ways to involve users in the design and development of computer networks by structuring nonhierarchical relationships and through the development of distinct technologies.

Words of Wisdom

“We cannot afford to give up the struggle to understand and to come to terms with our world. As women and feminist, we must begin to deal with the science and technology that shapes our lives and even our bodies. We have been the objects of a bad science; now we must become makers of a new one,” Maggie Benston in Feminism and the Critique of Scientific Method, 1989

M. Hildred Blewett Scholarship

http://www.aps.org/programs/women/scholarships/blewett/index.cfm

The M. Hildred Blewett Scholarship for Women in Physics consists of an award of up to $45,000 to enable women to return to physics research careers after having had to interrupt those careers for family reasons.

Deadline: June 3, 2011

Margaret Lawson McTaggart-Cowan Alumni Bursary

http://www.math.sfu.ca/ugrad/awards/

$675 is awarded each fall to a female student who is majoring in Mathematics and who has completed at least two full-time semesters at Simon Fraser University.

Michael Smith Scholarship, UNBC

A SCWIST scholarship awarded annually and includes a one-year membership in SCWIST.

A scholarship awarded to a young woman midway through her Bachelor of Science program. Selection criteria include academic achievement, career aspirations, and community service.

Minerva Foundation for BC Women

http://www.theminervafoundation.com/programs/education/complete-list-of-awards/

The Minerva Foundation for BC Women established an Education Awards program with British Columbia’s post-secondary institutions to help BC women advance themselves by continuing their education. Awards are available to female residents of BC with demonstrated financial need and academic proficiency in either a graduate or undergraduate program. See website for specific requirements and grant amounts for each university/college.

Preference is given to:

Single mothers who are advancing their education
Mature women returning to the workforce after a long absence
Women in non-traditional fields of study
Immigrant and aboriginal women and women with disabilities

Deadline: Various

NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships

http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/PG-CS/BellandPostgrad-BelletSuperieures_eng.asp

Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) provide financial support to high-calibre scholars who are engaged in master’s or doctoral programs in the natural sciences or engineering. The CGS will be offered to the top-ranked applicants at each level (master’s and doctoral) and the next tier of meritorious applicants will be offered an NSERC PGS. This support allows these scholars to fully concentrate on their studies and seek out the best research mentors in their chosen fields. NSERC encourages interested and qualified Aboriginal students to apply. (Note these awards are open to both men and women.)

Deadline: Set by university or October 15 if applying directly to NSERC.

NSERC Industrial Postgraduate Scholarships

http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/PG-CS/IPS-BESII_eng.asp

Industrial Postgraduate Scholarships (IPS) provide financial support for highly qualified science and engineering graduates. The support allows them to gain research experience in industry while undertaking advanced studies in Canada. These scholarships are aimed at encouraging scholars to consider research careers in industry where they will be able to contribute to strengthening Canadian innovation. (Note these awards are open to both men and women.)

Deadline: No NSERC deadline, there may be university deadlines

NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships

http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/PG-CS/BellandPostgrad-BelletSuperieures_eng.asp

NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS) provide financial support to high-calibre scholars who are engaged in master’s or doctoral programs in the natural sciences or engineering. The CGS will be offered to the top-ranked applicants at each level (master’s and doctoral) and the next tier of meritorious applicants will be offered an NSERC PGS. This support allows these scholars to fully concentrate on their studies and seek out the best research mentors in their chosen fields. NSERC encourages interested and qualified Aboriginal students to apply. (Note these awards are open to both men and women.)

Deadline: Set by university or October 15 if applying directly to NSERC.

NSERC Postgraduate Supplements

http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/PG-CS/Supplements-Supplements/index_eng.asp

The Canadian L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Postgraduate Scholarship Supplement is available to women who have been awarded a PGS, a CGS or a Vanier CGS and are entering or are currently enrolled in a doctoral program.

Deadline: May 1

NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA)

http://www.nserc.ca/sf_e.asp?nav=sfnav&lbi=1a

These awards are meant to stimulate your interest in research in the natural sciences and engineering. They are also meant to encourage you to undertake graduate studies and pursue a research career in these fields. If you would like to gain research experience in an academic setting, these awards can provide you with financial support through your host university. NSERC encourages qualified Aboriginal students to apply to this program. (Note these awards are open to both men and women.)

Deadline: Set by university

Ontario Power Generation University Engineering Award

http://www.mypowercareer.com/Students/Awards/University_Engineering_Award.pdf

The University Engineering Award is available to students in an electrical, computer, mechanical, chemical, or environmental engineering program. The award recipients will receive priority consideration for a developmental work term following successful completion of the second year. The award is to be granted to a member of an employment equity target group, which includes women, First Peoples, people who are disabled, and people who are visible minorities. The award is given to a student who has completed one year and is currently in the second year of his or her program, and who is of good academic standing, with a minimum B average. (For Lakehead University only, the award recipient will be in the third year technology program and continuing in the engineering degree program.) The award requires strong oral and written communication skills, and demonstrated leadership skills. The student should be involved in extra-curricular activities. The candidate must be legally eligible to work in Canada upon graduation.

Deadline: Varies

Sloan Research Fellowships

http://www.sloan.org/fellowships

The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly to 118 researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.

Candidates must be members of the regular faculty (i.e. tenure track) of a college or university in appointments in United States or Canada, and be nominated by a senior scientist. Direct applications are not accepted. The eligibility criteria and further information can be found online. (Note these awards are open to both men and women.)

Deadline: September 15, 2011

University Women’s Club of Vancouver

http://www.uwcvancouver.ca/index.html

A Trust Fund for Education provides scholarships and bursaries to students at institutions including the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the British Columbia Institute of Technology, Langara College and Emily Carr University of Art & Design. Please contact the individual educational institutions’ awards offices for details.

Vale Inco Limited Masters Scholarships in Engineering

http://www.cemf.ca/VIMasters.html

Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation (CEMF) invites Canadian women who are Citizens of Canada and who are perusing their studies in engineering at the Masters level are invited to apply for one of our new FOUR annual $10,000 Inco Limited Masters Scholarships in Engineering.

Deadline: January 13, 2012

Vale Inco Undergraduate Scholarships in Engineering

http://www.cemf.ca/VIUg.html

Three new annual $10,000 scholarships for women in Canada who are pursuing their studies in engineering at the undergraduate level in first, second or third year and who are genuinely interested in pursuing careers in the mining industry in their chosen discipline. The scholarships come with a summer job opportunity with Vale Inco.

Deadline: January 13, 2012

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