Students earn prestigious travel supplement
Rachel Dawson, graduate awards manager, 778.782.8499; r_dawson@sfu.ca
Carol Thorbes, PAMR, 778.782.3035; cthorbes@sfu.ca
Nine Simon Fraser University graduate students are among 250 university students nationally who have been awarded a 2009 research-related travel supplement by the federal government.
The Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements, a Canadian Graduate Scholarship (CGS) award, go only to the crème de la crème of graduate students nationally. Successful applicants must already hold an active CGS to be eligible for up to $6,000. The funding is to defray travel and accommodation costs for research purposes. Eligible candidates must also be pursuing master’s or doctoral research that takes them for a three to six month period outside of Canada.
The SFU recipients are pursuing research in places that span the globe, including Latin America, Africa, Europe and Asia.
Their research covers a wide array of issues, from the severity of gender, poverty and agro-ecological vulnerability in Guatemala to the combined impacts of fishing and climate change on coral reefs in Kenya.
Three federal research-granting agencies bestow these travel supplements, which amounted to $1.5 million nationally in 2009. They are the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
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Backgrounder: Students earn prestigious travel supplement
There are nine SFU recipients of the 2009 Canadian Graduate Scholarships’ Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements. The students and their research include:
Carol Wong, psychology, SSHRC grant, travel to Hong Kong: the different voices of victims, the effect of victim impact statements on sentencing decisions in Canada and Hong Kong
Emily Darling, biological science, NSERC grant, travel to Kenya: multiple stressors on coral reefs and the combined impacts of fishing and climate change in Kenya
Daniel Zeldin, Latin American Studies, SSHRC grant, travel to Colombia: long-term effects of internal displacement in Colombia and how internally displaced persons use cultural programs as a means of dealing with these effects
Perry Stein, Latin American Studies, SSHRC grant, travel to Ecuador: urban development and the fortification and privatization of public spaces
Christopher McIntosh, computing science, NSERC grant, travel to France: development of robust medical image segmentation and analysis techniques to help physicians deliver non-invasive medical diagnosis and treatments
Katherine Muldoon, health sciences, CIHR grant, travel to Uganda: building research capacity in resource-limited settings
Sarah Bull, English, SSHRC grant, travel to London, England, research: 19th century obscenity, sexual identity and affective communities in Britain, 1860-1901
Kathleen LeBlanc, archaeology, SSHRC grant, travel to Fiji: Ethnoarchaeology in Fiji: ceramic diversity and social processes
Christina Bielek, sociology and anthropology, SSHRC, travel to Guatemala: gender, poverty and agro-ecological vulnerability in rural Guatemala
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