SSHRC awards $685,000 to 23 U of S graduate students

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has awarded $685,000 for scholarships and fellowships to twenty-three University of Saskatchewan graduate students to study a wide range of issues including the impact of environmental change on wildlife management, effects of executive compensation in the public sector, and ways of reducing poverty in rural communities.

“This investment in our outstanding and diverse research talent will result in new knowledge that will have an impact on society, the environment and the economy, while training the next generation of innovative researchers,” said U of S Vice-President Research Karen Chad.

SSHRC will support university-based research and training in the humanities and social sciences through the following graduate student awards:

• U of S doctoral students Katya MacDonald (history) and Chassidy Puchala (community health and epidemiology) were each awarded prestigious Canada Graduate Doctoral Scholarship, valued at $35,000 per year for three years.
• Three U of S students—Kurt Krueger (history), Nancy Peters (education) and Terri Simon (psychology)—were awarded doctoral fellowships valued at $20,000 annually.
• Eighteen U of S students—five of them from the English department—were awarded a Joseph Bombardier Canada Graduate Master’s Scholarship valued at $17,500 for one year. For a full list of recipients, see below.

The College of Graduate Studies and Research will provide each recipient, who registers in a graduate program at the U of S, with an additional $3,000 tuition scholarship.

SSHRC also awarded a further $923,290 to U of S faculty research teams in the Standard Research Grants, the Aboriginal Research and Development Grants and the International Opportunities Fund competitions. For a complete list of the research team members and project descriptions, please visit the University of Saskatchewan Research News website at http://www.usask.ca/research/.

 

Joseph Bombardier Canada Graduate Master's Scholarship Awardees for 2010:

Buchwaldt, Andreas	Art & Art History	Visual Arts
Chilima, Jania	Environment & Sustainability	Human Ecology
DesRoches, Andrea	Psychology	Child & Adolescent Psychology
Dyck, Shannon	Environment & Sustainability	Human Ecology
Elliott, Ian	English	History
Johnson, Lisa	English	Canadian Literature
Kelly, Anne	English	English Literature
Knorr, Lyndsav	Ed Psychology & Special Ed	Educational Psychology
Konkel, Rob	History	Social History
Larsen, Ian	Archaeology & Anthropology	Archaeology
Mampe, Maria	Archaeology & Anthropology	Archaeology
McDine, David	Psychology	Psychology
Oh, Ju Hcc	Art & Art History	Fine Arts
Petersen, Amber	Kinesiology	Child & Adolescent Psychology
Robertson, Daniel	Psychology	Social Psychology
Shwetz, Katherine	English	Canadian Literature
Smith, Karen	English	Mediaeval Literature
Steeves, Josephine	Political Studies	Political Science
Wickenhauser, Joseph	Languages & Linguistics	Interdiscipliary Studies