Ontario Trillium Scholarship--deadline extension

Trillium scholarship program for international PhD students

Purpose

The Ontario Trillium Scholarships program will serve as a significant initiative to attract

more of the best qualified international students to Ontario for PhD studies. This is

particularly important as PhD spaces are a significant measure of a jurisdiction’s strength in both research and innovation in the new knowledge-based economy.

Design

The Ontario Trillium Scholarship will be worth $40,000 annually, and is renewable for four years. There are 75 new scholarships available each year, of which four are at Carleton.

Ontario universities are responsible for recruiting and selecting international PhD Ontario Trillium Scholarship recipients, based on merit, and in accordance with program criteria to be developed by the ministry.

The student must:

• be an international student (that is, a student who has received a temporary resident visa as a member of the student class under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act [Canada] on the first day of classes);
• be intending to pursue full-time graduate studies at an eligible Ontario university at the doctoral level;
• not have completed more than one year of doctoral studies prior to receipt of the Ontario Trillium Scholarship;
• not currently be studying at an Ontario institution; and
• not concurrently accepting a scholarship or fellowship from the federal research granting councils of an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) or Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (OGSST).

Please nominate no more than one student from each program. The student must be international according the above definition, be a new PhD student to Carleton and have outstanding academic merit.

Please send your nominations to Leslie Main (Coordinator, Graduate Awards) by April 8, 2013.

Any questions should be directed to Janet Mantler (Interim Associate Dean, Programs and Awards, FGPA)

Nomination Form available here.