The FGSR is pleased to welcome nominations and submissions for the Graduate Excellence Awards in three categories: The Graduate Teaching Award, which recognizes a graduate student from any discipline providing teaching assistance for undergrad classes; The Graduate Student Excellence Award (Innovation and Research), which recognizes students who conduct cutting-edge research; and The Graduate Community Engagement Award, which recognizes a student who demonstrates excellence in community engagement through service, research, creative activity, among many other forms of outreach.

If you're interested in submitting a nomination for any of these awards, or just would like to know more head over to the Graduate Awards page! The deadline for applications is Monday, May 30

It's that time of year again! The Annual General Election seeks to fill fifteen positions of the Graduate Student's Association. There are 5 positions open on the Executive Council and 10 faculty specific Council Committee positions available. If you're interested in running for any of these positions the deadline for nominations is Sunday, April 3rd at 11:59pm. urgsa@uregina.ca. General election nomination packages were sent to your U of R email account. Online voting will open on Monday, April 18 at 12:01am and close on Tuesday, April 19 at 11:59pm.

If there is an event, celebration, or milestone you would like to see highlighted in upcoming issues of the Grad Digest, please let us know! You can contact us via email: grad.engagement@uregina.ca

Ken Wilson, a PhD student in Media and Artistic Research, won the The City of Regina Writing Award. The annual award recognizes an unpublished manuscript written by a resident of Regina. Past winners include many well-known Saskatchewan writers, including Trevor Herriot, Medrie Purdham, Connie Gault, and Dianne Warren.

Ken Wilson began his PhD in Media and Artistic Research in the faculty of Media, Art, and Performance in 2018. He was interested in that degree program because it gave him an opportunity to engage in research-creation work, which in his case has taken the shape of a creative nonfiction manuscript entitled “Walking the Bypass: A Meditation on Place.” That manuscript documents many walks in and around Regina in the summer of 2020, and juxtaposes the experience of those walks against meditations on what it means to be a settler living on Indigenous land.

Come join this years virtual Young Entrepreneurs of the World (YEW) Conference! Taking place from Tuesday April 19 - Thursday April 21, the YEW Conference is an opportunity for students to come and learn about the power of entrepreneurship, and learn how they can harness this power to tackle real world problems such as climate change, inequity, social issues, and many more. If you're interested, you can register for the event here!

The SSHRC is pleased to announce the launch of the 6th edition of the International Policy Ideas Challenge call for proposals. This is a great opportunity to support training and coaching for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and early career researchers in building presentation, writing and knowledge mobilization skills that will inform policy development on emerging international policy challenges. The deadline for applications is May 20, 2022. If you're interested in learning more, the full details can be found here.

We're looking for students to serve on the PhD Committee! Interested students should be enrolled in a PhD program and will serve in the committee on a two-year commitment. Terms of reference and composition of the committee can be found here.

We are looking for nominations for Psychology faculty who have demonstrated noteworthy feminist mentoring. Nominations are invited from students and recent graduates who wish to acknowledge a professor (who is either still teaching or has since retired) who has been pivotal to their graduate and/or post-graduate experience and who promotes feminist scholarship, teaching, supervision, and practice. Nomination letters should describe how the mentor has been outstanding in supporting, encouraging, and promoting your feminist research as well as facilitating your (and other students’) professional, personal, and career development. Nominations are due Friday, April 15th by 5pm. To submit nomination letters and for any questions or concerns, please contact Tanja Samardzic, the SWAP Student Representative: tsamardz@uoguelph.ca

Undergraduate, graduate students and young professionals, if you want to make an impact on the energy transition, now is your opportunity. AAPG has kicked off its inaugural global Sustainable Development in Energy Competition.

Open Projects or (Request for Researchers (RFRs) service at Mitacs is dedicated to Businesses and not-for-profit organizations looking for the right researcher to support them in their innovation projects. Mitacs works with domestic and international partners to circulate your opportunity throughout our post-secondary networks to find you candidates who are the best fit and put their skills and knowledge into practice. If you find the right project, Mitacs will connect you to the company to discuss and develop the Mitacs research proposal. If you are a researcher (undergrad, grad student or postdoc), explore the available projects using the filters, and apply using the link at the end of the project description. If you are a faculty member at a Canadian or foreign academic institution and are interested in one of these projects, please contact Fatima Dargah fdargah@mitacs.ca

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