Do you know a grad student doing cutting-edge research? Who's going above and beyond to serve in the community? Is a stellar Teaching Assistant? FGSR invites you to help us recognize students across these categories each year with Excellence Awards. The deadline to nominate someone who you think is deserving is August 31. Find out more here.

Thesis Submission & Convocation Deadlines

Thesis submission deadlines:

Spring/Summer term PhD thesis submission deadline: June 2, 2023.

Spring/Summer term Master’s thesis submission deadline: June 23, 2023.

Convocation:

2023 Fall (October) Convocation application deadline: July 31, 2023.

For more information, email: grad.defense@uregina.ca.

iGPS & Grad Community Workshops

GAP How to Apply Sessions – Thursday May 4, 10:30-11:30 a.m. & Tuesday May 16 from 1:30-2:30 p.m.

How to Submit and Defend Your Thesis – Thursday May 11 from 3-4 p.m.

DRS: Conducting a Literature Review – Thursday May 18 from 1:30-3 p.m.

Thesis Thursdays – Thursday May 18, June 1 & 15 from 2-4 p.m.

CAGS Anti-Racisim Response Training – Thursday May 25 from 11:30 a.m-2:30 p.m. & 3:30-6:30 p.m. (ET)

(FGSR will subsidize the $50 registration fee for five students.)

Associate Deans Office Hours – Every Wednesday from 12-1 p.m.

Mitacs EDGE Training

Education, Development, Growth, Engagement (EDGE) by Mitacs Training offers professional training to complement your education and enhance your research experience by providing you with skills that are in-demand from today’s workforce. 

The following workshops are available:

• Applying the principles of sound leadership and team building
• Building your project network map
• Framing your project in a masterful presentation
• Incorporating reconciliation, equity, diversity, and inclusion into your project
• Mastering the elevator pitch
• Project and time management
• Refined project communication plan

To register, students need to create an account or log in on EDGE. For any questions, please contact us at training@mitacs.ca .

FGSR will be opening its Spring Scholarship competition on May 1. This competition includes more than 30 scholarships. Each scholarship, generously provided by donors with different terms and conditions. To learn if you are eligible and to apply for these scholarships, you can visit our graduate applications portal (GAP).

The deadline for applications is May 31. Be proactive and start working on your application when the portal opens on May 1. Late applications will not be accepted.

Find out more information about upcoming scholarship reminders and deadlines at the links below:

• Tips for Funding and Scholarships
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Bertrum Scholarship for PhD Students- application deadline is May 19.
• Saskatchewan Centre for Patient Oriented Research (SCPOR) Matched Trainee Funding- Application deadline June 1
• Kathryn Huget Leadership Award - application deadline June 30

Remember that there are many more scholarship opportunities on our Scholarships web page. Please go through each and every link to find what you are fully eligible for.

Culture and Diversity Calendar

Culturally significant dates and celebrations in May include: 

Asian Heritage Month (Canada)

2 – Last Day of Ramadan (Islam)

3 – Akshaya Tritiya (Hinduism)

12 - Women in Mathematics

17 – International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

14 – Vaisakhi Puja (Buddhism)

21 – World Cultural Diversity Day

23 – Queen Victoria Day (Canada)

24 – Pascha (Christianity- Russian Orthodox)

26 – Ascension Day (Christianity)

29 – Ascension of Baha’u’llah (Baha’i)

29 – International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers

For more information on other culturally significant days, please visit FGSR Diversity Calendar.

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.

News from GATE: Kickstart Pitch Summit makes case for business

Geology PhD student Brendan Bishop won the University of Regina's Kickstart Pitch Summit on April 28 with his business model around lithium extraction in Saskatchewan. Kickstart, a program of the University of Regina’s Graduate Advanced Training & Entrepreneurship (GATE) Centre, supports undergraduate and graduate students with innovative ideas for startups by providing mentorship on how to turn their concepts into realities.

Please join us in congratulating fellow graduate students who have successfully defended their PhD dissertations from March 16 – April 12: 

Aida Mohamed Abushagur, PhD in Education

Thesis title: The role of intercultural communicative competence in the acquisition of English as an Additional Language for Arab Learners: A hermeneutic phenomenological study

Supervisor: Dr Fatima Pirbhai-Illich

José Wellington Sousa, PhD in Education

Thesis title: Forged within power relations: A narrative study about non-academics becoming community-based research facilitators

Supervisors: Dr Cindy Hanson and Dr Sara Schroeter

Reza Masoomi, PhD in Petroleum Systems Engineering

Thesis title: Heavy oil recovery by combined solvent and hot water (CS-HW) injection: Experimental, numerical and data mining-based analysis

Supervisor: Dr Farshid Torabi

Sina Sajjadi, PhD in Industrial Systems Engineering

Thesis title: Predictive visual servoing; uncertainty analysis and probabilistic robust frameworks

Supervisors: Dr Mehran Mehrandezh and Dr Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi

Mohamed Ahmed Elhendawi Ahmed, PhD in Electronic Systems Engineering

Thesis title: Integration of electric vehicles into power systems

Supervisor: Dr Zhanle (Gerald) Wang

Listen up! The University of Regina has a new limited-series, research-focused podcast

Go far, Together will introduce you to some of our University’s brightest thinkers. From outer space to Reconciliation, from first-responders’ mental health to the connection between cannabis and the NFL, it explores how these researchers are changing the world and how we understand it, right here on the Prairies!

Cultural Creativity Session at the ta-tawâw Centre

Please come out to the ta-tawâw Student Centre (RIC 108) to learn some Indigenous bead-work skills and create some simple projects (or more advanced if you wish). We will provide instructions and materials for you. The Cultural Creativity sessions run each Tuesday from 4-6 p.m. and Friday from 1-4 p.m., with our instructor Connie Mussell.

2023 VIRTUAL CANADIAN DOCTORAL NURSING NETWORK CONFERENCE

On June 5, 6, & 7, 2023, the University of Regina Faculty of Nursing is hosing the 2023 Virtual Canadian Doctorial Nursing Network Conference. It's open to students from any discipline at any stage of their doctoral journey; masters students are welcome to attend. For more information, including on pricing and registration, visit this website or email Nursing.Research@uregina.ca.

Chancellor's Mother's Day Concert with Malcolm Lowe

The University of Regina is pleased to welcome home Malcolm Lowe, an Honorary Degree Recipient and the former concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, for a special concert at Darke Hall on Sunday, May 14 at 2 p.m. Presenting a retrospective of some of the music he first learned and played at the U of R Conservatory of Performing Arts, he will be joined by special guest pianist Rachel Andrist,the Conservatory's Head of Accompaniment. Tickets are available at darkehall.ca.

Startup TNT Networking Opportunities

May 4 - Startup TNT's Summit VII Top20 Pitch Night will be broadcast live on YouTube from Saskatoon, but there will be watch party in Regina at Memories Lounge Bar; doors at 5:30 p.m.,pitches at 6 p.m.

May 11 - TNT Happy Hour at Cathedral Social Hall at 6 p.m.

May 18 - Combined Happy Hour with Innovation Saskatchewan in the main rotunda at Innovation Place at 4:30 p.m. 430pm start. We plan to feature past companies, local small shops, vendors, distilleries and local artists and musicians.

May 25 - TNT Happy Hour Special Edition at the UP23 Conference in Saskatoon. This is THE event of the year for the startup ecosystem in the Prairies.

Mitacs, Open Projects Request for Graduate Researchers

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. For more information, please contact Fatima Dargah at fdargah@mitacs.ca.

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