Scholarships and Awards

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Undergraduate Scholarships

In-Course Scholarships

There are several miscellaneous in-course scholarships for which undergraduate students may be eligible.  Except for the following three scholarships, students should be advised that there are no application procedures.  Students will be awarded based on their eligibility under each scholarship's criteria.

George Mandler Research Fund:
Year: Any
Value: TBA (amount could be split up between multiple awardees)
Description: Awarded on the basis of academic merit to undergraduate students undertaking research initiatives in the Department of Psychology. Financial need may also be considered.
Application Procedures: Send the Undergraduate Advisor a letter outlining the project that the fund would support and to have the supervising faculty member send a letter of support as well. Name and student number, PSY subject POSt, and year-level should be included in the letter. Please also include a ROSI printout of courses and marks. Applications are due June 1st, 2012.

Linda Mamelak Undergraduate Award:
Application forms can also be downloaded or obtained from the Psychology Department in room 4014 Sidney Smith Hall.  The award is valued at (TBA) but could be split up between multiple awardees. Applications are due June 1st, 2012 (and no earlier) and should be submitted to the Undergraduate Advisor, room 4014 Sidney Smith Hall.

Horace O. Frosty Steer Award in Psychology:
This award will go to a graduating student in the Specialist or Major program in Psychology or the Specialist program in Psychology Research who enrols in an approved graduate program in Psychology, concentrating in the area of problems of children. If you have enrolled in and started a graduate program in this particular area, please contact the Undergraduate Advisor and prepare to provide proof of your enrolment and of the concentration of your studies. Value varies from year to year in the range of $3000-4000 CDN. Deadline: June 1st, 2012.

Additional information on scholarships is available on the Faculty of Arts & Science website at: http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/undergraduate/undergraduate-scholarships

For 2010-2011's successful recipients, please see here.

Undergraduate Research Award:
Please see here a new Undergraduate Research Award, launched in the Fall of 2011. This award is brought to you, and administered, by the Faculty of Arts and Science. If you have any questions about this award, this link provides an email address for the correct person to contact. Please note the due date for the second round of applications is March 2012.

NSERC Undergraduate Student Research (USRA) Awards

The Department of Psychology departmental deadline for NSERC USRA applications is Friday February 24, 2012 .

Information on the 2012 NSERC USRA awards:

Students must approach a grantee and request to apply to this award with him/her. Grantees may have several students doing the same and may hold interviews to determine who the best candidate(s) is/are. Please give yourself and the grantee(s) you are interested in plenty of time to go through all of these procedures. Please note that students must have completed two semesters of studies at the time of application (first-year students not eligible).

Once students have secured a supervisor, both must complete their respective forms (Part I for the student, part II for the supervisor) ONLINE. Applications must then be printed, but please DO NOT press submit yet! Those prepared by any other means (e.g., handwritten or manually typewritten) will NOT be accepted. We will not accept faxed copies either. The student must also secure a ROSI printout of their grades to both forms along with the application checklist with a paperclip and bring it into the Undergraduate Advisor during the pre-scheduled informal 'application check' on Friday February 24th where the Advisor will determine the student's eligibility to apply and the application is checked for any mistakes. Once the student's eligibility is established, the application will be given to the selection committee. If the student is nominated for the award, he/she must order an official University of Toronto transcript and have it sent/brought immediately to the Advisor. DO NOT GET AN OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT UNLESS YOU ARE GIVEN THE AWARD! The transcript must be given to the Advisor in a SEALED ENVELOPE only. The Advisor will then make a PDF copy of the transcript and email it to the student. The student must then upload it to the NSERC online application site. Please note that this is only done when the student has been selected. Student and supervisor will also have to submit an RIS form. The Advisor will make this form available once the student has been selected to receive the award.

Please make sure you show up for the eligibility application check at the time you signed up. A sign-up schedule has been posted beside the door of Sidney Smith Hall, room 4014.

Dept. of Psychology Rules for NSERC Applications:

We will not accept applications from students at other universities
We will not accept applications from non-PSY Program students
Students must have a current minimum CGPA of 2.7 on their transcript
Students must be in at least second year to apply
We will not accept LATE applications
You MUST commit to the full 16-weeks of the work term

For more information, please visit the NSERC page at Research Services. Please contact the Undergraduate Advisor if you have any other questions.

University of Toronto Undergraduate Excellence Awards in the Natural Sciences and Engineering (UTEA-NSE)

Applications are due Thursday April 5th, 2012 in SS 4014. Please do not drop application off, please meet with the Undergraduate Advisor with your completed application for verification of eligibility. We are only permitted to nominate three people from our department to be placed in the competition.

Information on the 2012 UTEA-NSE awards:

University of Toronto Excellence Award in the Social Sciences and Humanities (UTEA-SSH)

Applications are due Thursday April 5th, 2012 in SS 4014. Please do not drop application off, please meet with the Undergraduate Advisor with your completed application for verification of eligibility. We are only permitted to nominate two people from our department to be placed in the competition.

Information on the 2012 UTEA-SSH awards:

Graduate Scholarships

NSERC/OGS/SSHRC/CIHR:

Application deadlines for these graduate scholarships are as follows:

NSERC: Friday October 7, 2011

OGS: Wednesday, October 12, 2011

SSHRC: Monday November 14, 2011

CIHR: Wednesday November 16, 2011

In an effort to assist you in applying for these award competitions, the Graduate Awards Office is pleased to provide the following workshops:

September 16 - SSHRC/NSERC/OGS Application Workshop for Students (St. George)

September 21 - SSHRC/NSERC/OGS Application Workshop for Students (UTM)

September 22 - SSSHRC/NSERC/OGS Application Workshop for Students (UTSC)

Application forms and information can be found on the agencies web sites and are to be submitted to the Undergraduate Advisor in Sidney Smith Hall, room 4014. Late applications will not be accepted. Please note that students are allowed to apply to only one of NSERC, SSHRC and CIHR in a given year.

Please don't hesitate to email or call the Undergraduate Advising Office if you have any questions about completing your application, however, some of the more complex questions can only be answered by the agencies themselves.

Please make sure you read the eligibility requirements and application instructions very carefully. Any student with an average under 80% in their last two years of full-time study should not apply. If you need help determining whether or not you meet this average, please contact the Psychology Undergraduate Advisor.

Additionally, if you have already graduated, only apply directly to the department if you graduated within the last 12 months. Anyone who has graduated prior to November of the previous year must apply directly to the agency.

Please give yourself and your referees an adequate amount of time to complete and submit these applications, including the time it takes to order transcripts.

Please note that UTM and UTSC students must hand in OGS applications to the undergraduate psychology office at their own campus. For NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR, UTSC students must apply to their department, UTM students send in their applications to the St. George campus Undergraduate Office (Sidney Smith Hall, room 4014). These arrangements could change in the future and, if so, will be posted here.