University of Manitoba Fletcher, James Gordon PhD Fellowship

University of Manitoba is offering the Fletcher, James Gordon PhD Fellowship in Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals fellowship.

Research Fields

Functional foods, nutraceuticals

Categories    

Agriculture
Home Economics/Human Ecology

Citizenship   

Unrestricted

Eligibility       

Through a testamentary gift from James Gordon Fletcher, a graduate of Agricultural and Food Sciences at the University of Manitoba (B.S.A./25), a fund has been established at the University to support graduate fellowships. This award will serve to stimulate, support, and encourage research in Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals by Ph.D. students at the University of Manitoba in Departments associated with the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals.

This fellowship shall be offered to a student who:

• is enrolled full-time in a Ph.D. program in the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the University of Manitoba and has been in this program for less than two years at the time when this fellowship is offered (for this award only, the time frame for transfer students will begin at the point of transfer into the Ph.D. program)
• has achieved a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.75 over the two regular academic years prior to the session in which this fellowship is tenable
• is conducting research in a field pertaining to Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals.

This fellowship cannot be held with another award valued at or higher than the current value of the University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship at the Ph.D. level.

Applicants will be selected on the basis of academic excellence, commitment to their field of study, the quality and value of the research proposal, and their career objectives.

Value            

$13000 (approximately)

Currency      

Canadian

Tenable at    

At the University of Manitoba in departments associated with the Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals Centre for the 2015-2016 competition year.

Deadlines      

May 14

For further details and application please visit the University of Manitoba Fletcher, James Gordon PhD Fellowship page.