Overview The Bennett Family Graduate Scholarship for Black and Indigenous Students: will be open to graduate students who identify as Black and/or Indigenous. Recipients must have a minimum GPA of 7.5 or A, and be Canadian citizens, permanent residents or protected persons and resident of Ontario who demonstrate financial need. Doctoral scholarships will be renewable […]
Overview The Bennett Family Graduate Scholarship for Black and Indigenous Students: will be open to graduate students who identify as Black and/or Indigenous. Recipients must have a minimum GPA of 7.5 or A, and be Canadian citizens, permanent residents or protected persons and resident of Ontario who demonstrate financial need. Master's scholarships will be renewable […]
Overview The Peter Mackey Scholarship in Critical Disability Studies will be given to an incoming full-time doctoral student who has a disability and is enrolled in the Critical Disability Studies program. Peter Mackey was in the final years of completing his doctorate in the Graduate Program in Critical Disability Studies when he died suddenly on […]
Overview The Fancher-Bakan-Danziger Awards for Excellence in Historical, Theoretical and Critical Studies of Psychology will be awarded to York University graduate students for excellence in Historical, Theoretical and Critical Studies of Psychology. Two (2) Fancher-Bakan-Danziger Awards will be granted annually: one(1) award will be granted to a graduate student at the Masters level who has […]
Overview The Gordon Darroch International Scholar Award will be granted annually to a full-time international Ph.D. student in any year of study enrolled in the Graduate Program in Sociology at York University. To be eligible for the award, students must be a fulltime international Ph.D. student and demonstrate outstanding academic achievement. Recipients can receive this […]
Overview The Dymond Prize will be awarded annually to a student who demonstrates outstanding performance in the graduate level course, Theory ofComputing & Scientific Computing. The Dymond Prize is in recognition of retired EECS faculty member Professor Emeritus Patrick Dymond, contributions to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Lassonde School of […]
Overview Established in honour of Dr. Michael Bordt (MES, York, 1978; PhD, Geography, University of Ottawa, 2015) to mark his worldwide contributions to the development of environmental statistics through the application of informatics, this scholarship supports students enrolled in the Master or Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Studies programs at York University. The Michael Bordt […]
Overview Kevin Jackson was a valued and beloved mad activist, scholar, friend, and colleague in the Critical Disability Studies program; he also furthered connections with other disability justice and activist communities in Toronto and beyond. For decades Kevin had dedicated his labour, creativity and passion to cross-disability activism and seeking justice often denied to disabled […]
Overview Morris Wolfe (1938-2021) was a prominent cultural nationalist Canadian writer whose thoughts about media were published in regular columns Saturday Night and The Globe and Mail, and in book form in Jolts: The TV Wasteland and the Canadian Oasis (1965). Wolfe advocated for and wrote about Canadian media in A Saturday Night Scrapbook (1973), […]
Overview The Wilhelm Cohnstaedt Social Justice Award will support a graduate student in the School of Arts, Media, Performance and Design or the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies whose research focuses on the principles of social justice and issues of human rights, equality, equity and inclusion. Priority will be given to research that […]