Dr. Weston Blake Jr Memorial Scholarship

1. ACUNS offers one scholarship valued at $10,000 available to students who are citizens or permanent residents of Canada presently enrolled in a doctoral program at a Canadian university.

2. Proposals are invited from candidates studying the physical sciences including interdisciplinary and comparative studies who (a) engage in research culminating in a thesis or other such document, (b) include direct northern field research or experience as part of their studies, and (c) whose programs are relevant to northern challenges or issues.

3. The selection committee will be guided by the following considerations: academic record, the quality of the application, potential benefit of the research, originality, referee’s reports, and the applicants’ interest in, and commitment to, the north and northern scholarship.

 4. The research must involve a northern fieldwork component that is conducted between May (in the year the award is granted) and the following March.