Funding Info

• Every faculty member gets $500 per year in professional development funds. This money can be used up to 3 years later, or borrowed for up to 5 years in advance. More details can be found at http://www.hr.ubc.ca/faculty_relations/compensation/pdrfund.html
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• The department's charges for the direct costs of technical support: GrantText

Funding Sources

General

• NSERC (http://www.nserc.gc.ca/index.htm) is a main source of funding.
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• The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) (http://www.innovation.ca/index.cfm) provides funding mostly for infrastructure (e.g., large equipment, etc.)
• the Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) (http://www.nce-rce.gc.ca/index.htm) funds partnerships between university, government and industry
• The UBC Office of Research Services (ORS) has a set of upcoming deadlines that you can peruse: http://www.ors.ubc.ca/funding/deadlines.htm
• ICICS has a number of programs, including graduate student travel support, and contributions to purchases of PCs (http://www.icics.ubc.ca/about/support.html).

Targetted funding for faculty

• Microsoft has a fellowship program for new faculty (http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/nff/) for $100,000 a year for 2 years. It's open to US and Canadian faculty members. The ligibility requirements are as of the application year you must:
  • be in your first, second, or third year as a faculty member
  • be in your first faculty position
  • be no more than 6 years from the completion of your most recent PhD
  • be the only one nominated by your university

Graduate Fellowship Sources:

• NSERC has fellowships for Canadian Masters and PhD students. More information can be found at http://www.nserc.gc.ca/sf_e.asp?nav=sfnav&lbi=2a
  • Applications are due late September
• UGF fellowships: http://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/index.asp?menu=004,000,000,000
  • Internal to UBC.
  • Applications due in late September.
  • Can be made to international students, but some students (e.g., those coming directly from mainland China) may be ineligible based on the systems that their transcripts use
  • Canadian students who apply must also apply for NSERC fellowships (see above)
• IBM fellowships: http://www.developer.ibm.com/university/scholars/fellowship/phd/ Students must be PhD students who have completed at least one year in their PhD program at the time of application.
• Microsoft Research fellowships: http://www.research.microsoft.com/aboutmsr/jobs/fellowships/default.aspx Students must be in their second or third year of a PhD program. Limit of 3 applications per department per year; applications must be made through the department head.