Overview
The Government of Canada launched the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) program in 2009 to strengthen Canada`s ability to attract and retain the world`s top-tier doctoral students. Vanier scholars demonstrate leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in the social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and engineering, and health.

The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (Vanier CGS) was created to attract and retain world-class doctoral students and to establish Canada as a global centre of excellence in research and higher learning. It is worth $50,000 per year for three years and is available to both Canadian and international PhD students studying at Canadian universities.

CEMF Undergraduate Engineering Scholarships for Women, Canada
Scholarship for Women’s in Canada by the The Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation

Job Description: The foundation was founded in 1990 to develop scholarship and award programs that encourage women to choose engineering as a career to honour the memory of the 14 women at École Polytechnique whose contributions to Canada ended on December 6, 1989.

Each year CEMF offers up to five $5,000 Undergraduate Engineering Scholarships to young women across Canada who are proven leaders, active in their community and volunteer work, and act as mentors to other young women to encourage them to pursue a career in engineering. These scholarships are not based on academic achievement.

The Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund (MMMF) awards educational grants to women from developing countries whose graduate studies and future plans aim to benefit women and children in their respective regions. Commitment to this goal is an essential selection criterion.

The Fund is staffed mostly by volunteers and is affiliated with the World Bank Family Network. Many World Bank spouses volunteer yearly to raise funds for these grants.
MMMF Educational Grants US/Canada —Academic Year 2010-2011
MMMF GRANTS IN THE US AND CANADA

The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, is seeking a graduate student at the PhD level in urban climatology/micrometeorology. The position is part of a collaborative research network on ‘Environmental Prediction in Canadian Cities’ (EPiCC) funded by the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS). The successful PhD candidate will receive three years of full-time support at a yearly minimum rate of CAD 18300 with a possibility to extend to 4 years through internal funding.

The research will involve eddy covariance measurements and modeling of energy, water and carbon exchange between urban environments and the atmosphere. It will focus on temporal dynamics of fluxes with special respect to anthropogenic activities, urban vegetation and irrigation. Existing rural and suburban tower sites and upcoming mobile measurements will allow addressing urban-rural differences as well as intra-urban variability.