Graduate Student Innovation Scholars – Pitch Event: L-R: Sheri Williams, Claire Vannelli, Tomi Nano, AbdulWahab Kabani, Gillian Mandich, Adam Paish, Lisa Cechetto (Executive Director, WORLDiscoveries)
Graduate Student Innovation Scholars: Add value to your graduate degree & research...
Looking to add value to your graduate degree and to your research? Join Western’s cohort of Graduate Student Innovation Scholars! Receive a participation award of $1,500. Apply your discipline-specific knowledge and develop expertise in entrepreneurship, commercialization and knowledge transfer with hands-on training. Apply your knowledge. Apply today.
• Current Western graduate student
• Evidence of teamwork, creative thinking and presentation skills
• Any translational research, commercialization or entrepreneurship experience
• A $1,500 award, one term of training and a certificate of completion
• Expertise in commercialization, entrepreneurship and knowledge transfer
• Training for up to three teams of three
• Submit your CV, a 200-250-word statement of interest and a cover letter
• Submit your application to sis@uwo.ca
Applications can be submitted now and are due by midnight on Sunday, December 9, 2018.
Interviews will be conducted the week of December 17.
The program is expected to start in January.
To learn more about the Graduate Student Innovation Scholars program and to submit your application, please email sis@uwo.ca.
You can download the program syllabus for Winter 2019 here. The Student and Faculty Acknowledgement contains a little more detail on the program and will have to be signed by selected participants prior to the start of the program and supervisor signature is highly encouraged but not mandatory - you can read it here.
The Student Success Centre can provide help and support such as:
