Awards for Faculty Members

Award Name	Deadline	Summary
The Human Frontier Science Program - Innovative Frontier Research Grants	Compulsory pre-registration, via the web site: Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Submission of Letters of Intent: Thursday, March 31, 2011	The Human Frontier Science Program supports international preferably intercontinental collaborations in basic life science research with emphasis placed on innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to fundamental investigations.
The James B. Christoph Prize	Friday, April 1, 2011	The British Politics Group invites applications for the seventh annual James B. Christoph Prize for the Best Conference Paper on British Politics presented by a junior faculty member. The paper (or poster) must have been presented at a conference during the 2010 calendar year. All papers on British politics, whether solely on Britain or comparative, are eligible. For the purposes of the award, a 'junior faculty member' is defined as having been granted his or her PhD within the last 10 years.
Killam Awards for Excellence in Mentoring	Friday, October 7, 2011; check with department regarding internal deadline	The Killam Awards for Excellence in Mentoring are based on sustained mentorship of numerous graduate students over many years.
Canada-US Fulbright Program	Tuesday, November 15, 2011	The Canada-US Fulbright Program is a bi-national program of educational exchange, with a mandate to enhance mutual understanding between the people of Canada and the people of the United States of America. Available to graduate students, faculty, professionals and independent researchers, successful applicants conduct research, lecture, or enroll in formal academic programs in the United States. Fulbright Canada offers various scholarship awards within this program, with further information on the various award opportunities made available through the Canada-US Fulbright Program website.
CIHR Synapse Mentorship Awards	Friday, January 27, 2012	CIHR Synapse Mentorship Awards honour individuals or groups who have made exceptional contributions to the promotion of health research among Canadian secondary school students.
Canadian Society of Medievalists Leonard E. Boyle Prize	Wednesday, February 1, 2012	The Leonard E. Boyle Dissertation Prize for Medieval Studies is awarded to a deserving doctoral thesis in any field of medieval studies completed at a Canadian university or by a Canadian citizen studying abroad.
Killam Teaching Prize for Graduate Instruction	Nominations to Grad Studies: Friday, 2 March 2012. Please check with department regarding internal deadline.	One Killam Teaching Prize is awarded annually to a faculty member in recognition of excellent graduate-level teaching. This is intended primarily for teaching excellence in graduate course work, although excellence in other areas of graduate education such as program development or mentoring will be given some weight. Candidates may be nominated by colleagues, current graduate students, or alumni.
Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities	Monday, March 26, 2012	Named in honor of the first president of the Council of Graduate Schools and first presented in 1972, this award is made annually to a scholar-teacher in the humanities. The recipient must be teaching in a North American university, have earned a doctorate within 7 years of the award date, and have written a book of scholarly importance. Subjects fields are selected annually. Awards have been made in literature, history, linguisitics, foreign languages, philosophy, archaeology and musicology. The 2012 competition is in the field of World Language and Literature, Comparative Literature, Drama/Theater Arts.
Charles D. Gonthier Research Fellowship	Monday, November 5, 2012	The Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice provides funds for a $7500 Research Fellowship in order to support research related to the Institute's annual conference theme. The completed research is expected to be presented at the Institute’s annual conference in 2013 in Toronto and published with its proceedings. For the 2012 competition, the annual conference theme is:"How Do We Know What We Think We Know: Facts in the Legal System." Open to faculty and graduate students at Canadian universities.