Faculty of Graduate Studies
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Investing in Graduate Students

Dalhousie There are a number of ways you can direct your donation to the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Whether the Annual Fund, specific endowments, or a new idea you may have, your gift helps graduate students.

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Yearly Activities

Annual Fund

Donations to the Annual Fund, which are designated for the Faculty of Graduate Studies, are used to support a number of graduate student initiatives each year. Last year, for example, funds from the Annual Fund were used for:

  • The DAGS (Dalhousie Association of Graduate Students) orientation;
  • Conferences and seminars in History, Interdisciplinary PhD, English, Chemistry, Philosophy, and German;
  • The "Let's Talk Science" program connecting graduate students in engineering and the sciences with schools in the Halifax Regional Municipality;
  • The graduate advisor award, and graduate TA award.
Century of Enlightenment Fund

The Century of Enlightenment Fund was established in 1990 by an anonymous donor to cover extra expenses associated with bringing in external examiners for PhD defences in the Arts and Social Sciences, as well as honoraria to examiners who give public lectures during their visit to Dalhousie. The fund was established in honour of Dr. Judith Fingard, then Dean of Graduate Studies, who championed the idea of having such a fund to encourage visiting external examiners to give public lectures while at Dalhousie. In the last year these funds have been used for external examiners in:

  • English
  • Environmental Studies
  • Philosophy
  • Sociology and Social Anthropology

Interdisciplinary PhD

Interdisciplinary PhD Student Endowment: The Duffy Award

This fund was started by Dr. Jack Duffy and Mrs. Corinne Duffy. Jack was the first Keeper of the Interdisciplinary PhD program and was largely responsible for establishing a vibrant community for the scholars in the cohort. The purpose of this fund is to provide assistance to Interdisciplinary PhD students in the form of scholarships or direct assistance for travel or other research expenses.

Scholarships

Eliza Ritchie Endowment Scholarship

The Eliza Ritchie Doctoral Scholarship was established to commemorate Women's Centennial Year (1985) and to recognize the contribution to Dalhousie of one of its most important nineteenth-century graduates. After completing her undergraduate studies at Dalhousie in 1887, Eliza Ritchie (1856-1933) became one of the first Canadian women to receive a PhD (Cornell University, 1889). She cut short her professional career at Wellesley College in Massachusetts to return to Halifax, in 1899, where she devoted her energies to feminist and cultural causes, and to Dalhousie, for the rest of her life. She was the first warden of a Dalhousie women's residence (Forrest Hall, 1912-13), the first woman to serve as a member of the Dalhousie Board of Governors (1919-25), and the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Dalhousie.

James R. Johnston Endowment: Graduate Scholarship

James R. Johnston was the first member of the Nova Scotia African Canadian Community to graduate in Law from Dalhousie University in 1898 and he played a very active public, professional and community role throughout his short life. The James Robinson Johnston Graduate Scholarship is supported by the Endowment for the James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies, which was established in July 1996 "...to bring Black culture, reality, perspectives, experiences and concerns into the Academy". In the spirit of James Robinson Johnston, who believed that the best interests of African Canadians would be served through education, Dalhousie University each year offers a renewable graduate level scholarship to a promising African Canadian student. These students have the opportunity to pursue studies at the graduate level in the arts, sciences, health professions, management, law, dentistry, and medicine.

Nova Scotia Black and First Nations

Dalhousie University offers entrance scholarships valued at $15,000 each, awarded annually to a First Nations and an Indigenous Black student entering a Dalhousie graduate program for the first time following graduation from a Dalhousie University undergraduate program. The objective of these scholarships is to increase the representation of Indigenous Black and First Nations communities in the university's wide diversity of graduate programs, and ultimately in the academy and in advanced professional occupations. The graduate program may be at the Master's or Doctoral level, and may include professional, course-based or thesis-based programs.

Dr. P. Anthony Johnstone Memorial Bursary Fund

The donors established this fund in 1994 to honour the memory of Dr. P. Anthony (Tony) Johnstone (1931-1989), scholar, educator and Director of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, 1985-1989. It is used to assist a humanities or social science graduate student who has a record of interest and involvement in social justice and human rights.

Vitamin Scholarship

The Vitamin Scholarship was established for activities related to vitamin products (including vitamins A, B1, B2 B3, B4, B5, B6 B8, B9, B12, C, E, H, beta carotene, canthazanthin, methionine, and products containing or derived from vitamins, including animals that consumed vitamins) such as food and nutritional research or education, food related programs, and/or consumer services or consumer protection activities.

Emerging Funds

Phi Kappa Pi - Joe Ghiz Award Fund

Joe Ghiz was born in Charlottetown, PEI in 1945. He received both his Bachelor of Commerce and Law degrees from Dalhousie University and went on to take his Masters of Law from Harvard University. He became president of the Prince Edward Island Liberal Party in 1977 and then party leader in 1981. He was elected premier in 1986 and 1989. In 1994 he resigned from the Legislative assembly to take on the position as Dean of Law at Dalhousie University.

Once sufficient funds have been pledged to the Phi Kappa Pi - Joe Ghiz award fund it is anticipated to support students in the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Dalhousie University. The supported student(s) would be at the Masters or Doctoral level with first-class standing in the last two years. The award recipients will have to demonstrate both community life involvement and university life involvement through a letter.

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