The University of Victoria Andy Farquharson Teaching Excellence Award for Graduate Students will be presented to up to three Graduate students who are Teaching Assistants involved in teaching activities at UVic during the preceding 12 months. The awards will be presented at the Teaching Excellence Awards Ceremony on February 6, 2014.

Nomination packages are due to the Faculty of Graduate Studies, Office of the Dean by November 1, 2013 and can be found here.

The three national funding agencies, NSERC, SSHRC and CIHR, have harmonized at the Master's level to become part of the same online system and to have the same national deadline of December 1, 2013.  The newly harmonized application and customized Commin CV template for the Canada Graduate Scholarship Program at the Master’s level are now live on the Research Portal http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ResearchPortal-PortailDeRecherche/Instructions-Instructions/index_eng.asp.

Andy Farquharson Teaching Excellence Award for Graduate Students

The Andy Farquharson Teaching Excellence Award for Graduate Students were awarded to the winners at a ceremony on Tuesday, February 5, 2013.

This year's winners were selected from a pool of 15 nominees from across campus. Up to three awards are given out annually and are for registered graduate students who have excelled in their teaching during the preceding calendar year.

This year's award recipients are (L-R): Scott Kouri, MA student (CYC); Jessica Blythe, PhD student (GEOG); and Iman Moazzen, PhD student (ELEC).

Tara Paterson — University of Victoria student, devoted community volunteer, ardent activist and former students’ society chair — is heading to the University of Oxford next October as UVic’s newest Rhodes Scholar. Paterson, 23, is the 2013 Rhodes Scholar for BC. The postgraduate awards, which cover all travel, living and study expenses at the British university, are each valued at more than $100,000.

Tara is in her final year of an honours degree in Women’s Studies and Political Science at the University of Victoria where she was also Chairperson of the Students’ Society. Her passion for social justice has driven her studies and activism. Interested in issues of sexual and reproductive health and rights, Tara has held positions with several international and local organizations.

Read more about Tara Paterson in the Media Release from UVic Communications here.

Read more about the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship here at http://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk and the Rhodes Scholarship in Canada here at http://www.canadianrhodes.org