COSMOS International Graduate Travel Award

The Fisheries Centre is pleased to announce an annual ~$5,000 travel award endowed by Dr. Daniel Pauly and The University of British Columbia for a deserving international graduate student who needs support for research/field work to be conducted in the student’s region or country of origin. Proposal submission deadline is February 1 of each year.

Cecil and Kathleen Morrow Scholarship

The Fisheries Centre awards this as a travel research scholarship to the student making the best academic proposal for travel for research work using techniques developed at the Fisheries Centre, and has awarded this Scholarship annually between 2001 and 2008, except in 2006.  The application deadline is April 15 each year.  

UBC’s endowments experienced a 20% value loss in 2008/09 due to the ongoing world financial crisis.  The Board of Governors voted on February 5, 2009 to implement a plan as of April 1 to recoup the combined spending deficit and value loss over the next 10 years so that all funds will be back on a solid footing by 2019.  This included a drop in the endowment spending rate from 5% to 3.5% of the three-year average market value.  The effect on the Cecil and Kathleen Morrow Scholarship for 2009W was a reduction in the amount of the award to $400 and no applications were received.  With continuing low returns, it was decided to postpone award of this scholarship until 2012W, in order to increase the available amount to about $1000. The next round of competition will therefore close April 15, 2012.