Polar Student Scholarship Applications Now Open

POLAR offers three scholarships for students in northern studies, in cooperation with Canadian Northern Studies Trust:

The POLAR scholarship ($10,000) is awarded to an outstanding doctoral student at a Canadian university, whose thesis topic is interdisciplinary, and who is willing to communicate research results in a major forum.

The POLAR Northern Resident Scholarship (4 awards of $10,000) supports full-time graduate students who are long-term residents of Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon, or the Provincial North, and are doing research for a thesis or equivalent project.

The POLAR Northern Resident Award (8 awards of $5,000) supports full-time or part-time college or university undergraduate students who are long-term residents of Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon, or the Provincial North. 

The application period for these awards opens on October 15th, 2018, and closes on January 31st, 2019. More information is available on the ACUNS website.