BHSc (Honours) Program Summer Research Scholarships

General Information

Ten Scholarships valued at $2,000 each (The number and value of scholarships may vary each year).

Application Deadline: Refer to the BHSc Private folder on LearnLink towards the end of January/early February for deadline date.

It is the applicant's responsibility to negotiate a summer research position with a faculty member at a McMaster University affiliated institution (ie. other McMaster University Faculities, St. Joseph's Hospital, Cancer Centre and Hamilton Health Sciences which includes: McMaster Medical Centre, Hamilton General, Henderson and Chedoke).

Scholarship Guidelines and Eligibility Criteria

• Faculty member must be prepared to match the $2,000 funding
• Faculty member must be located at a McMaster University affiliated institution (as described above)
• 10 week summer work term
• Level I, II and III B.H.Sc. (Honours) students may apply (Level IV students are ineligible)
• Scholarship recipients will be required to complete a form with their supervisor to ensure that the summer research/project has received biosafety/research ethics board approval (this form will be available once we have selected the scholarship recipients)
• If you are applying for an NSERC Undergraduate Scholarship, you may also apply for a BHSc Summer Research Scholarship. If you are a recipient of an NSERC Undergraduate Scholarship, you will not be considered for the BHSc Summer Research Scholarship. You may retain one summer research scholarship.
• Level I applicants must have a 9.5 minimum sessional average from Term 1 to apply for this scholarship. Levels II and III applicants must have a 9.5 minimum cumulative average in order to apply for this scholarship.
• Applicants will be notified of the results in early to mid April

Scholarship Application Procedure

Submit the following documents:

• Resume with your signature
• One page that includes:
  
  i) The research supervisor's name, telephone number, email address and department
  
  ii) The proposed start and end date of summer research (minimum 10 weeks)
• An outline of the proposed research project which specifies your role/responsibilities (to be completed with supervisor)
• Agreement statement prepared and signed by the research supervisor indicating their commitment to match the $2,000 scholarship funding
• Original transcript