Brain and Mind Institute

Western International Graduate Student Awards

The Brain and Mind Institute (BMI) at Western University is pleased to announce a continued funding opportunity that would support up to 4 international graduate students by helping to offset the differential in international (as compared to domestic) tuition and fees. 

The Brain and Mind Institute is seeking MSc or PhD applicants in psychology, neuroscience, medical biophysics, or another related discipline for 2016-2017. The BMI brings together 33 Principal Investigators from areas across cognitive neuroscience including memory, motor control, infant and child development, consciousness, music, perception, emotion, and language. These groups study function in the healthy brain, and how this is altered by acquired, developmental, or progressive brain injury, and have strong ongoing collaborations with local hospitals. The institute has state-of-the-art research facilities, including North America’s first Siemens Prisma 3T MRI scanner, 7T MRI, TMS, EEG, body tracking and sleep laboratories, non-human primate electrophysiology and imaging, and supercomputing. It is situated on the attractive and dynamic campus of Western University, one of Canada’s largest, with excellent recreational and social opportunities. Graduate students enjoy diverse training, and are part of a strong community on campus.

Potential applicants will need to contact one or more prospective advisors at BMI to discuss possibilities. In order to qualify, applications for study must be made to the Psychology, Neuroscience, Medical Biophysics, or another graduate program within this year. 

Students from outside Canada will be eligible to apply for one of four Western International Graduate Student Awards at a maximum individual value of $15,000 per year (up to 2 years for Masters program and up to 4 years for PhD program).  This scholarship is available to students supervised by a Principal Investigator at the Brain and Mind Institute.  Students should discuss nomination for this scholarship with their potential supervisor.

To apply, the nominating BMI supervisor must submit the following items by email to the IGSS Review Committee at bmiwestern@uwo.ca:

1) student name
2) graduate program applied for
3) degree level (MSc/PhD)
4) status of application to graduate program
5) in 1-2 paragraphs, explain why the student has been nominated 
6) a pdf of the nominated student's complete application submitted to SGPS

The deadline for the first round of applications is February 29, 2016. Offer letters will be released by mid March for this initial round. Applications will continue to be accepted up to April 1, 2016, with the remaining offer letters available by mid April.

All inquiries about the application process may be forwarded to bmiwestern@uwo.ca. 

To view past International Graduate Student Scholarship recipients, please click here