NSERC Undergraduate Research Fellowship | Undergraduate Program | Department of Chemistry | Faculty of Science

Each year the University of Waterloo is awarded a specific number of NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards. These fellowships enable undergraduate students to spend a term (Summer, Fall, or Winter) doing research in world-class laboratories supervised by experts in their field. Undergraduate students from other Canadian Universities are especially invited to apply.

The deadline for the Summer 2010 competition is Monday, February 9, 2010. Please submit your completed application to Bev Winkler in C2-280.

The University of Waterloo requires students to have better than an 80% average to be eligible for this program. A program guide and overview showing NSERC eligibility criteria of this award are available at the NSERC web site.

Once a student establishes that he/she is eligible they should then browse for a Chemistry Professor whose research matches their interests. The student and the professor will put together a research project which will be included in the professor’s portion of the application. The student’s salary will amount to $1,625-$1,725/month depending on the student’s seniority. These awards are distributed to the applicants in decreasing order of merit.

External applicants will need to supply a transcript from their home University.

Some key changes to this year's competition are as follows:

there is no requirement that students applying for a USRA must be enrolled full-time in their program to be eligible to apply.
hand-written applications are no longer acceptable. Students and proposed supervisors must fill out the electronic form directly from NSERC's website (a pdf fillable form is no longer available on the GSO website). Prior year's forms are not acceptable. Students and proposed supervisors are to fill out the electronic form directly from NSERC's website at http://www.nserc.ca/forms/formtable_e.htm by selecting Login to the system or Register as a New User. Once completed, Part I and Part II of Form 202 must be printed, signed, and submitted through the Chemistry Department. Filling out the form on-line will not transmit it electronically to NSERC.

Part II will be completed and submitted by the prospective supervisor.

NSERC Undergraduate Research Fellowships