This year 12 will be offered, each for one year only . They are assigned to departments based on a formula that takes into account the amount of fellowships money and the quantity of graduate students in any given unit. Comparative figures for recruiting fellowships from other Canadian universities are sobering. The FGSR awards approximately 80 McGill Major fellowships each year, many of which are renewable. They are only available to students who are already enrolled at McGill.
Selection is done in conjunction with applications for the research council fellowships.
These travel funds are available three times a year to graduate students who are presenting papers at conferences. This past winter, FGSR and the Post-Graduate Students' Society have decided to merge their travel funds and revise the criteria for acceptability to try to encompass as wide a range of students as possible. In the winter contest, all applicants were funded. Deadline for the spring contest is April 15, 1998. The Future FGSR is working on a Five-Year Student Funding Plan to document and augment graduate student funding.