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That's awesome! I'm apartment hunting in late June and planning on moving up mid-August. Great to know someone else in a similar situation. I look forward to seeing you around the IHPST!

Letters have arrived in St. John's, NL today. I received the 3-year CGS valued at $35K/annum! My status: I'm just finishing up my Masters of Philosophy in Humanities (M. Phil) at Memorial University with a 4.0/4.0 GPA. I had no publications and only one un-refereed conference presentation at the time of application. I think that's kind-of understandable considering that my undergrad was in (electrical) Engineering, so something would be wrong if I could switch and publish right away. I had two great supervisor's references (both in the philosophy department) and a very great reference from my head of department (humanities). I'm doing Science and Technology Studies (or History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, depending on your tastes) and I've been accepted to the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto (who won a - virtual - coin toss over York's STS program). My program of study was dealing with changes in power system infrastructure in Canada in the Large Technical Systems research tradition - mostly related to history and technology policy. My score was 18.8 and I had a SSHRC for the second year of my Masters. Sorry if that's TMI. I'm often curious what other's are researching and what kinds of program of study are getting funded this year. Hopefully it might help figure out where you stand. At the very least it might distract you from worrying for a few seconds. Good luck all.

What area are you studying? I applied (and was accepted) to both York and uToronto this year, so I'm wondering about the comparable programs.

Yah, I'm in the good-bad position of having an acceptance offer from my second choice university (thought it's still a fantastic program) which has a deadline of March 18 for my decision. I'm really trying not to e-mail my first choice to ask if anything is going to come before then, but since the deadline is only a week away I feel like I'm going to have to do so. If I'm not going to hear back for a couple of weeks from my first choice then I might be forced to accept my second. I'd really like to know, as I don't like the idea of making someone wait on a wait-list any longer than they have too. I'm giving it until Friday afternoon and then I'm going to send a polite question. I mean, they should be aware of this, as it's a pretty specialized program (Science and Technology Studies / History and Philosophy of Science) which really has only two major Canadian universities which are both in Toronto. They have to be expecting this, right?

Hi all, I've been lurking this forum for months while waiting for my SSHRC masters funding to work out. Yesterday (July 8) I received notification that I have received one of the Bombardier CGS scholarships. The letter was dated July 5 and I am located in Newfoundland. My research area is Science and Technology Studies. So, if anyone else is waiting for a CGS masters scholarship: hope is not lost! Cheers,