MelanieW

Just got results, committee 194, I got a CGS-D!

I think 168 is currently in progress! I am 168 and still have not heard. 

Mine is W! So close to the end of the line... but really hoping for results today! 

I haven't heard personally that anyone at U of T was informed from the school. I honestly have not tried to ask them though. Figured they were busy enough. 

I just received my PGS-D award! Selection committee 187 (Cellular and Molecular Biology)

Some information about me:
0 peer-reviewed contributions (literally not a single paper publication) 14 non-peer-reviewed contributions (1 database, 1 neural decoding algorithm, 12 conferences mostly provincial and international with some local) My project is really cool and highly inter-disciplinary and collaborative (broadly neuroscience but touches epigenetics, stem cell-related molecular and cellular neuroscience, electrophysiology, systems neuroscience, and computational neuroscience). My undergraduate and graduate level education all contributed a lot to my current project (undergrad in Physiology and Genetics with a strong focus in neurophysiology and stem cells, while also taking computer science courses throughout, neuroepigenetics lab research) Won a prestigious national AI case competition in a field I was unfamiliar with 3 months prior to the competition (Natural language processing and sentiment detection in scientific language to classify and organize scientific articles) I'm also highly involved in my community with a strong emphasis in scientific communication (science rendezvous, lets talk science, publish lay articles, teach high school students science, present at seniors home, podcasts) Involved in research institute student body as well as graduate student society. Through this, I helped organize an institute-wide research retreat. Developed an open access database and currently working on another one for scientific data from my lab.
You can get an award without publications!

Committee 169, I got a PGS-D! Good luck to everyone else who is waiting!!! ?

You'd really think that for such a large organization they'd be able to automate the results. 
Any comp sci people should write that as a proposal, "I will fix your crap website and stop giving grad students heart attacks"

If ANY of you can focus on work right now, you're a superhuman. I'm sitting here with a coffee staring nervously at my laptop screen refreshing every 5 minutes. Aaaaaaaaahhhhhh

The NSERC scholarships office:


 

I still haven’t gotten mine either. I think it’s two working days so I guess wait till end of Monday to email.

I am still waiting too! It will come eventually!

I wonder why they don't just send out an email to all the applicants if they know they are delayed. It would save a lot of time as compared to answering every student individually.

Word on the street is that my department at UofT has received the list of winners from NSERC. Can they just give us poor students the results already?