Award type:
Scholarships/awards
Award description:
A scholarship, valued at $1,500, will be awarded annually to a full-time undergraduate student enrolled in Year Two, Three, or Four of any program in the Faculty of Arts or Faculty of Mathematics. Selection is based on academic achievement (minimum 80% cumulative average), combined with a demonstrated interest in the area of computational rhetoric, computational analysis and/or generation of rhetorical concepts and/or persuasive text. Computational rhetoric is a field at the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP), persuasion, and stylistics, pioneered at the University of Waterloo by Professor Chrysanne Di Marco, her students, and her collaborators. Interested students should familiarize themselves with the relevant literature, including the works of Di Marco and Professor Randy Harris and must submit an application outlining their interest in computational rhetoric by October 15. This fund is made possible by a donation from alumnus Sam Pasupalak (BCS ’12), in honour of Professor Chrysanne DiMarco’s excellent teaching, mentorship, and for her significant support of Sam’s research.
Value:
$1,500
Eligibility & selection criteria:
- 80% cumulative average
- demonstrated interest in the area of computational rhetoric, computational analysis and/or generation of rhetorical concepts and/or persuasive text
- applicants should familiarize themselves with the relevant literature, including the works of Di Marco and Randy Harris
Level:
Year Two, Year Three, Year Four
Program:
Arts→Accounting and Financial Mgmt, Anthropology, Arts and Business, Classical Studies, Communication Arts, Economics, English Language and Literature, Fine Arts, French Studies, Gender and Social Justice, Germanic and Slavic Studies, Global Business and Digital Arts, History, International Trade (minor), Liberal Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Peace and Conflict Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sexuality, Marriage and Family Studies, Social Development Studies, Sociology and Legal Studies, Spanish and Latin American Studies; Mathematics→Actuarial Science, Applied Mathematics, Bioinformatics, Business and CS (Double Degree), Business and Math (Double Degree), Combinatorics and Optimization, Computational Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology Mgmt, Math/Fin.Analysis and Risk Mgmt, Mathematical Economics, Mathematical Finance, Mathematical Optimization, Mathematical Physics, Mathematics, Mathematics/CPA, Mathematics/Business Admin, Mathematics/Teaching, Pure Mathematics, Scientific Computation/Applied Mathematics, Statistics
Citizenship:
Canadian citizen/permanent resident, International/study permit student
Selection process:
Application required
Term:
Fall
Application details:
- Complete the applicable term Undergraduate Award Application
- At this time we are only accepting applications for awards with a Winter deadline (January - April).
- Access the Winter Term Undergraduate Award Application on our Undergraduate Studies Form page.
- The application for awards with deadlines in a future term will be available by the start of that term – please check back later.
- Complete a separate application for each award you wish to be considered for.
Application deadline:
October 15
Contact:
- Student Awards & Financial Aid
- safainfo@uwaterloo.ca
- The Centre, Needles Hall
