Award type:
Scholarships/awards
Affiliation:
Black, Indigenous
Award description:
Two awards, valued at $5,000 each, will be provided annually to Black or Indigenous undergraduate students enrolled in Year Two, Three, or Four of any co-op program in the Faculty of Mathematics, with a preference to Actuarial Science students. For the purpose of this award, an Indigenous person is one who is a citizen or member of a First Nations community (Status/Non-Status), Métis, and/or Inuit. For the purpose of this award, Black students may include African, Afro-Caribbean, Black Canadian, Afro-Latine, African American, Afro-Indigenous, or other African descent. Selection will be based on academic achievement (minimum 70% cumulative average) combined with extracurricular involvement. Candidates must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents. Interested students should submit an online application by November 1st. This fund is made possible by a donation from co-op employer, RGA Life Reinsurance Company of Canada (RGA), who is committed to removing barriers for Black and Indigenous students.
Value description:
Two awards valued at $5,000 each
Eligibility & selection criteria:
- Black or Indigenous students enrolled in Year Two, Three, or Four of any co-op Mathematics program
- preference to Actuarial Science
- minimum 70% cumulative average
- extracurricular involvement
- must be Canadian Citizens or permanent residents
Level:
Year Two, Year Three, Year Four
Program:
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
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 Fall deadline (September - December).
- Access the Fall 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:
November 1
Contact:
- Student Awards & Financial Aid
- safainfo@uwaterloo.ca
- The Centre, Needles Hall
