From: D.Grant Allen
To: Chairs and Directors
Cc: Chairs and Directors - Supplementary List
Subject: Finanicial Support for Summer Student Research Positions
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Please circulate to all faculty in your Department. I hope you can encourage some to participate in this since it is a great help to our students seeking international experience. In the past some Departments have also added direct support.
The Faculty is offering support of 50% of the salary for up to 15 summer research students that our faculty employ through the International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE) program.
As most of you know, the IAESTE program has been providing international exchange opportunities for students in their field of study for over 50 years. Details can be found in the attached cover letter and employer brochure
and at http://www.queensu.ca/iaeste/ .
Participation in this will attract excellent students to work in your research group this summer, enhance our international reputation and also allow more of our students to work abroad in research groups. I know from
personal experience that our Faculty has had several excellent students work here over the years and our students have also benefited from exchanges.
Our participation as an employer has been quite low (i.e. about 5) in the recent past and I understand that so far there are at least 15 of our students who are applying to do exchanges and so we need to provide more
positions here to help them.
We need to act quickly to get the best students so, if you are interested, please fill out the attached Employer form and send it off to Ginny Arnold (Canada@iaeste.org) , along with a copy to vicedean@ecf.utoronto.ca as soon
as possible. Ms. Arnold leaves for the exchange conference January 20. Though it will be possible to submit an offer after that, getting it to that conference provides the best chance of getting the best students and helping our students the most.
Most offers are for 8-12 weeks during the summer and the typical pay is $1400 to $1500 a month, with the Faculty covering half of this. It would be great if you can consider hiring even just one of these students in your group this summer.
Thanks.
Grant Allen
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D. Grant Allen, Ph.D. P.Eng. FCIC, FAAAS
Vice-Dean (Undergraduate)
Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering &
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry,
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Phone: (416) 978-8517, Email: dgrant.allen@utoronto.ca
www.chem-eng.utoronto.ca/facultystaff/profs/allen.htm
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