Robert P. Knowles Scholarship

Open to students entering or continuing full-time graduate studies in a Master’s or PhD program engaged in research to develop or apply methods to create, identify or select superior forage, cereal, oilseed, or pulse crops for commercial agriculture. Preference will be given to students whose research proposal includes outdoor field research activity. Students who have completed all their undergraduate studies at the University of Saskatchewan have the option of pursuing postgraduate work at any approved university in Canada or the United States.

• Applicants must be Canadian citizens and have resided in Canada for a minimum of five years.
• Applicants must also have graduated with an undergraduate degree from a Canadian university and obtained a high academic standing (80% minimum cumulative GPA).
  
  Master’s students shall not receive funding beyond the 36th month of the start of their program of studies; direct-entry PhD students and transfer PhD students shall not receive funding beyond the 60th month of the start of their program of studies (the start of the program of studies for transfer PhD students shall be when they are first registered in their 994 course).