Your monthly source for graduate school-related news, events, and resources from across our three campuses

🔔Need to know

• Important dates
• Graduating in November 2021?
• Meet Prof. Vina Goghari, SGS's new Vice-Dean, Research and Program Innovation
• Read the Accessibility Services Graduate and Professional Program Handbook
• Call for members: 2021-22 Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC)
• Oct 22: Graduate Supervision Challenges and Best Practices

💸Finances & Funding

• What is a minimum degree fee?
• Apply for the SGS Sponsorship Fund
• Apply for a Fall 2021 SGS Research Travel Grant
• Apply for a Fall 2021 SGS Conference Grant
• Apply today: Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's Program(CGS-M)-2022
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) 2022-23 application opens mid-October
• Master's Completion Bursary (for students beyond program length)
• NSERC Student Ambassadors
• NSERC Indigenous Student Ambassadors
• Hugh C. Morris Experiential Learning Fellowship
• OSAP repayment and maintaining interest-free status
• UTAPS: Out-of-province students - apply online now!
• Award for scholarly achievement in the area of gender-based violence

🍎Staying Well & Connected

• Coping skills workshops for October
• Wednesdays in October: Mindfulness through creative writing
• Healing with Yoga weekly sessions
• Family Care Office events
• Join Grad Minds for some outdoor time at the Evergreen Brickworks
• Grad Escape: Coffee and Crafts series
• Oct 14: How to tackle impostor syndrome
• Oct 21: Intro to Anti-Oppression Practices (workshop)

📚Resources & Supports

• Financial advising at SGS: Book a time to speak with one of our advisors
• Explore library workshops this term
• Peer support: For grad students by grad students!
• Refine your writing with the Graduate Centre for Academic Communication (GCAC)
• Accountability Group: Managing Mondays and Follow-up Fridays
• Accessibility Services: Return to Campus Transition Series
• Grad Step Up - Navigating U of T Resources
• Q&A sessions: Working in Canada
• English pronunciation drop-in classes

📆Events & Opportunities

• Apply now: Student Advisory Committee on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Share feedback about your experience with Enrolment Services by Oct 7
• Register now: Graduate Professional Development Conference at UTM
• Register now: Canadian Career Symposium for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
• Career exploration workshops
• Launching the Black Founders Network at U of T
• Launching the Black Research Network at U of T
• Oct 7: World Cultures Trivia with the UTGSU Race and Ethnicity Caucus (REC)
• Oct 8: Artist Talk-The Language of Hip-Hop
• Oct 8 & 27: Financial literacy workshops
• Oct 12: Making connections with an intercultural lens
• Oct 13 & 14: Focus groups for international students
• Bridge Club: Weekly Play
• Virtual Producers' Circle
• Dinner Conversation: Food for Thought
• Global Chatter Hour
• Panel discussions - Plastics!
• Call for submissions: U(t)-Mathazine
• Oct 25 to 29: Learning abroad fair (virtual)