CAGS/PROQUEST Distinguished Dissertation Awards
Complete nomination packages (as outlined in the CAGS-PROQUEST Checklist below) must be submitted to GPS Graduate Funding via gradcomp.gps [at] mcgill.ca and entered on FAD by the deadline indicated below.
To be eligible, dissertations must be disseminated in full text format via the ProQuest Dissertation & Thesis Global database (PQDT Global), prior to jury selection. Upload instructions may be found here on the ProQuest webpage
Each unit is limited to one nomination per discipline category. Units are responsible for determining their own internal deadlines for student documentation. Nominees must have submitted the final copy of their dissertation during the previous calendar year.
Deadline
03 March 2025
Discipline Categories
Each unit is limited to one recommended application per discipline category.
- Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
- Engineering, Medical Sciences, and Natural Sciences
Required Forms & Tools
ADESAQ
Prix D'excellence de L'Association des doyennes et des doyens des études supérieures au Québec (ADESAQ)
Complete Nomination packages (as outlined in the ADESAQ checklist below) must be submitted to GPS Graduate Funding via gradcomp.gps [at] mcgill.ca and entered on FAD by the deadline indicated below.
Each unit is limited to one nomination per discipline category. McGill may only make one nomination per category to the agency. Nominees must have submitted the final copy of their dissertation during the previous calendar year.
Deadline
03 March 2025
Discipline Categories
Each unit is limited to one recommended application per discipline category.
- Natural Sciences/Engineering
- Health Science
- Humanities/Social Science
Required Forms & Tools
Link to share with unit's nominee: McGill's Dissertation Awards information page for students
Council of Graduate Schools (CGS/UMI) ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards
Complete nomination package must be submitted to GPS Graduate Funding via email to gradcomp.gps [at] mcgill.ca and entered on FAD by the deadline indicated below. Each unit is limited to one nomination per discipline category.
The effective date of the degree awarded, or the completion of doctoral degree requirements and dissertation(final corrected copies of the Ph.D. thesis submission), must lie in the period of July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2025.
Deadline
10 June Unit submits to GPS
Discipline Categories
Each unit is limited to one recommended application per discipline category.
- Biological Sciences/Life Sciences: biology; botany; zoology; ecology; embryology; entomology; genetics; nutrition; plant pathology; plant physiology; anatomy; biochemistry; biophysics; microbiology; pathology; pharmacology; physiology; and related fields. Also included are agriculture, forestry, and related fields.
- Humanities and Fine Arts: history; philosophy; language; linguistics; literature; archaeology; jurisprudence; the history, theory and criticism of the arts; ethics; comparative religion; and those aspects of the social sciences that employ historical or philosophical approaches.
- If a dissertation is multi- or interdisciplinary in nature, a significant portion of the work must be comprised by at least one of the 2025 fields of competition.
Required Forms & Tools
- CGS Reviewer Checklist
- Nomination Form (submit as separate document "CGS-UMI-2023-Nomination-NomineeNAME-DEPT.pdf" along with application attached to same email message.)
- McGill's Dissertation Awards information page for students
- Council of Graduate Schools (detailed instructions for "Materials" and "Criteria")
Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Doctoral Dissertation and Master's Thesis Awards
Each unit is limited to one doctoral and one master's nomination. Nominations to be entered on FAD and complete nomination packages to be submitted to GPS Graduate Funding via email to gradcomp.gps [at] mcgill.ca by the deadline indicated below. Complete package in one single PDF file.
Deadline
12 December 2024
Eligibility
- Eligible Master's Thesis 2024-Nominees must have received the master's degree within three years preceding the year of competition. Therefore, people who completed all requirements for the degree after January 1, 2022.
- Eligible Doctoral Dissertation 2024- Nominees must have received the doctoral degree within five years preceding the year of competition. Therefore, people who completed all requirements for the degree after January 1, 2020.
Discipline Categories
- Eligible Master's Thesis 2025- Agricultural, Biological & Health
- Eligible Doctoral Dissertation 2025- Arts & Humanities
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