<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; "><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5px; border-collapse: collapse; ">The UBC Department of Computer Science is offering Merit Awards, in the amount of $10,000 each, to outstanding incoming students in several areas including programming languages and software engineering.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5px; border-collapse: collapse; "></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5px; border-collapse: collapse; ">These awards are granted to the most exceptional applicants and are </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">given on top of a guaranteed full package of financial support, which the department offers to all of its graduate students. All students applying to the MSc and PhD programs will be automatically considered. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5px; border-collapse: collapse; ">For more information, please visit:</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5px; border-collapse: collapse; "> </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5px; border-collapse: collapse; "><a href="http://www.cs.ubc.ca/prospective/grad/grad_welcome.shtml" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">http://www.cs.ubc.ca/prospective/grad/grad_welcome.shtml</a></span></div></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><br></body></html>