EDUCATION - Distinctions, Scholarships and Grants
   

EDUCATION

2004
PhD. McGill University, Montreal, Canda.
Supervisors: Andrew Gonzalez (andrew.gonzalez@mcgill.ca) and Raja Sengupta (raja.sengupta@mcgill.ca).
2003

Undergraduate. Major: Biologist. Facultad de Ciencias (Science Faculty), UNAM, Mexico.
Thesis: Diet and habitat use of the bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis mexicana) and the mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus sheldoni) in Tiburon Island, Sonora, Mexico.
Thesis advisor: Dr. Rodrigo Medellín (medellin@miranda.ecologia.unam.mx)

1998
Academic exchange with McGill University, Montreal, Canada
1995
International Baccalaureate Diploma, Greengates School, Mexico

Mexico City

DISTINCTIONS, SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS

2008
November. Global Environmental and Climate change Centre (GEC3) Graduate Student Stipend Total amount CAN$4,000
2008
November. Tapir Preservation Fund. Winning project of the month. Total amount: US$40
2008
September. Tapir Specialist Group Conservation Fund. Total amount: US$1,000
2008
April. Tapir Preservation Fund. Winning project of the month. Total amount: US$110
2007
September Winning Club Tapir Project US$320
2007
October. Winning Club Tapir Project US$640
2006
Grant-in-Aid of Research. Grants-in-Aid Committee of the American Society of Mammalogists US$1,500
2005
Equipment Donnation by IDEA WILD
2004
Winner of the Academic Excellence Contest (“Concurso de Excelencia Academica Bernardo Villa”) given to the best undergraduate thesis. VII National Mammalogy Congress of the Mexican Mammalogy Association (AMMAC-Asociación Mexicana de Mastozoología, A.C.)
2004
Neotropical Option Fellowship-McGill University - Declined
2004
CONACYT Fellowship for Graduate Studies (2004-2009). Mexican Government.
2001
Grant given by Wildlife Trust (WT) for a "Training Course for Conservation Genetics for Field Biologists", CERC, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.
1998
Scholarship given by the Fundación-UNAM Program " Recognition to outstanding students for studies in foreign countries". McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Last update: Sept. 9, 2009


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