A Free Event for Families with Children up to 5 years old
Kits Neighbourhood House, UBC Student Housing & Hospitality Services will host this event that features Immigrant Support Services, Information on Health, Safety, Child Care, Free Vision Check for 3 year olds, story time, music, face painting and crafts for tots.
Presenting a lecture by the recipient of the 2012 Pollay Prize, honouring intellectual excellence on marketing in the public interest:
Dr. Madhubalan Viswanthan, Professor of Business Administration, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, takes a bottom-up, in-depth view of subsistence-level communities. His pioneering, decade-long research provides unique insights into how low literacy and low income affect the way people think, feel, and build relationships in marketplaces. He will discuss how these insights help design solutions and create enterprises in subsistence market places.
Friday, March 30, 2012
3:30 – 5:00pm
Sauder School of Business, DL 125
Open Attendance
On March 5, the Business Development Bank of Canada launched the 2012 BDC Young Entrepreneur Award contest with a bold new format. We are inviting Canadian entrepreneurs, aged 18 to 35, to apply and compete for our $100,000 BDC Grand Prize for Innovation.
Young business owners have until April 8, 2012 to apply and submit a short video presenting an innovative project that will grow and improve their business. Eleven finalists will be selected- one from each province and one from the combined territories (Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut). Once finalists have been selected, Canadians will vote for the winner of the $100,000 BDC Grand Prize for Innovation.
For more details and to apply, visit our special 2012 Young Entrepreneur Award microsite at bdcyoungentrepreneuraward.ca or join us on Facebook at facebook.com/BDC.ca.
Young entrepreneurs can also follow BDC on Twitter at @BDC_News or on Linkedin to share news about the contest with other members of their network.
Guest Speaker: Rohan Hazelton, VP Finance at Goldcorp
Date: Thursday, April 26th, 2012
When: 12:30 – 2:00pm
Where: HA 132
Please RSVP by clicking on the following link: http://bit.ly/yayGGW
Rohan will be joining us to talk about his experience at Goldcorp, industry trends, metal price forecasts, and finance roles within a mining company. He will provide a presentation, followed by Q&A.
Rohan Hazelton is a Chartered Accountant with over 15 years of finance experience, 10 of those years at senior positions within the mining industry. Currently, Mr. Hazelton is Vice President Finance at Goldcorp Inc. where he is responsible for, amongst other duties, Goldcorp’s sales programs. He was formerly Corporate Controller for Goldcorp Inc., prior to Goldcorp Inc.’s merger with Wheaton River Minerals Ltd, he was a key member of Wheaton’s management team. Mr. Hazelton previously worked for Deloitte & Touche LLP and Arthur Andersen LLP. and was a commercial loans officer for Dialog Bank Moscow, Russia. Mr. Hazelton has a B.A. in Math and Economics from Harvard University.
Faculty, staff, students and other interested people are invited and encouraged to attend the following open forums:
Candidates have been asked to address, in about 15 minutes, the following:
Presentations will be followed by questions.
Forum participants are encouraged to provide their feedback. Feedback forms will be distributed at the forums and other meetings. Candidates’ CVs, and feedback forms are available from the Provost and Vice President Academic Office by contacting Pamela Moffett (pamela.moffett@ubc.ca;
604-827-4072) or Kate Carr (kate.carr@ubc.ca; 604-822-1288).
Note – it is not necessary to RSVP for these sessions.
The UBC Sustainability Initiative (USI) is proud to once again sponsor ten graduate students currently enrolled in Masters or PhD programs at UBC Vancouver to work with the City of Vancouver to advance Vancouver’s greenest city goals. The Greenest City Scholars Program is open to UBC graduate students from all academic disciplines and runs from early May to August 2012. The USI will provide funding to successful candidates to work with the City in support of the Greenest City 2020 Action Plan.
Applications are due by 4 pm on March 21st 2012.
For more information on specific research projects and to apply, visit: http://www.sustain.ubc.ca/greenestcityscholars
On behalf of Dean Daniel F. Muzyka, we invite you to join us for a special Student Celebration & BBQ at the Sauder School of Business and Robert H. Lee Graduate School.
Wednesday April 4, 2012
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m
Remarks at 12:30 p.m.
CA Hall, Henry Angus Building
Do you have a great story about the Dean? Submit your stories and we’ll display them at the event.
Click here to RSVP before Friday March 30, 2012
Please note that you must pre-register in order to attend this event.
**The MBA/ECM Programs Office received notice of the Sauder Student Celebration & BBQ this afternoon, therefore adjustments to the exam schedule could not be made and for that we apologize. If you’re able to make it, the event is a good break from studying!
To: All members of the Sauder School of Business – faculty, staff, students
From: David H. Farrar, Provost and Vice President Academic
I am pleased to announce that the following individuals have accepted an invitation from the President’s Advisory Committee to interview for the position of Dean of the Sauder School of Business:
Robert Helsley
Professor and Chair in Real Estate Development
Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Arvind Rangaswamy
Senior Associate Dean for Research and Faculty
Smeal College of Business, The Pennsylvania State University
Kent L. Womack
Professor of Finance and Manulife Chair in Financial Services
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Itineraries are being scheduled that will include individual and group meetings with faculty, staff, undergraduate and graduate students, Faculty Advisory Board members, and members of the University’s senior administration. Each candidate will make a presentation at a forum, open to staff, faculty members, students and other interested people. The presentation will be followed by a question period. The dates, venues and other details will follow as quickly as possible.
This is a reminder regarding the English Language Support Services that are available on campus, should you feel you need some assistance with your written or oral skills.
Students whose first language is English can access these services on campus:
UBC Writing Centre
Toastmasters
Speakers of English as a Second Language have access to a free one-on-one tutoring and editing service for MBA coursework until the end of period 3 in May 2012 in addition to the services above – please refer to the Program Resources>International Student Resources>English Language Support Services folder in the Sauder Masters Workshops – 2011 Full Time MBA Vista site for more details.
Please allow a 24-hour turnaround for any work submitted for editing on this site.
Any student wishing to have an English Language Tutor should also go to the above section on Vista and follow instructions to request a tutor.
Should you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact Jenny Chan at jenny.chan@sauder.ubc.ca.
You may notice that when you log into the Student Service Centre you will now automatically be in 2012 Summer session. To check current registration in your current courses, please ensure you select 2011 Winter session.
