8:30 – 9:10 – Breakfast and mingling
9:10 – 9:20: Opening – Shona Ellis
9:20 – 9:35: Course Updates: BIOL 338 – Keith Adams, Jae-Hyoek Lee
9:35 – 9:45 – Integrating SEEDS research projects in Biology lab courses” – Santokh Singh
9:45 – 9:55 – Three Minute Thesis (3MT) presentations in BIOL 351/352: Challenges and opportunities” – Santokh Singh
9:55 – 10:00 – Highlights of SABER – Carol Pollock
10:00 – 10:30 – Coffee Break
10:30 – 10:45 – Students creating and editing Wikipedia pages – Rosie Redfield
10:45 – 11:00 – Digital Learning Environment Project – Liane Chen
11:00 – 11:15 – BIOL 140 Revision Update – Kathy Nomme, Pam Kalas, Natalie Shimpf, Lynn Norman, Chin Sun
11:15 – 12:00 – Workshop Topic: Standardizing Scientific Conventions Across the Biology Program – Kathy Nomme, Pam Kalas, Natalie Shimpf, Lynn Norman, Chin Sun
12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch
1:00 – 1:10 – Award Presentations (Greg Bole)
1:10 – 1:30 – Student/staff/faculty well-being – beyond the green folder – (Miranda Massie, Health Promotions Coordinator, UBC)
1:30 – 2:30 – Workshop Topic: Supporting Case-Based Student Writing and Logical Reasoning: Three Different Scaffolding Approaches and their Outcomes – Robin Young, Miranda Meents
2:30 – 3:00 – Retreat Close followed by an optional tour of the UBC Botanical Garden