Hello everyone,
Happy Friday! Did you enjoy the sunshine of the week? I’m sure the trees enjoy it as much as we human do! Speaking about trees,
The International Day of Forests
the Faculty of Forestry will celebrate next Friday the International Day of Forests (March 21) with an open house event (movie marathon, tree planting, etc.). Students, staff, faculty members, researchers – anyone interested in everything-forests is invited to join!
There are the exciting documentary such as MusicWood (screening at 11:30 AM) – and also some amazing acoustic guitar performances. Check out the schedule HERE.
Continue our road to sustainable word,
Oil Sands Speaker Series
Engineers for a Sustainable World UBC will be hosting the third instalment of our Oil Sands Speaker Series On Wednesday, March 12th at 4pm in CHBE 318, . The speaker will be Dr. Kathryn Harrison, a Political Science professor at UBC with a Masters in Chemical Engineering from MIT. Her talk is titled “The Politics of Tar Sands Expansion”. As usual, free coffee and snacks will be provided.
Check out UBC Engineers for a Sustainable World website at https://blogs.ubc.ca/sustainabilityclub/
UBC TACS Free Tax Workshop
UBC TACS will be hosting a free workshop at Marine Drive Residences to teach students how to file their own taxes. We would like to invite international students who live on campus to join us because we feel that this workshop will be invaluable to them. We would greatly appreciate your assistance if you could kindly pass on this opportunity through your channels. The details of the events are as follows:
Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Time: 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Location: Marine Drive Ballroom
RSVP: http://bit.ly/tacsttt.
You can just learn how to fill your tax form for FREE and potentially get refund! which student doesn’t like free stuff? Seriously, let me know.
GSS Annual General Meeting
The GSS is holding its Annual General Meeting on Thursday March 20, 2014. Open to all members of the Society, the AGM provides students with the opportunity to receive reports from Council with respect to activities of the preceding year, receive financial statements of the Society, and ask any questions regarding the future directions of the Society. The meeting will commence at 5:30 pm and will be held in the GSS Ballroom (6371 Crescent Road). Please click the link to download the AGM Agenda.
http://gss.ubc.ca/main/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/AGM-Agenda.pdf
If you have any suggestion for what you like to see on our weekly news, please email me at jslee@chbe.ubc.ca or comment on this blog post. Also please join the CHBE Grad Student Club Facebook Group on https://www.facebook.com/groups/chbegsc/ if you are a graduate student or a recent alumni of graduate program of UBC CHBE.
Have a great weekend!
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