Hello everyone, it is Friday! The sun is out and the temperature is high. The weather starts to feel like summer~ There is a number of good and not-so-good news this week that the grad club would like to share.
Hafiz wins Killiam GT award
Please join me to congratulate Hafiz Rahman, PhD candidate, for winning the Killam GT award as a recognition of his outstanding contribution to teaching and learning in our Department. Hafiz has a Masters degree from the University of Alberta and is currently working under the supervision of Dr.Bi, Grace and Lim. Hafiz is the President of the Department’s Graduate student club and we are all grateful to his contributions to the intellectual life of the Department and the well being of his fellow students.
GSS party has essentially free bzzr
(Re-posting) The GSS is super excited to host an End of Term Party! They have 3 rounds of FREE Beer Tasting including Spring beers, Dark beers, Pale ales! We’ll have a DJ rocking the most happening music (no matter how young or old you are!), we’ll have a dance instructor for the studious among you, mad snacks and desserts! Tickets available now here, or at our front desk during business hours. Get them! Early bird tickets are $5 until April 15th. [http://gss.ubc.ca/main/the-gss-end-of-term-party-is-on/]
Now that we have the good news, please
Beware of Internet Security Risk – Heartbleed Bug
A serious security risk called the “Heartbleed Bug” has been detected on the Internet that can put your private information at risk. Information transmitted to an Internet site affected with this bug, such as a log-on page for online banking, may become available to a third party. It takes minimal effort to intercept and the attack is undetectable. The Heartbleed bug has the potential to expose your private data, including usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, and emails. UBC is treating this bug very seriously and is in the process of verifying whether any UBC systems are impacted, and immediately fixing any of those identified. During this process, it may be necessary to suspend some services. If you encounter an unexpected issue accessing a UBC service, please check www.it.ubc.ca/heartbleed to see if your service has been impacted.
Lastly,
some CHBE department updates
Heidi Backous will be joining us on April 14 as an admin assistant to the RES’EAU WaterNET project. Heidi will be working with Madjid and Keyvan on the network finances and administration. She will not be working on any departmental business. Heidi will be siting in the main administration office.
The department (and UBC) will be closed for the Easter weekend starting Friday, April 18 to Monday, April 21 inclusive.
There will no Weekly News next week in conjunction with the Easter Weekend.
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With the end of the semester, Graduate students may have more time to work on their thesis. To help UBC graduate students with the statistical elements of their work, The Statistical Consulting And Research Laboratory (SCARL) in the Department of Statistics at UBC is please to offer limited statistical consulting to UBC graduate students at no charge.