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GSS AGMGraduate Student Society (GSS) Annual General Meeting

Thursday, March 24, 2016, 5:30pm
GSS Ballroom, Thea Koerner House

6371 Crescent Road, UBC Vancouver

Open to all UBC Graduate Students. Please bring your UBC Student ID to vote.

Join us for our AGM. Presentations and discussions will be made on:

Free delicious dinner buffet will be provided!

Your presence is important at the AGM in order to secure a quorum and vote.

More information on the AGM

CHBE Persian New Year (Norouz) Party, March 18th 2016, 3pm.

Dear all graduate students,
You are invited to the CHBE first ever Persian New Year (Norouz) Party!

This is March again and let’s get together and celebrate the arrival of spring and Persian new year. If you ever wondered why Persians celebrate the new year at this time of the year, take some moment and watch this short video about Norouz:
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We are doing the event in the CHBE graduate lounge on the 6th floor!
The event details are:
Date and Time: THIS FRIDAY, March 18th, 2016 at 3PM – 5:00PM
Location: Tyler Lewis grad lounge (6th floor lounge in CHBE)
Ticket price: FREE but please do RSVP on the Facebook event page before Wed, March 16 at:
https://www.facebook.com/events/848573278599075/
Guests are also welcome.

The event will start with some Persian cookies, tea and nuts. There will be a 7sin table (if you don’t know what it is, refer to the video) and of course some Persian music and dance!
Hope to see you all on Friday.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Updates will be posted on the CHBE Persian New Year Party (NOROUZ) Facebook Event Page.

Note that the CV development workshop for grads which was originally on the same day, is now rescheduled for April 8th! More details on the workshop series to be emailed later this month.

Best regards,
Roza.