FIREtalks: Care and Healing Can we only heal individuals or is possible to heal entire cultures? Are scientific and holistic approaches to care and healing necessarily mutually exclusive? Is preventive always better than restorative care? As graduate students, many of us are involved in research concerning care and healing, and we can think about these […]

UBC’s Academic English Support program currently has places open for graduate students. The program offers free, individualized help from English language teaching specialists including a needs analysis, language coaching, classroom and self-access based course and resources.   You may find this UBC Reports article on a recent graduate’s experience of the program helpful.

University Affairs (UA) is an award-winning magazine read by graduate students, faculty and administrators on campuses across Canada. You may not know that as a UBC graduate student you are eligible for a free subscription (10 issues/year). University Affairs publishes news, commentary and in-depth articles on a wide range of Canadian higher education topics. The […]

The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies is running a student competition for arts-based presentations of still images/works or performance/video pieces of 4 to 10 minutes on the topic of water (“the piece”). In September 2013, the Peter Wall Institute will host a public panel discussion on the need for cross-disciplinary strategies to deal with […]

There are three levels of the scholarships – from the Chinese government, from the Chongqing government and from the President of our university. Please give this information to your students who are interested in studying in China, maybe this will be helpful to them. Graduate students program of Southwest University Mayor scholarship application Southwest university […]

Open to Masters and PhD Applications: The award is offered for a completed scholarly project, thesis, or dissertation in the area of arts research and teaching. The work must have been accepted within two years prior to the year of the conference. Graduates of Canadian universities or Canadians who have studied abroad are eligible for […]

The MA Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAAPPS) students are looking for presenters for their annual two-day conference to be held on April 5 and 6 on the UBC campus. MAAPPS Call for Abstracts This year’s theme is ‘People, Place and Policy’. Could you please forward the attached call for abstracts to your faculty and graduate students?  We apologize in […]