In October 2012 the Senate approved some changes to the Graduate Student Leave of Absence policy. FoGS website: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/faculty-staff/policies-procedures/leave-status Calendar: http://www.calendar.ubc.ca/vancouver/index.cfm?tree=12,204,341,191 Senate policy: http://senate.ubc.ca/vancouver/policy-abstracts Form: Request for Leave of Absence  https://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/resources-links/forms Of particular interest: “The total duration of all leaves of absence granted in a graduate program is normally limited to 24 months for a […]

The Department of Physical Therapy at UBC has a practical exam coming up, and I was hoping that you could pass along the message as well as the attached document to your students (Volunteer OSCE Requirements – 2013). The Department of Physical Therapy at UBC is in need of patient model volunteers for an upcoming […]

http://met.ubc.ca/met-faculty/ta-postings/ From: Dave Roy (MET Senior Program Assistant) Professional Development & Community Engagement The University of British Columbia Ph: (604) 822-3622 / Fax: (604) 822-2015

Canada Line Art Columns:  Call for Public Art Exhibits The City of Richmond Public Art Program invites a curator or a curatorial team from a British Columbia Post-Secondary institution to propose an exhibition for showcasing student artworks in a two-dimensional format within the three Canada Line art columns in Richmond, BC. The curator or curatorial […]

The Research Commons @ UBC Library is Hiring! The Research Commons is a collaborative project between UBC Library, the Faculty of Graduate Studies, and the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology.  Supported by a UBC Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund grant, the Research Commons provides a growing range of research support services for graduate students […]

EDUC 517 Wellbeing as the aim of Wisdom – and of Education too?  taught by Drs. Christopher Martin and Joe Dunne is being offered from July 29-August 16, 2013 from 9am-12pm Monday thru Friday at UBC’s Okanagan campus.  This three credit course is open to all graduate students. NOTE: Dr. Joseph Dunne is a member […]

EDCP deadline is May 6, 2013, NOON Globalink Graduate Fellowship In collaboration with Mitacs, UBC has created the Globalink Graduate Fellowships for Mitacs Globalink alumni students who wish to pursue a research Master’s or PhD program at UBC. UBC will fund up to six students per year, depending on availability of funding from Mitacs, the […]

Have you registered yet for Moving Minds on May 16? Join the movement at UBC towards supporting healthy physical activity. Find out more: http://hkinmm.sites.olt.ubc.ca/ UBC faculty, staff and alumni are invited to be a part of the movement: a movement to help make UBC healthier. MovingMinds is a free event designed to help you take […]

COURSES: 3 CREDITS EACH, 12 CREDITS IN TOTAL LLED 480C/952 Multimedia Technology & Indigenous Language Revitalization Candace K. GallaNeville Scarfe Building | Room 1006 July 2-19, 2013 | 10:30 am–1:00 pm  Week 1: Tue–Sat | Week 2: Mon–Fri | Week 3: Mon–Fri Utilizing technology allows for the preservation of Indigenous languages, materials to be developed […]

Please find attached a GTA Position for the first course being offered in the Dadaab Teacher Education Program in Kenya.

Did you miss the Three Minute Thesis finals?  Videos are now available for viewing at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8JAfS6VQqkxCwy0FAPB5JO820KU50hCl .  Please note that the semi-finalist videos will be posted here in the next two weeks.   A congratulations to all the graduate students who presented this year for their outstanding presentations! The Mitacs Step program is running a Foundations […]

This is just a brief note to introduce Prof Lynn Mario de Souza from the University of Sao Paulo (USP), who will visit UBC from 3 to 7 May. I have had the pleasure of working in collaboration with Prof de Souza for the past 12 years, researching, teaching, learning, and publishing together internationally. One […]

Call for papers / Appel de textes Special Issue Focus: Multimedia in/as scholarship Anila Asghar and Teresa Strong-Wilson (McGill University) invite submissions for a special issue of the McGill Journal of Education on Multimedia in/as Scholarship. This issue invites scholars from a wide variety of disciplines in education to explore the use of multimedia in/as […]

Research Ethics Deadline **For more info visit UBC Research Ethics. April 26 for May 19 meeting May 10 for May 23 meeting May 31 for June 13 meeting June 14 for June 27 meeting   Academic Deadlines **Deadlines culled from the UBC Online Calendar.     TODAY, Friday, 19 April 2013 Graduate Studies: Last day […]

In order to optimise the use of administrative and operations support space across the Faculty, we have been conducting a review of space utilization. We have seen a decline in the usage of computer labs in the Scarfe building, in particular the lab in Room 1011. In order to facilitate the transition of IT operations […]