Day: September 16, 2013

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Announcements

EDCP Soup & Bread lunch days

Welcome back to a new academic year!

For the past three years, members of EDCP have made homemade soup and either baked or purchased bread for Thursday shared lunch. This has offered everyone an enjoyable social moment in a busy day, where we pause to eat something delicious and talk with our colleagues. Sharing a meal is a wonderful way to build community — and we all work better after a nutritious lunch.

Those who want to participate, please sign up to contribute soup or bread once in the September-to-April academic year. Ideally, we will have two people each week bringing a pot of soup, and we aim to have at least one vegetarian option. We supply a bread machine and two large crock pots to warm the soup, and try to have everything hot and ready to eat at 12:00 noon.

To sign up for a particular Thursday, contact Saroj Chand <saroj.chand@ubc.ca>.

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Service Opportunities

Grad Student Volunteer Positions on OGPR GCAC and DACR Committees‏

The Office of Graduate Programs and Research (OGPR) currently has two graduate student (either Masters or PhD) volunteer positions on two of its committees as described below:

We are looking for a graduate student volunteer for the Graduate Curriculum Advisory Committee (GCAC).  The GCAC serves as an advisory committee to departments and the Dean on graduate policy within the Faculty and administers all graduate program and curriculum changes within the Faculty.

We are also looking for a graduate student volunteer for the Dean’s Advisory Committee on Research (DACR).  We discuss issues related to research (e.g., representing FOE research to the University community, policies related to research, etc.).

Membership on these committees includes one faculty representative from each Department (EDCP; ECPS; EDST and LLED), the Centre from Cross-Faculty Inquiry (CCFI), and the School of Kinesiology (KIN) as well as two graduate students.  Monthly meetings are chaired by the OGPR Associate Dean, Dr. Beth Haverkamp.  The GCAC meets every fourth Tuesday of the month from 9:30-12:00pm (approximate) in Scarfe 309C.  The meeting schedule for the GCAC is: September 24, October 22, November 26, 2013 there are no scheduled meetings in December, January 28, February 25, March 25, April 22, May 27 and June 24, 2014.  The DACR meets every second Tuesday of the month from 9:30-11:30am in Scarfe 309C.  The meeting schedule for the DACR is: October 8, November 12, December 10, 2013, January 14, February 11, March 11, April 8, May 13 and June 10.  Both committees do not meet during the months of June or July.

Becoming a member of either committee would provide a graduate student with the opportunity to provide a voice for the student perspective on a wide-range of issues and topics relevant to the Faculty of Education as well as the wider University community.  If you would like to volunteer for either of these committees, please send me an email, along with a brief outline of why are interested in the committee and what qualities you would bring to the committee.  Email to: christine.wallsworth@ubc.ca.

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Announcements

Registration Deadlines for September 2013‏

Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Term 1 courses and Distance Education Term A courses:

Last day for change in registration and for withdrawal from most Winter Session Term 1 courses and Distance Education Term A courses without withdrawal standing of W recorded on a student’s academic record.  Student Service Centre remains open for course withdrawals with a W standing.  Refer to the online Course Schedule for specific drop/withdrawal dates.

Last day for changes between credit and audit for most Winter Session Term 1 courses and Distance Education Term A courses. Refer to the online Course Schedule for specific information.

Friday, 20 September 2013

Full-year (Terms 1-2) courses and Distance Education Term B courses:

Last day for change in registration and for withdrawal from most Winter Session full-year (Terms 1-2) courses and Distance Education Term B courses without withdrawal standing of W recorded on a student’s academic record. Student Service Centre remains open for course withdrawals with a W standing. Refer to the online Course Schedule for specific drop/withdrawal dates.

Last day for changes between credit and audit for most Winter Session full-year (Terms 1-2) courses. Refer to the online Course Schedule for specific information.

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Announcements Graduate Program Opportunities

Graduate Pathways to Success Clinics

Registration is now open for:

GPS/CSI&C Session: Resume Clinic

Wednesday, Sept 25th, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

For a complete session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/10593-gpscsic-event-resume-clinic

To register, see http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2b03

Re-orientation

Wednesday, Sept 25th, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Did you miss new graduate student orientation? Re-orientation includes a presentation on “Being Successful as a Graduate Student” as well as “Navigating Funding at UBC”.

To register, visit http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2b04 .

Registration continues for this week’s GPS events:

Copyright for your Thesis, Tuesday, September 17th, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM: 

Register at http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2ae7.

Doctoral Exam Preparation Tuesday, September 17th, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Submitting your Thesis Tuesday, September 17th, 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM

To register for one or both of the above sessions, see http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2aee

Doctoral Exam Preparation (via webinar), Thursday, Sept 19th 9:30 AM to 10:45 AM

Thesis Submission (via webinar)Thursday, Sept 19th , 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

To register for one or both of the above sessions, see http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2af0

NOTES:

Interested in pursuing a career in project management?  UBC Continuing Studies Award of Achievement: Project Management for Tomorrow’s Leaders can help you develop job-ready skills.

Fall 2013 Program dates: Oct 21-Nov 28

Six in-class Thursday sessions (Oct 24, 31, and Nov 7, 14, 21 & 28)

For more information, visit http://cstudies.ubc.ca/project-management/award-of-achievement-in-project-management-tomorrow-leaders/index.html  .  Early bird registration ends Sept 23rd.

 

For upcoming GPS events, see www.grad.ubc.ca/gps .

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Announcements

Peter Wall Institute Arts-Based Initiative student competition – Winners

MESSAGE SENT ON BEHALF OF DR. SAMSON NASHON:

Please join me in congratulating two of our graduate students: Yoriko Gillard (MA) and Natalie LaBlanc (Phd) for being winners of 
the Peter Wall Institute Arts-Based Initiative student competition entitled "Arts Based Conceptions of Water."  The competition is
intended to showcase the important relationship between the performing and visual arts with research in the sciences and 
humanities within institutes of advanced studies. Yoriko Gillard (MA student in art education) is one of three winners of the 
competition and Natalie LaBlanc (PhD candidate in art education) received an honourable mention.  
 
Congratulations to both Yoriko and Natalie! Please consider attending the highlights on Wednesday September 18, 2013.

Arts-Based Conceptions of Water (Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies)

Arts-Based Initiatives Committee Faculty/Student Collaboration

Roy Barnett Recital Hall

School of Music, University of British Columbia

6361 Memorial Road, Vancouver BC

September 18, 2013

PROGRAM

5:40 pm Introduction – Rena Sharon, Peter Wall Institute Faculty Associate and Professor of Collaborative Piano Studies, University of British Columbia

5:45 pm Water Dance performed by Tsatsu Stalqayu (Coastal Wolf Pack)

5:55 pm Kizuna, Yoriko Gillard, MA student in Art Education, Faculty of Education; Award winner, Student Arts-based Competition

6:00 pm Sonata for violin and piano in G major, Op. 78 , 1st movement, by Johannes Brahms; performed by Professor of Violin David Gillham and pianist Chiharu Iinuma, UBC School of Music.

6:15 pm Liquid Automata, Tyler Kinnear & Naithan Bosse, UBC School of Music; Award winners, Student Arts-based Competition

6:25 pm Pa Gen Dlo (There’s no water), Kevin Mason, PhD student in Ethnomusicology, Faculty of Arts; Honourable Mention, Student Arts-based Competition

6:30 pm “Auf dem Wasser zu singen”, music by Franz Schubert, text by Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu Stolberg; performed by Eden Tremayne, soprano, and Nina Horvath, pianist

6:35 pm Bodies of Water: In the Wake of Being & Becoming, Natalie LeBlanc, Dept. of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education; Honourable Mention, Student Arts-based Competition

6:40 pm Miroirs No. 3, Une barque sur l’ocean (A boat on the ocean), by Maurice Ravel; performed by Professor of Piano Mark Anderson, UBC School of Music

6:50 pm END Conference Reception guests proceed to buses for Royal Vancouver Yacht Club

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