GSS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Graduate Students,
The hills are alive! Crocuses and snowdrops are out and about, and the leaf buds on the trees (and rose bushes!) are starting to show! We just have to get through the rest of the semester. Let’s do this!
GSS AGM:
– The GSS is holding its Annual General Meeting on Thursday March 20, 2014. Open to all members of the Society, the AGM provides students with the opportunity to receive reports from Council with respect to activities of the preceding year, receive financial statements of the Society, and ask any questions regarding the future directions of the Society. The meeting will commence at 5:30 pm and will be held in the GSS Ballroom (6371 Crescent Road). You’re invited! Please click the link to download the AGM Agenda.
GSS Social & Recreational:
– Try out our Belly Dance Fitness class these next three weeks. The GSS is offering a drop-in rate of $7 a class! This, friends, is the physical manifestation of a STEAL! Secure your spot online, or in cash at our office during business hours! The class takes place on Mondays between 5.30-6.30pm at the GSS Ballroom.
– The GSS is looking to initiate a Persian Choral Music ensemble and introduce the fundamentals of Persian Music in theory and practice (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Base choir). The GSS will offer 7 workshops on Mondays starting March 31st. Register by March 27th. The class will only proceed if it generates sufficient interest. This opportunity is available to Graduate Students at: $35 and non-Grads at $50
GSS Sponsored Events:
– Save the date! The GSS and others are sponsoring Out of the Box 2014: The Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program’s Annual Graduate Conference, at the Liu Institute for Global Issues on Friday, March 21st, 2014! Register now and check out their website for more information!
– The GSS is also proud to sponsor the UBC Anthropology Research Open House at UBC’s Anthropology Sociology Building on March 21st at 4pm. The evening will feature graduate and undergraduate student research presentations in any field of anthropology, a guest lecture and beer garden. You are warmly invited! A few presentation spots remain! Contact Heather Robertson if interested.
UBC Updates:
Student Housing and Hospitality Services (SHHS) has released two surveys to help UBC better understand the housing needs and preferences of all UBC students. Filling these out will help ensure that future decisions benefit UBC students better and that your needs, as graduate students, are heard!
Fill the form relevant to you depending on whether you live off-campus or on-campus.
In & Around The GSS:
– Help us spruce up our communications! The GSS is planning a photo shoot on the afternoon of March 28th, and we’re looking for some volunteers to help us showcase the services we provide to graduate students and the larger UBC community. We promise it will be fun! We won’t ask more than 2hrs of your time, and we will throw in a meal from Seedlings Cafe or Koerner’s Pub! Please drop us an email at: execassistant@gss.ubc.ca
– In partnership with Blank Vinyl Project, Koerner’s Pub has brought back Open Mic on Mondays!
– And the results are in: Following last week’s 3MT final round, Stephanie Harvard, PhD in Population and Public Health, will proceed to represent UBC in the 3Minute Thesis regional event in Calgary with her thesis topic, “Does Quality of Spondyloarthritis Care Affect Costs and Outcomes?” Her supervisors are Dr. Aslam Anis and Dr. Bruno Fautrel. Go Stephanie!
Have a productive rest of the week! Watch a TED Talks Live Stream if you can.
Warmest,
Ngwatilo