On behalf of Latika Raisinghani: From: Latika Raisinghani [mailto:latikarai@hotmail.com] Sent: November-17-13 12:33 AM To: Zurek, Basia; Webb, Andrea Subject: Request to share: Educating the Heart & Mind Community of Practice meeting   I would appreciate if you could kindly share the upcoming meeting of the Community of Practice for Educating the Heart and Mind with […]

From: Ngwatilo Mawiyoo [mailto:communications@gss.ubc.ca] Sent: November-13-13 2:34 PM To: gradadminstaff Subject: GSS Weekly Newsletter — Dear Graduate Students, Isn’t it so awesome that you get to be you?! Think about it. This week at the GSS: – Coffee’ll Fix it this Thursday. – Want to plan ahead? Check out the GSS Coffee Social schedule for the rest […]

Dear Members, Members are invited to consider offering a general graduate student professional development session for the CCGSE during the 2014 CSSE Conference (http://brocku.ca/congress2014/). Topics for these sessions might focus on, but are not limited to: Grant Writing for Graduate Students; Job Search for Graduate Students; Mentorship and the Graduate Student, and/or Publishing for Graduate […]

From: Ngwatilo Mawiyoo [mailto:communications@gss.ubc.ca] Sent: November-07-13 12:59 PM To: gradadminstaff Subject: GSS Weekly Newsletter   Happy November! Thank you for your support last week. We got a good number of graduate students together, to celebrate halloween, including a few with their young’uns who carved up some pumpkins. There aren’t many opportunities in the year to […]

Greetings! Attached here is the latest FINE newsletter (FINE Newsletter 12 – November 2013).  I want to thank everyone for the strong showing of UBC graduate students at last year’s FINE meeting at AERA.   I  encourage you to take a look at the newsletter and check out future FINE events.  FINE is truly a hidden […]

GPS/SCARL Workshop II:  Exploring and Visualizing Data November 13, 2013; 10:00am to 12:00pm For a complete session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/10563-gpsscarl-workshop-exploring-visualizing-data . To register, see: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2ce8   Please note: Nov 4 – 8 is Thrive week at UBC.  Check out their events and workshops at http://thrive.ubc.ca/ . For upcoming GPS workshops, visit https://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success/gps-workshops-events

Tips and Tricks for Formatting Your Thesis: Little Things Mean A Lot! Are you worried about getting your thesis/dissertation into the format required by the Faculty of Graduate Studies? Would you like to know more about how to use the formatting features in Microsoft Word? Research Commons staff will help you with your questions about […]

Dear Graduate Students, It’s almost All Hallow’s Eve! This week, the GSS Weekly Newsletter comes early and nutty because there are things you ought to know now: The GSS Halloween Party is this Friday. Our resident spook has questions. I like to play nice with the spooks where I can, so I have my ticket. You can […]

The Research Commons invites graduate students from any discipline – engineers, philosophers, computer scientists, writers, neuroscientists, artists, psychologists, social theorists, and others – to explore the boundary between mind and machine. Join us for the next FIREtalk (bit.ly/firetalk), Learning Machines. When: Wednesday, November 27, 4-6 pm Where: Koerner Library, Room 216 About the Topic What […]

Registration is open for the Instructional Skills Workshop November 26, 28, December 2, 2013.  Please note that participants must be able to attend the entire 24 hour workshop. The Instructional Skills Workshop is an internationally recognized program and students receive transcript notation for their participation.  It is a 3-day intensive workshop that develops participant’s teaching skills and confidence.  It is appropriate for first […]

UBC Faculty of Education NewsFlash for Graduate Students #644 October 25, 2013 The Office of Graduate Programs and Research | Faculty of Education | UBC Vancouver For more information  or copies of previous NewsFlashes, please e-mail: educ.ogpr@ubc.ca<mailto:educ.ogpr@ubc.ca>, or call: 604-822-5512, Fax: 604-822-8971.  Please visit http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/newsflash for all new and current NewsFlash items. For UBC-wide events, […]

Dear Graduate Students, *Stay safe on campus. Look out for one another.* We would love to see you in the coming days. Make our plans your plans – we kinda made them hoping you would.  Today: – Make plans/learn strategies to help you explore Vancouver @ 2pm – Have coffee at the GSS @ 3pm On Thursday, October 31st (copy paste […]