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Two GRA positions: 1 Science One Program: Science One Program GRA 2 CTLT and VP office: GRA_TOR-FINAL

 

The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences is looking for a GAA. 
Development of Self Paced Learning Modules for Practice Educators in Pharmacy
Office of Experiential Education, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Job title: curriculum development assistant
Pay rate: $23.89 to $28.47 /hr, depending on experience
Hours per week: 10 to 20
Length of term: Summer 2014, potential for extension in the fall and winter

Background

In September 2015 the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences experiential education component of the curriculum is expected to increase from an existing 20 weeks to 46 weeks.  We currently have 1000 students enrolled in the program and work with over 500 practice educators.  With the increased experiential component, the Office of Experiential Education (OEE) will be challenged to double the number of pharmacy practice educators in a very short period of time.  To this end we have received funding to develop a series of online self-paced modules for practice educator training. The storyboard has largely been completed and an IT company has been contracted to design the modules. We are seeking a graduate student to assist in this process

Role:
Under the supervision of the Director, OEE the graduate student supports success in delivering self-paced learning modules and assists faculty in producing and implementing content and instructional methods for distance and adult learning.

Qualifications
*       Currently pursuing a graduate degree in Education (Curriculum and Pedagogy, Educational Studies, Human Development Learning and Culture, etc.)
*       Knowledge of emerging technologies as related to teaching and learning design.
*       Knowledge and /or experience with instructional design, adult education, learning styles, and learning outcome assessment techniques
*       Strong oral and written communication skills.
*       Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
*       Ability for independent/self-directed action.
*       Ability to work collaboratively with others to produce engaging and effective instructional and supplemental materials for self-paced learning modules.

The RA may be asked to assist in all stages of module development:
*       Help to create a curriculum for practice educator development
*       Help to create a strategy for learner outcome assessment and evaluation of the modules
*       Help to create a strategy for dissemination of the modules
*       Identifies tools and techniques necessary to expand success of the self paced learning modules

The curriculum development assistant will participate in weekly meetings. During these meetings the team will discuss the work being done and collaboratively define the necessary next steps for the coming week.

Please apply with a resume and cover letter to Angela Kim-Sing Director, Office of Experiential Education by June 23rd 2014.akimsing@mail.ubc.ca<mailto:akimsing@mail.ubc.ca>

Monday, June 16^th

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Improve Your Academic Writing with a Peer Support Group and Group Writing Blocks (note that group writing blocks will occur daily from 10 – 12 throughout writing week and will provide space and time for students to write and to give and receive feedback from peers, facilitated by UBC Writing Centre and Grad Studies staff)

To register for this session or any Group Writing Block: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g3535

 

12:00-1:00 PM Open Access Publishing and Authorship Rights

To register:  https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g3536

 

Tuesday, June 17^th

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Group Writing Blocks

12:00 – 1:00 PM, Audience Analysis and Anti-oppressive Language

To register: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g3538

 

Wednesday, June 18^th

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Group Writing Blocks

2:00 – 6:00 PM, Packaging Information in Academic Writing to Achieve Effective Flow and a Valued Voice

To register, email justine.hsu@ubc.ca

 

Thursday, June 19^th

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Group Writing Blocks

1:00 – 4:00 PM, Into the Dustbin: Crafting a Clear and Concise Style

To register: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g3539

 

Friday, June 20^th,  10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Group Writing Blocks

To register for any Group Writing Block: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g3535

 

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 the nuts and bolts of formatting: tables of contents, page layout, numbering, headings, front matter, and more! As well, find out more about the resources that are available to help you in writing your thesis/dissertation. Graduate students at any stage of the writing process are welcome; some prior knowledge of Microsoft Word will be helpful.

 

Monday, June 9th, 2014 at 2:00PM – 4:00PM

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4942

 

Wednesday, June 25th, 2014 at 10:00AM – 12:00PM

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4943

 

Have specific questions you think would be best answered in a one-on-one session? See our Consultations page to book a session: http://koerner.library.ubc.ca/services/research-commons/.

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Citation Management Using RefWorks, Zotero, or Mendeley

 

Need to manage large numbers of references and citations as part of your research, teaching or administrative work? Citation management tools are for you. These tools provide a simple way to store, organize and retrieve your citations in an effective manner, and can also help you in formatting in-text citations and bibliographies in your work.

 

Sign up for a tool specific hands-on workshop about the core concepts of citation management and detailed instruction for use of either RefWorks, Zotero, or Mendeley.

Citation Management Using Zotero

 

Wednesday, June 25th, 2014 at 1:00PM – 3:00PM

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4975

 

Are you new to citation management tools entirely, or do you have advanced-user questions? See our Consultations page to book a one-on-one session: http://koerner.library.ubc.ca/services/research-commons/.

 

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SPSS

Workshop 1- Basic SPSS

 

Do you wonder what SPSS is and how it can be useful to manage and analyze your data? Would you like to learn how to work with SPSS just by clicking a few keys? Let us help you learn the basics.

 

No previous knowledge of SPSS is required for the first workshop:

Monday, June 16th, 2014 at 12:00PM – 2:00PM

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4954

Workshop 2- SPSS Data Management

Do you know how to edit your data using effective data management software? Do you want to work with user-friendly software without going through a hassle of writing code? SPSS can do this for you with a few clicks. Attend this workshop and learn how to manage your data fast.

 

Monday, June 16th, 2014 at 3:00PM – 5:00PM

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4955

 

Workshop 3 – Descriptive/Graphing Analysis with SPSS

 

Do you have trouble summarizing your data? Do you want to analyze your data with t-test, ANOVA, Pearson-test, etc. using SPSS? Do you have trouble graphing and presenting your data with SPSS? Well, we can help you with all of these questions. Enroll in this workshop and learn how to analyze your data hassle-free!

 

Tuesday, June 17th, 2014 at 12:00PM – 2:00PM

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4956

 

Workshop 4 – Regression Analysis

 

Regression analysis is a statistical process for estimating the relationships among variables. We can use regression to make quantitative predictions of one variable from the values of another. Do you wonder how to do linear and logistic regression analysis with SPSS? Do you want to learn about simple and multivariate regression modeling? Register for the SPSS Regression workshop to get a sense of it all!

 

Tuesday, June 17th, 2014 at 3:00PM – 5:00PM

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4957

 

Have specific questions you think would be best answered in a one-on-one session? See our Consultations page to book a session: http://koerner.library.ubc.ca/services/research-commons/.
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Copyright Workshops and Events

 

Ongoing Copyright & Course Reserves Drop-in Clinic

Wednesdays, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Location: The CTLT Resource Room (214), in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

Staff from the Scholarly Communications & Copyright Office will be on-hand to help you work through your copyright and library course reserves questions one-on-one. Bring your reading lists, presentation slides, articles, websites, theses and dissertations, or other work you need guidance on. Registration is not required.

Held in conjunction with the weekly Connect Drop-in Clinic.

 

Author Rights, Funder Mandates, and Open Access Publishing

June 10, 2014

Tue, June 10, 2014 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Curious about managing copyright in academic publishing, locating funder open access policies, and the different options available for open access publishing? Come to this workshop to learn about these topics and more!

Register here.

 

Copyright and Conference Presentations

June 18, 2014

Wed, June 18, 2014 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. This session will provide information on: using copyrighted materials in conference presentations, conference proceedings and prior publication, and copyright basics for conference organizers.

Register here.

 

Copyright for the Classroom

June 24, 2014

Tue, June 24, 2014 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Have questions about screening films in class, distributing readings to your students, or using someone else’s images in your presentation slides or online course pages? What about your students’ use of copyrighted materials in their assignments and online postings? Come to this workshop to get answers to these questions and more!

Register here.

 

Registration is now open for:

GPS/CSI&C Pre-Career Symposium Workshops

Monday, June 9, 2014, Hennings Bldg

3:00pm – 4:00pm: Networking

4:00pm – 5:00pm: From Resume to Online Profile

For a session descriptions, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/11635-gpscsic-pre-career-symposium-workshops-networking-resume-online-profile

To register, see: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g34f2

 

GPS/Centre for Student Involvement & Careers Graduate Career Exploration Symposium (Internships, Entrepreneurship, Career Panels, Networking)

Tuesday, June 10^, 2014, 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM, (Hebb, Henning and Brock Hall)

Details, including registration information, may be found at: http://students.ubc.ca/career/resources/graduate-career-exploration-symposium

Fee: $10 (includes lunch)

 

GPS/SCARL Workshop: Multiple Testing and Comparisons

Please note this is not a how to with software type presentation.

Wednesday, June 11, 2014, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm (Graduate Student Centre)

For a session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/10645-gpsscarl-workshop-vi-multiple-testing-comparisons

To register, see: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g3488

 

GPS Workshop: Writing with Integrity

Wednesday, June 11, 2014, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm (Graduate Student Centre)

For a session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/11533-gps-workshop-writing-integrity

To register, see: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g3489

Registration is now open for the following Graduate Pathways to Success (GPS) sessions:

GPS/UBC Life & Career Centre Workshop: Breaking Patterns of Procrastination

Thursday, June 5, 2014, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm

For a session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/11537-gpsubc-life-career-centre-workshop-breaking-patterns-procrastination

To register, see https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g3484

 

Centre for Student Involvement & Careers and GPS will be hosting a graduate student career exploration symposium on Tuesday, June 10^th.

Details can be found at: http://students.ubc.ca/career/resources/graduate-career-exploration-symposium.  Registration will open later this week.   Registration for the June 9^th pre-symposium workshops will open next Monday.  Join us on facebook at UBC Grad School for further updates.

Public Lecture:

A Humanizing Pedagogy: Getting Beneath the Rhetoric in a South African Post-Conflict University Context

12:00PM, Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Neville Scarfe Building, Room 310

 

Dr. Carol Rodgers, Associate Professor, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA

 

Bio:

Dr. Carol Rodgers is associate professor of education in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the University of Albany, State University of New York. Before coming to SUNY Albany in 2000, she taught for 19 years with the Experiment in International Living and in the Masters of Arts in Teaching Program at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Dr. Rodgers’ teaching and research interests include reflective practice, the historical roots of reflection in the work of John Dewey and early progressive teacher education efforts, reflective teacher education and professional development. She is currently interested in understanding the definition and practice of a humanizing pedagogy, both in the United States and in South Africa where she spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in 2011.

Dr. Rodgers holds an Ed.D. from Harvard Graduate School of Education.  She received an M.Ed. from the University of Massachusetts and a B.A. from Bates College.

The PDCE has a summer student job opportunity and I’m wondering if you’d be willing to make the attached job description available to your networks, if you think it is appropriate?

 

The job is to support the UBC Vancouver International Summer Program, which is a month-long summer exchange program aimed at visiting students from partner universities in China. This year, the Faculty of Education will be offering one cohort: Positive Behaviour Support, and the attached job description is for a Cultural Coordinator to support the program. To see the PDF, click: Vancouver Summer Program Cultural Coordinator – job description

 

Thanks very much for your consideration.

 

All the best,

Sarah

Alternative notions of schooling in Australia: The story of engaging and reflecting on relational ways of supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students

 

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

 

UBC First Nations Longhouse, Sty-Wet-Tan Hall (1985 West Mall),

UBC Point Grey Campus, Vancouver, BC

 

In Australia, ‘Indigenous Education’ policy remains focused on dominant discourses and western notions of success and achievement. Relatively new in Australian education is a mode of schooling termed ‘flexi schools’ or ‘alternative schools’ that offers a different approach to schooling. This session will explore recent research about the views of principals (Shay, 2013) and educators (Morgan, 2013) that have transitioned into this new way of working with young people. It will explore the practical implications of this new approach to schooling for students, educators and leaders with a focus on possibilities for Indigenous education relevant for schooling sectors.

 

Presenters:

Marnee Shay

Aunty Denise Proud

Ann Morgan

 

Light refreshments provided.

No RSVP necessary.

 

Co-sponsored by the Professorship of Indigenous Education in Teacher Education,

the Indigenous Education Office, and Human Development, Learning and Culture.

 

 

 

 

jan.hare@ubc.ca

j.vadeboncoeur@ubc.ca

jo-ann.archibald@ubc.ca

ear UBC Faculty of Education community,

 

The UBC Faculty of Education is pleased to announce this summer’s series of courses and public presentations by scholars from the international education community.

 

Our visiting Noted Summer Scholars for 2014 are:

• Dr. Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Professor, School of Social Transformation Culture, Society and Education, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
• Dr. Carolyn Bereznak Kenny (Nang Jaada Sa-ets), Professor, Human Development and Indigenous Studies, Antioch University, USA
• Dr. Angel M. Y. Lin, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, China
• Dr. Carol Rodgers, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Theory and Practice, University at Albany State University of New York, USA
• Dr. Margaret Semrud-Clikeman,  Professor, Division of Clinical Behavioral Neuroscience, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota  Medical School, USA
• Dr. Hua Zhang, Professor & Dean, Graduate School of Education Studies, Hangzhou Normal University, Zhejiang Province, China

 

Noted Summer Scholars will be instructing a special topic course for the 2014S term and presenting a free public lecture.  For complete listings of Noted Summer Scholar courses, please visit http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/noted-summer-scholars-2014

 

Public Lectures:

These lectures will be of interest to a broad range of people concerned with education. There is no registration process or fee.

 

A Humanizing Pedagogy: Getting Beneath the Rhetoric in a South African Post-Conflict University Context

Dr. Carol Rodgers

12:00, Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Room: Scarfe 310

 

Looking Into the Hearts of Native Peoples: Nation Building as an Institutional Orientation for Graduate Education

Dr. Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy

12:00, Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Room: Scarfe 310

 

What Neuroimaging Can Tell Us About the Underpinnings of Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders

Dr. Margaret Semrud-Clikeman

13:00, Monday, July 14, 2014

Room: Scarfe 310

 

Towards Paradigmatic Change in TESOL Methodologies: Building Plurilingual Pedagogies from the Ground Up

Dr. Angel M.Y. Lin

13:00, Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Room: Scarfe 310

Towards a Research-based Pedagogy

Dr. Hua Zhang

12:00, Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Room: Scarfe 310

 

Scholarship as Leadership: Carving New Pathways in Education

Dr. Carolyn Bereznak Kenny (Nang Jaada Sa-ets)

15:30, Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Room: Scarfe 310

 

Complete details of the 2014 Noted Summer Scholar Series can be found at http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/noted-summer-scholars-2014

 

Registration is now open for next week’s Graduate Pathways to Success (GPS)/CSI&C Resume Clinic.

Thursday, May 29, 2014 – 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM

For a complete session description, please visit https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/11523-gpscsic-event-resume-clinic

To register, see https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g3483

 

Several new workshops including the writing week series, procrastination and from resume to online profile have been posted athttps://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success/gps-workshops-events .

PhD students… as you are planning your schedules for the upcoming year, I thought you might be interested in the following special topics course in Term 2.

If you have questions, please contact me.


EPSE 681B 074              

NARRATIVE INQUIRY

The story reveals the meaning of what otherwise would remain an unbearable sequence of sheer happenings. Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times

Sandra Mathison
Th 4:30 – 7:30 pm, W2
Pre-requisite: an introductory graduate level course in qualitative research This course is for doctoral students.
Course Description:

This course focuses on the philosophical and technical aspects of narrative inquiry, including:

the origins of narrative inquiry in life histories (such as Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant, Goffman, Presentation of Self in Everyday Life,  Garfinkel study of Agnes), the philosophical grounding of narrative inquiry (the historical roots of narrative inquiry in German idealism, the postmodern views of Lyotard and Foucault, Bruner naturalist conception of narrative knowledge,  Ricoeurs conception of time, and John Deweys notions of  experience), and the pragmatics (data collection and analysis) of doing narrative inquiry.
Narratives take many forms (spoken, written, performed) and occur in a variety of situations (conversations, political speeches, media, online forums, social interactions) and at many levels (individual, community, nation states). Narratives are told by a single speaker, co-constructed by interlocutors, or manifest in cultural artifacts. Narratives can unfold in a single context or be developed across different settings and sites of interaction. Narrative analysis examines how social life is conceptualized in the form of stories, with characters, plot structures and time boundaries, and in both descriptive and critical ways.


Sandra Mathison
Professor
Co-Editor, Critical Education

Faculty of Education
University of British Columbia
2125 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6T 1Z4

https://blogs.ubc.ca/evaluation/
https://blogs.ubc.ca/qualresearch/
http://ices-vancouver.org/=20

To Graduate Students and Graduate Advisors:  

I am pleased to offer EDCI 591: Ecology, Pedagogy, and Practice as a prospective course for graduate students to take this summer.

This special topics course requires EOI (expression of student interest) no later than Wednesday, June 4^th in order for EDCI 591 to run.

As your university is part of the Western Canadian Dean’s Agreement, students would be eligible to apply to enrol in the course without additional tuition fees.

UVic has affordable on campus housing and food services during the summer months.

To download the PDF, please click here: EDCI 591 July

Best regards,

Dr. Jennifer S. Thom

Curriculum and Instruction

Faculty of Education

University of Victoria

 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 the nuts and bolts of formatting: tables of contents, page layout, numbering, headings, front matter, and more! As well, find out more about the resources that are available to help you in writing your thesis/dissertation. Graduate students at any stage of the writing process are welcome; some prior knowledge of Microsoft Word will be helpful.

 

Wednesday, May 14th, 2014 at 10:30AM – 12:30PM

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4940

 

Thursday, May 29th, 2014 at 3:00PM – 5:00PM

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4941

 

Monday, June 9th, 2014 at 2:00PM – 4:00PM

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4942

 

Have specific questions you think would be best answered in a one-on-one session? See our Consultations page to book a session: http://koerner.library.ubc.ca/services/research-commons/.

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Citation Management Using RefWorks, Zotero, or Mendeley

 

Need to manage large numbers of references and citations as part of your research, teaching or administrative work? Citation management tools are for you. These tools provide a simple way to store, organize and retrieve your citations in an effective manner, and can also help you in formatting in-text citations and bibliographies in your work.

 

Sign up for a tool specific hands-on workshop about the core concepts of citation management and detailed instruction for use of either RefWorks, Zotero, or Mendeley.

 

Are you new to citation management tools entirely, or do you have advanced-user questions? See our Consultations page to book a one-on-one session: http://koerner.library.ubc.ca/services/research-commons/.

 

Citation Management Using RefWorks:

Thursday, May 22nd, 2014 at 1:00PM – 3:00PM

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4972

 

Citation Management Using Mendeley:

Thursday, May 30^th, 3-5pm

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4973

Citation Management Using Zotero

 

Wednesday, June 25th, 2014 at 1:00PM – 3:00PM

Location: Koerner Library, RM217

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4975

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SPSS

Workshop 1- Basic SPSS

 

Do you wonder what SPSS is and how it can be useful to manage and analyze your data? Would you like to learn how to work with SPSS just by clicking a few keys? Let us help you learn the basics.

 

No previous knowledge of SPSS is required for the first workshop:

 

Tuesday, May 20th, 2014 at 10:00AM – 12:00PM

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4949

 

Workshop 2- SPSS Data Management

Do you know how to edit your data using effective data management software? Do you want to work with user-friendly software without going through a hassle of writing code? SPSS can do this for you with a few clicks. Attend this workshop and learn how to manage your data fast.

 

Tuesday, May 20th, 2014 at 1:00PM – 3:00PM

Location: Koerner Library, RM217

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4952

 

Workshop 3 – Descriptive/Graphing Analysis with SPSS

 

Do you have trouble summarizing your data? Do you want to analyze your data with t-test, ANOVA, Pearson-test, etc. using SPSS? Do you have trouble graphing and presenting your data with SPSS? Well, we can help you with all of these questions. Enroll in this workshop and learn how to analyze your data hassle-free!

 

Wednesday, May 21st, 2014 at 10:00AM – 12:00PM

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4950

 

Workshop 4 –Regression Analysis

 

Regression analysis is a statistical process for estimating the relationships among variables. We can use regression to make quantitative predictions of one variable from the values of another. Do you wonder how to do linear and logistic regression analysis with SPSS? Do you want to learn about simple and multivariate regression modeling? Register for the SPSS Regression workshop to get a sense of it all!

 

Wednesday, May 21st, 2014 at 1:00PM – 3:00PM

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4953

 

Have specific questions you think would be best answered in a one-on-one session? See our Consultations page to book a session: http://koerner.library.ubc.ca/services/research-commons/.

Save the date for Tuesday, June 10^th.  The Centre for Student Involvement & Careers and GPS are planning a full day career symposium including sessions by Mitacs and entrepreneurship at UBC followed by several expert panels and a networking event.

 

Several new sessions, including the Writing Week series, have also recently been posted here https://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success/gps-workshops-events.

Dear Graduate Students,

Your GSS needs YOU! We’re working on a new GSS website and updating our communications materials in general (you know and we know we need to!) To that end we’d like to create a bank of images we can use in our print and online materials. We’re looking for people to photograph who look like graduate students. You Would Be Perfect For This Job!

We ask 90 minutes of your time this Friday, March 28th. There will be two sessions: Session 1: 1:30 – 3:30pm or Session 2: 3:30 – 5:30pm. Please sign up. Please. Email: execassistant@gss.ubc.ca.

NB: You will be required to sign a disclaimer allowing the GSS to use these images.

GSS Social & Recreational:
– 2014 GSS Summer Sports League is back! Create your team and come out and play either Soccer or Softball!  Game day will be Fridays over the months of May-July. Click the link for details, then create your team and Register by May 1st!

– 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. This is your last chance to sign up before the March 27th registration deadline! The class will only proceed if it generates sufficient interest. This opportunity is available to Graduate Students at: $35 and non-Grads at $50

– Try out our Belly Dance Fitness class these next two weeks. The GSS is offering a drop-in rate of $7 a class! 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.

GSS Sponsored Events:
– The GSS is proud to sponsor the UBC Creative Writing 50th Anniversary Prom! The Prom is a student event to celebrate Canada’s oldest writing program. It will take place April 11th, 8PM, at Lost and Found Cafe (33 W Hastings). There will be a pay-what-you-can door cover. Cash bar. In the spirit of the program’s inauguration in 1963, formal wear from that decade is encouraged.

Thanks for reading! When in need of a break, you might appreciate this comic. 🙂

Ngwatilo

A recommendation from Julia Ostertag …

My Grief Lies all Within PhD Students

A message from Basia –

The message is important for new international graduate students if they have an off-campus work permit that they applied through their previous Canadian institution before attending to UBC. If they have the permit they must transfer their eligibility verification to UBC now, otherwise they will encounter difficulties in applying for a permit or visa in the future because they will be considered by CIC to be ones who do not comply with immigration regulations.

To avoid making a mistake, students must take an action to transfer eligibility verification online before November when all institutions participating in off-campus work permit program will report to CIC.

I would appreciate it if the attached message can be sent out to all new international graduate students in your department. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

The message to students is attached. Message about OCWP Eligibility Transfer

Regards, Charles