Happy Friday!

We are emailing on behalf of the AMS club, Undergraduate Research Opportunities (URO), to inquire as to whether you would be interested in participating as a mentor in the Research EXperience Program (REX).

What is REX?

REX is a six month long program designed to help undergraduate students build essential research skills through a proposed research project (no results required). The skills acquired by the prospective students include:

•         Formulating research questions or topic
•         Understanding how to perform literature reviews
•         Synthesizing and performing a research project
•         Creating & printing a research poster
•         Learning how to present a research poster

As a REX mentor you will guide 2-4 undergraduates through a mini proposed research project (no results required) within your field of expertise. Your mentee will present at a local undergraduate conference or publish their project in a local undergraduate journal. URO provides workshops on the basics of research methodology to ease the students’ transition into the program. As a mentor, you will take a supervisory role in the students’ projects, and it is recommended you commit a minimum of 4 hours each month for 6 months (October to March).

For an undergraduate, finding a chance to work/volunteer in a given field of research can be very difficult. REX seeks to help undergraduates experiment with research earlier in their careers and make a more informed decision about graduate school. If this opportunity interests you and you would like to become a mentor, please complete the initial registration form here. (This is NOT the final registration. The final registration and bio submission opens in early August and will confirm your registration in the program for this year.)

Further information

Last year’s REX Mentor Brochure

REX website

If you have any questions, comments or other inquiries please do not hesitate to contact us at rex.uro.ubc@gmail.com. Thank you for your time and consideration. We look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,
Matthew Chung
REX Committee Co-Chair
UBC Undergraduate Research Opportunities AMS Student Nest, Room 3302H

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Good afternoon:

I hope you’ve all been enjoying your summer so far.

You’ve been keeping me busy with your travel award applications!  It’s wonderful to see so many of our graduate students once again attending conferences and getting a chance to present your research and network with colleagues and peers.

I want to remind you that when you submit your applications, please make sure you include the total costs of the conference.  You need to submit receipts up to $1500 for reimbursement, but the total cost is really important.  Later this summer, I’ll be reviewing the funding levels for next year’s travel award.  If I’m going to propose increasing the award value, then I need data to support that recommendation.  As an example, up until 2015, our LFS GSTA funding levels were 1 award per program, $400 MSc and $600 PhD.  When the award value increased to $1500 in 2015W, up until last year, the average award was approximately $1250.  For 2022W, the average costs to students to attend a conference were approximately $2,028.00. I’d say that’s a substantial increase.   I’ll likely be sending out a Qualtrics survey within the next couple of weeks to get your feedback on funding levels for the LFS Graduate Student Travel Award.  Again, your feedback will be very helpful.

As always, please don’t hesitate to let me know if you have any questions.

Shelley

Shelley Small
Administrative Manager, Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies

UBC – Faculty of Land and Food Systems Announces The Oral Examination for the Degree of

Doctor of Philosophy
(Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems)

Tatiana Ginneth Zarate Barrera

“ Essay in Environmental and Development Economics”

June 12, 2023 12:00 PM
Exam Location: Zoom.

EXAMINING COMMITTEE

Chair: Dr. J. Bulkan

Supervisory Committee:
Dr. C. McAusland – Supervisor
Dr. S. Anderson – Co-Supervisor
Dr. F. Noack – Committee member
Dr. T. Rogall – Committee member

Defense Committee Composition
Dr. C. McAusland – Supervisor
Dr. S. Anderson – Co-Supervisor
Dr. T. Rogall – Committee member
Dr. N. Ramankutty – University Examiner
Dr. M. Margulis – University Examiner
Dr. N. Rivers – External Examiner

Congratulations to Vincent Fetterley – MSc in PLNT – on receiving the 2023 Canadian Society of Agronomy Graduate Student Pest Management Award! As part of the award, Vincent will be invited to give a keynote talk on his work.