Hello again LFS Grad Students!
The Grad Student Council is happy to announce the date of the 2024 LFS Grad Student Conference – February 28th!
Stay tuned for more information – the abstract submission deadline will be on January 15th.
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Faculty of Land and Food Systems Graduate Student Council
Hello LFS Grad Students!
The Grad Student Council is hosting a writing retreat to help you with your end of year writing goals!
The event will take place on Dec 11th from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm at MCML 160.
We will provide coffee and snacks ☕????
RSVP⬇️
https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9B0Q2QACcGP5glU
Faculty of Land and Food Systems Graduate Student Council
UBC – Faculty of Land and Food Systems Announces
The Oral Examination for the Degree of
Master of Science
(Human Nutrition)
Oliver Sage
“ Assessing the suitability of nutrition education resources on sugars and health among dietitians”
Thursday, December 14, 2023 – 2:30 PM
Room 220, Food, Nutrition and Health Building, 2205 East Mall
EXAMINING COMMITTEE
Chair: Dr. C. Karakochuk
Supervisory Committee:
Dr. T. Cohen – Supervisor
Dr. S. Grant – Committee member
Dr. S. Purcell – Committee member
Defense Committee Composition
Dr. T. Cohen – Supervisor
Dr. S. Grant – Committee member
Dr. S. Purcell – Committee member
Dr. G. Hammond – External
With positive feedback and support from the students last year, the Department of Medicine is pleased to offer the second delivery of MEDI 504B this upcoming January. We are extending the invitation to graduate-level students outside of the Faculty of Medicine – we ask that you kindly share the opportunity with students and faculty in your program who may be interested. For inquiries, please direct them to medi.exptlmed@ubc.ca. Thank you.
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Course Name: MEDI504B Emerging Topics in Experimental Medicine (Machine Learning Analysis in Health Data)
Course Instructor: Dr. Aline Talhouk (Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology)
Date/Time: 2023/24 WT2 Mon & Wed 1-3pm (Location: DHCC); Jan 8th – Feb 21st, 2024
Credit: 1.5
Course Summary: We target students who are interested in how medical care can be transformed by “Big data”. We use real-life clinical use cases to motivate how clinical care can be enhanced with collecting unconventional data of various kinds and feeding such data to machine learning methods to build next-generation clinical tools. However, even with the appropriate data collected, we describe the data science challenges that need to be overcome before the data can be used properly. We give an introduction of the main concepts and methods in biostatistics, machine learning, including unsupervised and supervised methods, and data visualization. Last but not least, we discuss ethical, fairness issues and other potential pitfalls of applying machine learning to medical care.
Pre-requisite: MEDI504A (*For pre-req exemption, please email medi.exptlmed@ubc.ca)
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Best,
Sharon Xu
Experimental Medicine Program Office
Department of Medicine
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver General Hospital
2775 Laurel Street | Vancouver BC | V5Z 1M9 Canada
medi.exptlmed@ubc.ca
Attention Doctoral students
I hope you enjoyed the fog this morning! Happy almost December.
The deadline for submission of Nominations for External Examiner for PhD candidates wanting to complete on the timeline for Spring 2024 Graduation was last Friday, November 24. While this is a slightly flexible deadline, forms should really be in by Friday this week, to avoid delays. We do find that potential examiners are slower to reply as the winter break approaches.
Please note, these are the deadlines for candidates who want to participate in the Spring Graduation ceremony. The dates for April 30, 2024 program completion are similar but not the same; they are a few days later in each case.
As a reminder, the other dates candidates need to meet are as follows:
FRIDAY, 26 JANUARY 2024 – Doctoral dissertation (and supporting documentation) submitted to Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for external examination
FRIDAY, 22 MARCH 2024 – Last Day for Final Doctoral Oral Examination
FRIDAY, 19 APRIL 2024 – Acceptance of final, approved doctoral dissertation by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Students will be able to choose to defend either in person or on Zoom. We will work with students to select the most appropriate mode for their defence.
Please distribute this email to any faculty or students you think may be interested.
Best,
Robyn
Robyn Starkey (Pronouns: No Preference)
Doctoral Exams Coordinator
Office of the Dean | Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
The University of British Columbia 170 – 6371 Crescent Road | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z2 Canada
Phone 604 822 3989
robyn.starkey@ubc.ca | grad.ubc.ca
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