Registration is still open for next week’s Scholarships and Awards sessions:

Monday, September 11

10:00 AM to 12:00 PM (in person): www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/16237-scholarship-award-opportunities-graduate-students

2:00 PM to 3:30 PM (via webinar): www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/16238-scholarship-award-opportunities-graduate-students-webinar

 

Orientation events continue including:

Sept 08: GSS Speed Friending + Social

Sept 10: Family Fun at Acadia Park, with the GSS

Sept 11: GSS Pancake Breakfast

Sept 12: Graduate Student Orientation to the Library

For more information, visit: http://orientation.grad.ubc.ca/events/event/

 

Late Arrival International Student Orientations: (learn important information on required immigration documents and health insurance)

September 8 | 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM or 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

September 12 | 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM or 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

September 18 | 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM or 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

For more information, http://orientation.grad.ubc.ca/events/event/late-arrival-international-student-orientations/

 

Thank you,
Jacqui

Jacqui Brinkman
Manager, Graduate Pathways to Success Program
Office of the Dean | Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus
170 – 6371 Crescent Road | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z2 Canada
Phone 604 827 4578 | Fax 604 822 5802
jacqui.brinkman@ubc.ca | @ubcgradschool
https://www.grad.ubc.ca/

I am Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta, and I am holding some grants for which I am looking for outstanding PhD candidates who are interested on water-food-energy environment science and climate change studies. I am wondering if you could kindly circulate the attached advertisement on PhD position to UBC grad students network?

PhD opportunity in water-food-environment and climate change science

I would be regretful if you kindly help me by distributing the attached job ad or by connecting me to the appropriate contact in UBC at your earliest convenience.

Thank you very much for your time and consideration,

Regards

Monireh

—

Monireh Faramarzi Assistant Professor Campus Alberta Innovates Program (CAIP) Chair in Watershed Science

University of Alberta

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

1-26 Earth Sciences Building

Edmonton, AB  T6G 2E3, Canada

Tel: 780 492 7241 Email: faramarz@ualberta.ca https://www.ualberta.ca/earth-atmospheric-sciences/people/person/faramarz http://cms.eas.ualberta.ca/faramarzilab/lab-members/monireh-faramarzi/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dY6xjEAAAAAJ&hl=en

The Centre for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) welcomes you to the new academic year with three options for graduate student professional development in the study of teaching and learning (pedagogy):

 

1. Foundations of Pedagogy course http://cirtl.ubc.ca/get-involved/foundations-of-pedagogy/

This is a free, non-credit UBC face to face course to learn about teaching effectively, and successful completion qualifies you to register as a CIRTL Associate.

It will be held from 9-11 AM on Wednesdays, Sept. 20-Nov 8 in Koerner Library in the Research Commons, room 216. Register at the link above before Sept 13; registration will be capped at 25 students.

 

2. CIRTL Central free on-line courses.  Fall 2017 Online Courses. Register here-https://www.cirtl.net/p/fall-2017-courses-open-for-registration

1. Teaching with Technology- Discover new instructional tools and learn how to critically evaluate evolving technologies.
2. Teaching-as-Research- Plan and refine your own Teaching-as-Research project alongside a learning community of peers.
3. Creating Assessments for the STEM Classroom-Learn how to create and implement assessments particular to STEM courses.
4. The College Classroom: Teaching Inclusively-Study issues of inclusion and develop an inclusive micro-teaching plan in this hands-on course.
5. Diversity in the College Classroom-Understand the theory behind how diversity affects learning and develop practical classroom strategies.
6. Gender Bias Intervention in STEM for Women and Men- Analyze gender bias and collaboratively develop approaches to counter gender bias in STEM.

3. An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching-Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

Runs Monday, October 2 through Friday, November 17 Learn about STEM teaching at your own pace through online video modules and discussion boards in this MOOC developed by CIRTL Network faculty. No cap.

Registration: http://stemteachingcourse.org/introduction/about-course-1/

 

Note: if we have enough interest, we will start a MOOC-centered learning community, i.e. a group of people taking the MOOC who will meet at UBC to discuss the MOOC weekly topic. Please email Jens below if you would like to join this MOOC discussion group.

 

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact Jens Vent-Schmidt, CIRTL@UBC Program Coordinator, cirtlinfo@ubc.ca or me, lsamuels@mail.ubc.ca.

Sincerely,

Professor Lacey Samuels

Institutional Co-Leader

CIRTL@UBC

Call for Nominations: Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships

The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) program is designed to attract and retain world-class doctoral students by supporting students who demonstrate both leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in the social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and engineering, and health-related fields. Canadian and international students are eligible to be nominated for a Vanier Scholarship, which is valued at $50,000 per year for up to three years.

The application form is completed online on ResearchNet (www.researchnet-recherchenet.ca).

The deadline for applicants to submit applications on ResearchNet is 11:59 pm (PDT – Vancouver time) on Thursday, 7 September 2017.

The deadline for graduate programs to submit nominations to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies is 4:00 pm on Tuesday, 26 September 2017.

For full details, please see our website at www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/vanier-scholarship.

Important notes regarding student mobility:

·         Vanier scholars are encouraged to continuously broaden their research horizons and seek new challenges. For this reason, Vanier CGS candidates are strongly encouraged to pursue their studies at a university other than that (or those) which granted their undergraduate and graduate degrees. Candidates who are nominated by a university at which they have completed a previous degree must provide a strong and compelling rationale, in the Special Circumstances section of the application, as to why they have chosen to undertake their PhD at the same university.

·         Though the majority of UBC’s Vanier nominees will have a previous affiliation with UBC, we strongly encourage faculty members to identify and consider prospective students from universities beyond UBC.

For Vanier CGS program news and reminders, please see: http://www.vanier.gc.ca/en/news-nouv_2017-18.html.

INTERNAL Deadline September 14, 2017 – This is a firm deadline.  We will not accept any applications (missing documents) after this deadline.  In addition, incomplete applications will not be considered.  It is the student’s responsibility to ensure all supporting documentations, including transcripts and reference letters, are received by the deadline.

If you are considering applying for a doctoral-level Tri-Council and/or Affiliated Fellowship, please NOTIFY me of your intention by September 7.  The LFS Graduate Office will be experiencing some unexpected staffing shortages during September and October.  In order to ensure adequate administrative support for this award competition, it will help us a great deal if we know in advance of your intention to apply so that we can set realistic and workable deadlines.

 

UBC Affiliated Fellowships:

The UBC Affiliated Fellowships doctoral competition runs in concert with the university-adjudicated NSERC and SSHRC CGS doctoral competitions. Students who submit an NSERC or SSHRC application to their graduate program are eligible for open Affiliated Fellowships and do not need to submit a separate Affiliated Fellowships application. (To be considered for criteria-based affiliated fellowship(s), students should submit this checklist (https://www.grad.ubc.ca/sites/default/files/awards/awards_affiliated_criteria-based.docx) with their NSERC or SSHRC application to their graduate program.) Those applying only for Vanier CGS or CIHR Doctoral Research Award must submit a separate and complete Affiliated Fellowships application in order to be considered.

Updated competition information and application/reference forms are available at: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/affiliated-fellowships-doctoral-program

 

SSHRC and NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral (CGS D):

Applicants applying through UBC will either be:

• currently registered at (or were registered at during the year of application), or are on an approved leave of absence from, a degree program at UBC
• not currently registered at UBC; or are registered, but not in a degree program; and have completed all of the requirements for a degree program from UBC since 1 January 2017

Both agencies have application forms and instructions online. Please see their websites for further information:

SSHRC: http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/fellowships/doctoral-doctorat-eng.aspx

NSERC: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/PG-CS/BellandPostgrad-BelletSuperieures_eng.asp

 

CIHR Doctoral Research Award:

Details for this funding opportunity are available on ResearchNet: https://www.researchnet-recherchenet.ca/rnr16/vwOpprtntyDtls.do?prog=2700

Institutional e-Approval for CIHR Doctoral Research Award is obtained from the Office of Research Services (ORS). Detailed requirements and e-submission procedures are available online at: https://ors.ubc.ca/proposal-development-submission/agency-application-requirements-procedures

UBC (ORS) deadline: 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, 26 September 2017

CIHR (ResearchNet) deadline: 5 p.m. (Vancouver time) on Tuesday, 3 October 2017.