After 32 years of dedicated service to the University of British Columbia, we are sad to announce the retirement of Shelley Small, the Manager of the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at the Faculty of Land and Food Systems.

Shelley supported, guided, and manifested immense compassion for our graduate students. Their success and well-being were always her priority. As we bid farewell to Shelley, we express our deepest gratitude for her invaluable contributions over the years. Her legacy will endure through the impact she has made on our graduate community, and through the plaque in the Dean’s office, honouring the winners of an award that she created: the graduate thesis and dissertation award.

We at the graduate office will miss Shelley’s presence dearly. Please join us in extending our warmest wishes for her retirement.

Kind regards,

Sumeet and Lia Maria