Win Tickets to the UBC Harvest Festival!

LFS is giving away two tickets to one Graduate student to attend this year’s Harvest Festival with a friend, on Thursday, September 20^th! Simply enter your name here to win: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ac31sDRJ2SWL4hv

Nothing says “cozy” like a night of food, art and culture to bring in the fall season. This year marks the fifth year of Harvest Festival, an epic feast featuring fresh local food from the UBC Farm, followed by an evening of arts and culture programming. More information available here: https://planning.ubc.ca/vancouver/news-events/harvest-feastival

The contest is open to all graduate students at LFS, and the last day to enter is Wednesday, September 12^th. The winner will be connected by email on September 13^th.

The UBC Let’s Talk Science Partnership Program matches volunteers or pair of students from UBC into K-12 classrooms in Vancouver. The volunteer(s) lead the class in hands-on/minds-on science activities as a means to engage children and youth and get them interested in the sciences.

No experience necessary, everyone is welcome. You will be trained before you go to classrooms!

Expectations of Volunteers

• Fill out the application form (https://goo.gl/forms/spjvAnqrhZLArJVH2)
• Rank your preference of teachers to get matched (teacher list will be sent in Oct)
• Make 3 visits to your partner school throughout the year 2018-2019
• Log your visits on the Let’s Talk Science Portal
• If you are new to TPP, attend mandatory training on Oct 13th, 2018 (11am-1pm MSL 101) if you cannot attend still sign up but note that in your application.

For more information contact: partnership@ubclts.com

GPS Events:

Registration is now open for:

Getting on Track with your Thesis

Wed, Jul 25 | 1PM – 5 PM @Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

For details and to register: grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/16952-getting-track-your-thesis

 

Thesis Boot Camp

Thu, Jul 26 | 10 AM – 4 PM @Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

For details and to register: grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/16976-thesis-boot-camp

 

Mitacs

There are still a few spaces remaining in this week’s Mitacs Foundations of Proj Mgmt 1@Robson Square (July 11,12) + Designing a Career Plan July 19&20

Registration info at community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/4898

 

Check out community.grad.ubc.ca for other opportunities including:

Volunteer for New Graduate Student Orientation | community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/4968

NVivo for PC Workshop, Jul 17 | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/4705

Formatting your Thesis, Jul 18 | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/4714

SPSS Workshop, Jul 19 | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/4728

Lay Summaries: Telling your Research Story to the Wider World, Jul 20 | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/4729

 

Thank you,

Jacqui.

Jacqui Brinkman
Director of Graduate Student Professional Development
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/

Call for Nominations: Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships

Note: This scholarship is for students pursuing their first doctoral degree. Students pursuing course-based degrees are not eligible.

The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (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 is completed online on ResearchNet: https://www.researchnet-recherchenet.ca/rnr16/LoginServlet

The deadline for applicants to inform the LFS grad program office of their intent to apply is August 6, 2018.  Please email lfs.gradmgr@ubc.ca of your intent to apply.

The deadline for applicants to submit applications on ResearchNet is 11:59 pm (PDT – Vancouver time) on Thursday, 6 September 2018.

The deadline for graduate programs to submit nominations to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies is 4:00 pm on Tuesday, 25 September 2018.

For more information, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/vanier-scholarship

Important note on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion:  The Vanier CGS program encourages equity, diversity and inclusion, as part of the Tri-Agency’s broader commitment to excellence in research and research training in Canada. Resources for applicants, institutions, referees and the selection committees are available at: http://www.vanier.gc.ca/en/equity_diversity_inclusion-equite_diversite_inclusion.html. Applicants are encouraged to review the resources before they begin writing their application.

For other Vanier CGS program news and reminders, please visit: http://www.vanier.gc.ca/en/news-nouv_2018-19.html

Re: unique brainstorming session

The “Idea Rally” will be a unique online collaboration for people from many different disciplines to help solve an interesting chemistry/materials/Food Science problem.   The session is “open source”, with anyone being able to use any of the ideas generated.   The event would be perfect for students who want to take part in a real-world solving session.

There will be prizes given away for participation, totaling $10,000.  There are no specific time requirements.

You can find out more about it here:

https://www.ideaconnection.com/idea-rally/matrix-release/

Please feel free to pass this on to anyone who you think may be interested.

All the best and thank you for your time,

Paul

 

Paul Wagorn

President

www.IdeaConnection.com