Please circulate to all graduate students in your units. 

In alignment with UBC’s institutional commitments to the development of a more just, equitable, diverse and inclusive academic and research environment, UBC is taking action to improve the recruitment and support of outstanding Black scholars.

One dimension of this effort is the potential development of new doctoral completion and postdoctoral fellowship programs to provide enhanced opportunity and support for emerging Black scholars to advance their preparation for successful academic careers.

The envisioned doctoral completion fellowship would provide financial and mentorship support to final-year Black doctoral students to help them strengthen their academic profile for the academic job market.

The envisioned postdoctoral fellowship would provide salary and research funding, access to teaching opportunities, career development, and academic networking for cohorts of Black postdoctoral fellows across any academic discipline.

Current UBC-V Black doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars are invited to join an upcoming conversation to help shape the possibilities of this new program. This feedback is crucial in helping to design programs that can address needs and provide opportunities to emerging Black scholars.

An online survey version of this consultation is also available here. You are welcome to provide feedback using the survey, and/or register to attend a remote engagement session.

Engagement Dates and Registration Details:

For UBC-V Black doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars:

Tuesday March 1, 2022 3:30-5:00pm – click here to register

Wednesday March 2, 2022 9:30-11:00am – click here to register

 

Thank you for your consideration.

Dr. Ismaël Traoré, Director of Faculty Equity, UBCV Provost’s Office

Dr. Jenny Phelps, Assistant Vice-Provost, UBCV Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies

Kelli Kiyomi Kadokawa  (She, Her, Hers)
Graduate Program Support Manager
Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies | Office of the Dean
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus

xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Musqueam Traditional Territory
170-6371 Crescent Road | Vancouver British Columbia | V6T 1Z2 Canada
Phone 604 822 6475 Ext. 26475
kelli.kadokawa@ubc.ca | @UBCGradSchool | www.grad.ubc.ca

2022 Symposium on Global Community Engagement: Call for Proposals

The Office of Regional and International Community Engagement (ORICE) is hosting a symposium on global community engagement this year with a focus on the theme: Contested Spaces, Contested Impact on March 10th. We are now accepting applications for concurrent session presentations, workshops, dialogues etc. that engage with the theme of this ORICE symposium: Contested Spaces, Contested Impact. A broad interpretation of the theme is welcomed, but in selecting it we have considered some of the many questions that arise in community-university collaborations including physical and psychological questions of belonging, safety and power. We have considered conflicting and differently understood standpoints, expectations, motivations and purposes of engagement and in turn consider how the question of meaningful impact is also contested. Impact for who? By who? In what ways?

We invite UBC students at all academic levels to present on their community engaged scholarship and encourage the inclusion of community partners and faculty partners to co-present when applicable. While any type of presentation is welcome, we encourage applicants to expand on what one might consider to be a symposium presentation—feel free to bring in storytelling, creativity and anything else that might feel authentic to your work! The deadline to submit your completed application is February 18th, 2022 at 11:59 PM PST.

 

Stay tuned for the symposium general registration which opens on the morning of February 28th, 2022.

 

LEARN MORE

The Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm is excited to announce that registration for the first half of our 2022 community workshop series is now open!

The UBC Farm hosts a wide range of workshops covering everything from gardening to fermenting, foraging, and much more. This year, we have added several new workshops and brought back many favourites.  All of our workshops are beginner friendly and open to everyone, so please share with your networks (poster attached)!

For more details and to register, visit http://ubcfarm.ubc.ca/workshops/ or view our list of workshops below. Until further notice, all of workshops will be conducted online. Please sign up early, as popular workshops sell out. We hope to see you (virtually) at our workshops soon!

• *Online* Virtual Foraging for Survivalon February 24, 2022 6:00 pm
• *Online* Veggie Gardening 101on March 3, 2022 6:00 pm
• *Online* Starting Your Own Seedlingson March 10, 2022 6:00 pm
• *Online* How to Make Chai: Indian Spiced Teaon March 17, 2022 6:00 pm
• *Online* How to Make Fermented Kimchion March 31, 2022 6:00 pm
• *Online* Spring Foraging: Shoots, Leaves, and Edible Treeson April 21, 2022 6:00 pm
• *Online* Spring Mushroom Foragingon May 5, 2022 6:00 pm
• *Online* How to Make Traditional Indian Dalon May 12, 2022 6:00 pm
• *Online* Garden Problem-Solvingon June 2, 2022 6:00 pm
• *Online* How to Make Wild-Fermented Sodason June 9, 2022 6:00 pm

Sincerely,

Asha Wareham (She/Her/Hers)

Food Skills Education Work-Learn

Faculty of Land and Food Systems | Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm

The University of British Columbia | Unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Territory

3461 Ross Drive | Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1W5

ubcfarm.workshops@ubc.ca | www.ubcfarm.ubc.ca

Please help us disseminate the Esri Canada GIS Scholarship opportunity to UBC students by email and by displaying the attached poster (11 x 17) in your departments.   Successful recipient will receive:

• 1. one-time payment of $2,000
  2. three-year term license of ArcGIS for Student Use
  3. three-year Professional-level subscription to the ArcGIS Developer Program (ADP)
  4. digital copies of select Esri Press Publications
  5. two instructor-led training courses offered by Esri Canada
  6. registration for one of Esri Canada’s User Conferences
  7. a personal and editable profile in the Esri Canada GIS Scholarship Web Portal
  8. eligibility to apply for the Esri Canada Associate GIS Professional Program in year of graduation

2022EsriCanadaScholarship

Submission deadline is on Monday, March 7, 2022.

 

Thank you, and best regards,

Grace

Grace Ong

Licensing Coordinator

Faculty of Forestry | Dean’s Office
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus
grace.ong@ubc.ca | forestry.ubc.ca