Greetings:

Annually, we reach out with the goal of promoting a truly practical, experiential and real-world course focused on technology entrepreneurship.

Tech Entrepreneurship (APSC541/BAEN506) has been running for over 25 years and has facilitated many entrepreneurial ventures and realized numerous successful breakout companies such as DWave, Zymeworks, Barrelwise and Recon Instruments – just to name a few.   This course pairs graduate business and APSC/STEM students to provide an experience-based introduction into the lean start-up process. It is a real-life simulation of the process that founders go through when starting a high-tech company. Students will be faced with the key issues involved in evaluating market opportunities, building a prototype, designing profitable business models, producing a solid business plan, raising capital, addressing legal considerations and developing a winning team. Students will gain the skills and tools to creatively commercialize high-tech research into profitable businesses. Teams will be expected to develop credible pitches that will be made to industry professionals.  Some of these student companies go on to participate in e@UBC, the Hatch and Creative Destruction Lab.

The core of the course runs on Wednesday evenings from January-April 2022; and there are 3 critical and mandatory preliminary classes that take place in late November/early December dedicated to team formation (Nov 18, 25 and Dec 2 – 6pm).  The course is taught by a team of business and STEM/APSC instructors for a well-rounded business and technical perspective.

The course has an application process for admission as it is very competitive with an early admission application deadline of October 15^th and a final application deadline of November 7^th . Further details regarding the course are available at https://blogs.ubc.ca/baen506apsc541techentrepreneurship/

We have had strong interest from your faculty in the past, and would greatly appreciate your support to promote the course amongst your graduate students.

To further support this message, we would be pleased to arrange an info session at a time that is convenient for your faculty – to hear from course lecturers, former students and/or now successful entrepreneurs who participated in the course.

Please let us know how we can support your promotion of this course, and feel free to contact us should you require any further information.  We will follow-up by email and phone in the near future.

Warmest Regards

 

 

DJ (David) Miller
UBC-Sauder School of Business
djmiller@sauder.ubc.ca

 

TA Hours: 50 hrs – FNH 345 January to April 2022

Email contact information – sinead.feeney@ubc.ca 

Course overview:

This course will introduce students to counselling in dietetics. The role of privilege, systemic identities, internal and external biases, core beliefs, personal values and expectations will also be considered. Topics will include communication theory, foundational counselling skills, theories of behaviour change, motivational interviewing, goal setting, learning abilities and styles, obstacles to effective communication, Safe and Effective Use of Self (SEUS), multicultural competence, and ethical standards in nutrition counselling.

Work Performed:

Use moderately detailed marking guides to mark class assignments and projects. Submit the verified marks to the instructor using an Excel spreadsheet. Be available for occasional office hours at particular times prior to assignments/projects being due and be able to correspond by email when needed. Meet with students after assignments have been returned to refer unresolved queries about grading to the instructor. Assist with posting lectures and assignments to canvas and other communications. Attend some of the lectures to assist instructor with activities during the lecture.

Minimum qualifications and skills

Education and knowledge requirements: Preference will be given to graduate students in Human Nutrition, Health Sciences and Counselling psychology who have obtained an undergraduate degree in nutrition or dietetics and have a thorough understanding of nutrition, health and counselling techniques. Certificates in any continued education in counselling methods/skills an asset. Skills: Ability to correspond effectively with the instructor and to ask questions when uncertain about grading responsibilities. Ability to maintain accuracy and attention to detail (marking assignments, entering data into spreadsheets). Ability to communicate effectively with the students with their questions. Ability to navigate Canvas and Zoom.

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I am the sessional instructor for the new course FNH 345 Counselling in Dietetics course.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to be in touch and I greatly appreciate your help in getting the word out for this position!

Best wishes and many thanks

Sinead

Sinéad Feeney, MSc, RD

She, her, hers
Cardiac Dietitian, Heart Centre
St. Paul’s Hospital | Providence Health Care
Clinical and Sessional Instructor | University of British Columbia

sfeeney@providencehealth.bc.ca

sinead.feeney@ubc.ca

Please pass on the attached information about the BC Food Protection Scholarship.

2021 BCFPA Scholarship Announcement

The BCFPA is giving out two awards ($1,500 and $1,000) based on a submitted essay.  This year’s topic is:

Food safety and food systems in Indigenous communities

Thanks,
Justin

Justin Falardeau, MSc
Email: justin.falardeau@ubc.ca

PhD Candidate
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinfalardeau/

Wang Lab of Molecular Food Safety
Cell: 778-835-7868

Faculty of Land and Food Systems

University of British Columbia

Please notify Iris or Lia (see emails below) about your intention of applying by November 15, 2021

Lia – lia.maria@ubc.ca

Iris – lfs.gradasst@ubc.ca

UBC Affiliated Fellowships-Master’s

The UBC Affiliated Fellowships Master’s competition runs in concert with the Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s (CGS-M; see below) competition. Approximately 50 fellowship with values ranging from $175 to $16,000 are offered through this competition. Current and prospective full-time UBC-Vancouver graduate students can apply regardless of citizenship or visa status. Students who are eligible for the CGS-M must submit a CGS-M application in order to additionally be considered for Affiliated funding.

Detailed Affiliated Fellowships-Master competition information with links to application and reference forms is available at:
https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/affiliated-fellowships-masters-program.

Tri-Agency Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s (CGS-M)

Applicants for Tri-Agency CGS-M competition must be domestic students (Canadian citizen or PR) who are applying for or enrolled in graduate studies anywhere in Canada. Each applicant can select up to 3 universities with the same application. To be considered for a CGS-M at UBC, they must select The University of British Columbia as one of the 3 available institutions.

Details about this award opportunity, including eligibility and evaluation criteria, are available at:
 http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/PG-CS/CGSM-BESCM_eng.asp and our site at https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/canada-graduate-scholarships-masters-cgs-m-program.

Students who apply for CGS-M awards will automatically be considered for open/un-restricted Affiliated Fellowships.
To be considered for criteria-based Affiliated Fellowships, students should fill out and submit to their graduate programs the checklist available at:  https://www.grad.ubc.ca/forms/list-criteria-based-affiliated-fellowships.

UBC Deadlines for the Tri-Agency CGS-M / Affiliated Fellowships Master’s Competitions

• Applicant deadline:1 December 2021 before 5:00 pm PST
• Graduate program nomination deadline:  Late January (nomination deadline will be indicated in December)

CGSM and Affiliated Fellowships-Master’s information session

• Interested applicants are invited to attend the CGSM information session on Friday, October 22 from 10:30 to 12:00.  REGISTER HERE.

What you can do now:

• Importance of the application deadline.  CGS-M applications cannot be submitted or edited after the application deadline.  Late applications will be ruled ineligible. The CGS-M application deadline is set nationally by the CGS-M funding agency and is not flexible.
• Please ask for reference letters early and to send the instructions to your referees
  http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ResearchPortal-PortailDeRecherche/Instructions-Instructions/CGSM_REF-BESCM_REF_eng.asp.
• Check early if you have all of your official transcripts for all previous studies (including transfer credits). Transcript guidance for applicants is outlined on our CGS-M webpage.
• Note that although the SISC academic history document is accepted for UBC CGS-M applications, it may not be accepted by other universities in Canada, so students applying elsewhere for the CGSM in addition to UBC should order official UBC transcripts.
• It would help us greatly if you are using the same email in your CGS-M Research Portal login as in eVision or SIS. This is absolutely not a requirement, but it helps route the applications to correct programs quicker after the application deadline.

 

Please share the following announcement as appropriate.  Note that this award is externally administered; faculty members nominate their students directly to IBM (departments do not nominate applicants).

IBM PhD Fellowship Award

Since 1951, the IBM PhD Fellowship Program has collaborated with faculty, students and universities by recognizing and supporting exceptional PhD students that address focused areas of interest in technology.

Interested applicants must be nominated by a doctoral faculty member (faculty member nominates the applicant directly to IBM). The nominator provides the supporting documentation (CV, dissertation description, etc.), categorizes the student’s initial career interests, and submits the nomination for evaluation.

All nominees:

• must be nominated by a doctoral faculty member; students cannot nominate themselves.
• must be enrolled full-time in a PhD program over the two consecutive academic years of the award or forfeit the fellowship.
• should have three years remaining in their program at the time of nomination so the fellowship can be applied to the last two years of study.
• that are from U.S. embargoed countries are not eligible for the program.
• that are receiving a comparable fellowship, internship, or support from another company or institution (except for academic scholarships) during the IBM PhD Fellowship funding period are ineligible for this award
• must stay in the same program for the duration of the award —no transferring of departments or schools.

Value: $6,000 to $25,000 per year

Nomination deadline: November 5, 2021 at 2:00 pm PT (5:00 pm ET)

For more information, including nomination procedures, please see the IBM webpage (https://research.ibm.com/university/awards/fellowships.html) and FAQ (https://research.ibm.com/university/awards/fellowships-faq.html).  Questions should be directed to phdfellow@us.ibm.com.