Please note that the second session of graduate student input for UBC Graduate Education Plan has been cancelled: 

• Friday, February 2, 3:00-4:30pm – DHCC 2267, Diamond Health Care Centre, Vancouver General Hospital 

The other sessions are scheduled as follows: 

• Thursday, February 1, 3:00-4:30pm – room 200, Graduate Studies Building, 6371 Crescent Road
• Monday, February 5, 3:00-4:30pm – LSC 1312, Life Sciences Centre, 2350 Health Sciences Mall  

We strongly encourage graduate students to attend one of these sessions. Please click on the following link to rsvp: RSVP to Graduate Student Input for UBC Graduate Education Plan. 

Thank you,

Josephine for Dean Porter

Douglas McRorie Memorial Scholarship

for graduate students specializing in agricultural business, economics, finance or trade 

The Canadian Foundation for Food and Agricultural Education* invites applications for The Douglas McRorie Memorial Scholarship. 

The scholarship was named in recognition of the significant contribution Douglas McRorie, PAg, FAIC, made to agricultural finance throughout his career with the Royal Bank of Canada, his involvement in agricultural banking and agricultural economics, and his belief in continuous training.  The scholarship is made available through the support of the RBC Foundation.

The Douglas McRorie Memorial Scholarship will provide financial support to Masters or PhD students specializing in agricultural business, economics, finance or trade.

Two scholarships will be offered in 2018: 

$3,000 Masters level

$5,000 PhD level

 

Scholarships are awarded on the following criteria:

s  Agricultural post-graduate student

s  Emphasis in research related to agricultural business/commerce/economics/trade

s  Academic record

s  Leadership and community service

s  Work experience and career interests

s  Letters of recommendation

 

2018 Application Guidelines and Application Form can be found online at cffae.ca.

 

Deadline for application is March 9, 2018 

Canadian Foundation for Food and Agricultural Education 

300 Earl Grey Drive, Suite 233, Ottawa, Ontario K2T 1C1

manager@cffae.ca    |     www.cffae.ca

 

 

*formerly the Agricultural Institute of Canada Foundation

 Woodward Library currently subscribes to the complete collection of Canadian Standards Association (CSA) standards from IHS, including active and withdrawn standards:

https://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?details=csa-standards&id=953  

Our subscription expires February 19th. Usually databases increase in price by 3%-10% per year. Our 2018 invoice includes a 464% price increase to keep only 8% (approximately 500) of the standards collection that we currently have. In order to maintain access to the entire package of active and withdrawn standards, the cost increase is 557%. 

UBC librarians are investigating alternative ways to purchase CSA standards. It’s likely that we will lose access to many of the standards we have now, so we are prioritizing the most highly used and requested standards. Our current CSA subscription includes some adopted ISO standards. One alternative we are looking into is purchasing the ISO version of selected standards rather than the CSA version. 

UBC Library also subscribes to other standards online, including ASTM, IEEE, and we purchase some standards in print on request. Details on our full standards collection are available here: http://guides.library.ubc.ca/standards 

If you use CSA or ISO standards in your teaching or research, could you please let us know which standards are most important to you? Please send your feedback to Ursula Ellis, ursula.ellis@ubc.ca, by Friday, February 16th. Thank you.  

Katherine Miller  MLIS

Reference Librarian
Nursing and Faculty of Land and Food Systems Librarian: Agricultural Economics, Agriculture, Agroecology, Animal Science, Animal Welfare, Human Nutrition, Food Science, Global Resource Systems, Plant Science, Soil Science, Wine Research

 

Woodward Library
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
2198 Health Sciences Mall | Vancouver, BC | V6T 1Z3 Canada
katherine.miller@ubc.ca | 604-822-0295
http://woodward.library.ubc.ca/

UBC – Faculty of Land and Food Systems Announces 

The Oral Examination for the Degree of 

MSc in Human Nutrition 

Dalal QANAQ

Association of maternal folate and Vitamin B 12 status with birthweight and gestational age

at birth in mother-newborn dyads residing in British Columbia 

Friday, February 9, 2018 at  2:30 pm
Room 300 – FNH Building 

 

Supervisory committee:
Dr. Y. Lamers– Supervisor
Dr. J. Black – Committee member
Dr. P. Janssen – Committee member 

Defense Committee Composition
Dr. Z. Xu – Chair
Dr. Y. Lamers– Supervisor
Dr. J. Black – Committee member
Dr. P. Janssen – Committee member
Dr. R. Elango – External

Registration is now open for:

Showcasing your Graduate Research in UBC’s Open Access Digital Repository: Help with Copyright and More

Tue, Feb 6, 12:30 PM– 2:00 PM @ Thea Koerner House

Register at: www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/16674-showcasing-your-graduate-research-ubcs-open-access-digital-repository-help

 

Introduction to Interacting with the Media

Wed, Feb 7, 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM @ Thea Koerner House

Register at: www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/16673-introduction-interacting-media 

Practice your Presentation Skills I

Thu, Feb 8, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM @ Thea Koerner House

Register at: www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/16374-practice-your-presentation-skills-i 

Visit community.grad.ubc.ca for other opportunities including:

Nominate an Exceptional Student Leader by Feb 12 | community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/4371

Run for a GSS Student Exec Position by Feb 22 | community.grad.ubc.ca/article/4372-run-gss-student-executive-position

Antimicrobial Resistance Symposium, Mar 1 | community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/4326  

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/