MFRE Speaker Series – Friday Nov 3^rd, 2017: Habibis Mediterranean Foods

Habibis Mediterranean Foods, Locally produced, Made in Canada, Healthy, Non GMO, Kosher, Fresh ingredients.

Speakers: Abe Chabaan, Founder / Co-Owner & Sofia Farah – Chaaban, Marketing

2pm in MCML160

All are invited!

Gabrielle Menard  MFRE Academic Coordinator, Graduating Projects Manager Land and Food Systems | Master of Food and Resource Economics The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus 348A-2357 Main Mall | Vancouver British Columbia | V6T 1Z4 Canada Cell 604 764 0305 gabrielle.menard@ubc.ca http://mfre.landfood.ubc.ca/

UBC 3MT® 2018 will start with heats in February. Semi-finals are Tuesday, Mar 13 @ Thea Koerner House and the final is Thursday, Mar 15 @ Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre

To obtain a 3MT® heat organizer package or to request a ‘Presenting your research’ workshop with Jacqui, please e-mail graduate.pathways@ubc.ca  

Please forward the below information to your graduate students. 

Spots still available for this week’s :

Live Well to Learn Well (#LetsThriveUBC; a Thrive week event)… learn about managing time and stress as a graduate student

In person: Oct 31, 10 AM | www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/16247-live-well-learn-well

Webinar: Oct 31, 1 PM PDT | www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/16249-live-well-learn-well-webinar 

Overcoming Perfectionism (#LetsThriveUBC; a Thrive week event)…learn what drives perfectionism and develop strategies to manage it
Nov 2, 9:30 AM | www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/16169-overcoming-perfectionism

 

Scholarship Opportunities for Master’s Students (CGS-M Competition)

In person: Nov 3, 9 AM | www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/16489-scholarship-opportunities-masters-students-applying-cgs-m-competition

Webinar: Nov 3, 2 PM PDT | www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/16524-scholarship-opportunities-masters-students-applying-cgs-m-competition-webinar

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

A new career exploration tool for Social Sciences and Humanities (http://imaginephd.com/ ) launched last week.  See a live demo Wed, Nov 1^st @5:30 PM   https://community.grad.ubc.ca/event/4147

Join a Graduate Student Writing Community! | community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/4137

Canadian Foundation for Innovation Photo Contest on Twitter | community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/4107

Formatting your Thesis, Nov 7, 12:30 PM | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/3936

SPSS Part 2, Nov 8, 10 AM | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/3998

Career Directions for Grad Students, Nov 9, 4:30 PM | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/4086

Immigration Pathway Info Session, Nov 10, 3:30 PM | community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/4144

 

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/

The FuturAgua project: 

Fostering regional drought resilience in Northwestern Costa Rica through international collaborative action research

Thursday, November 23, 2017

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory Building

2202 Main Mall, UBC Point Grey Campus

Vancouver

Research Seminar: 12:30-1:30pm, AERL Theatre (room 120)

Poster Session + Lunch: 1:30-2:30pm, AERL Foyer
RSVP required for lunch: futuraguaproject@gmail.com

The FuturAgua project is an international, multidisciplinary, action-oriented research program involving three teams of researchers, funded by granting agencies in three countries, all focused on applied research to help build resilience to drought in the dry tropical northwest part of Costa Rica. The project was conceptualized, developed, and carried out in close collaboration with civil society groups and regional agencies that work to address important water questions in the region.

This presentation will address the context, design, process, and key findings of the research conducted by UBC researchers, with input from the team members at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Andrea Suarez, Director of the Centre for Mesoamerica for Sustainable Development of the Dry Tropics (CEMEDE) at the National University of Costa Rica, will provide regional perspectives on the project. The researchers will highlight some of the factors that led to the main successes of the project, and also reflect on some of the challenges of conducting a research project of this kind.

After the seminar, there will be a poster session to showcase the project’s main research findings. Lunch will be served (RSVP required)

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS 

Tim McDaniels

Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning

Douw Steyn

Professor Emeritus, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS)

Mark Johnson

Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) and EOAS

Kai Chan

Professor, IRES

INTERNATIONAL GUEST 

Andrea Suarez

Director of the Centre for Mesoamerica for Sustainable Development of the Dry Tropics (CEMEDE), National University of Costa Rica

RESEARCHERS

Silja Hund

PhD Student EOAS

Laura Morillas

Postdoctoral Research Fellow IRES and EOAS

Paige Olmsted

Postdoctoral Fellow IRES, Visiting Fellow Copenhagen Business School

Alejandra Echeverri

PhD Student IRES

Daniel Karp

Former Killam Postdoctoral Fellow IRES, Assistant Professor, Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology UC Davis

Dear Colleagues, 

Thank you for your continued support of UBC graduation.  

Official invitations to our fall ceremonies have now been sent and grad is just around the corner – November 22 -24. See here for the complete schedule. We can’t wait to mark this special moment for our students and to welcome their families to campus to celebrate.  

This Fall, we have expanded our online Graduation Volunteer Registration system to include all of our volunteer roles: Macebearer, Faculty Marshal, Student Marshal and Student Usher. 

In the past volunteers have communicated interest to participate in different ways:  directly to University Marshal, Professor Nancy Hermiston, to Senior Student Marshal, Professor Iain Taylor, to Ceremonies and perhaps through the main graduation reservation system. However, with the growth of ceremonies as well as volunteer functions, we kindly request that all volunteers please register on the graduation volunteer sign up page. Here you will find very detailed instructions for each of the four key roles needed for graduation to succeed. 

Please forward this email to anyone you think would like to participate as a volunteer this year – the more the merrier. Training is provided. 

We will do our best to accommodate all requests but please understand that no role is confirmed until a volunteer has received an official confirmation from the Ceremonies Office via email.  

With great thanks, 

Melissa 

Melissa Picher Kelly , B.A.

Academic Events Manager | Ceremonies & Events Office

The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory

2029 West Mall, Ponderosa B | Vancouver, BC  | Canada V6T 1Z2

T 604 822 5414 | F 604 822 9060 | M 604 649 0102 | E Melissa.picherkelly@ubc.ca

www.ceremonies.ubc.ca  | www.graduation.ubc.ca

Fall Experience Science Day 2017 Don’t let the November rain get you down! Join us for Experience Science Day! An annual event that welcomes 200 elementary school students from Downtown East Side to UBC to experience hands-on scientific activities.  Thanks to volunteers like you this program has become highly successful and is held twice each year, reaching twice as many youths and encouraging their participation in science. We’re looking for enthusiastic volunteers to run hands-on science activities, including Rube Goldberg Device construction, for groups of 20-30 students in Grades 4-7.

When: November 8th, 2017. 9:00am-2:30pm Where: UBC Who: Grades 4-7 Students

Interested volunteers please sign up here (https://goo.gl/forms/sh5zGgXca6rK4pjr1) or contact Andrew atcommunity@ubclts.com.

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Let’s Talk Neuroscience High School Symposium Let’s Talk Science is partnering up with the Belkin Art Gallery on campus which is hosting the works of Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the father of neuroscience, to bring forth the Let’s Talk Neuroscience symposium for students in grades 9-12. We need enthusiastic volunteers who can help facilitate demos, guide students across the campus, and several other tasks. The symposium will feature a keynote talk by Dr. Cheryl Wellington, neuroanatomy demo by Dr. Claudia Krebs, and a tour of the Cajal exhibit.

When: Nov 20th, 2017. 9:00am-3:30pm Where: UBC (Centre for Brain Health) Who: Grades 9-12 students

Interested volunteers please sign up here (https://goo.gl/forms/PWagGTN51Zn6sDhx1) or contact Evelyn at community@ubclts.com.

Sincerely,

Evelyn

Community Events Coordinator

Email: community@ubclts.com

Website: www.ubclts.com

Twitter: @ubclts