Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada (SWAAC) Graduate Student Award of Merit

​​The Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada organization was founded in 1987 to provide a forum and a collective voice for women in senior administrative ranks in Canadian universities, colleges and technical institutes.

At least three awards, each in the amount of $3,500, will be awarded annually to the women graduate students who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in the university or general community while maintaining exemplary academic records.

The application deadline for this opportunity is November 1, 2019 at 4:00 pm PST.

For more information, including application procedures and eligibility requirements, please see this link: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/senior-women-academic-administrators-canada-swaac-graduate-student-award-merit

Registration is now open for:

Networking Skills (Mitacs) | Wed, Oct 16 | 9 AM – 5 PM | Register here

Increase your Article’s Chance of Publication | Thurs, Oct 17 | 10 AM – 12 PM  | Register here

Financial Pressures | Oct 24 | 11:30 AM – 1 PM (lunch provided) | Register here

 

There are still seats remaining in this week’s:

Statistics I: Data Exploration through Descriptive Statistics and Graphics (via Webinar) | Tues, Oct 08 | 10 AM – 12 PM | Register here

Overcoming Perfectionism | Thurs, Oct 10 | 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Register here

 

Check out community.grad.ubc.ca for these, and other, opportunities: 

 

Graduate School Success

NVivo (Part 2) for Mac – Classification and Datasets | Oct 15 | 10 AM – 12 PM

Introduction to Python | Oct 16 | 10 AM – 12 PM

Introduction to R | Oct 16 | 2 – 4 PM

Thriving in Grad School Panel discussion  | Oct 17 | 3:15 – 4:45 PM

Graduate Instructional Skills Workshop | Nov 24, 30 and Dec 7 | waitlist registration opens Oct 7

 

Workshop / Lecture

“Should ‘Clinical study reports’ ” be included in Cochrane Systematic reviews? | Oct 30 | 12 – 1 PM (available by videoconference)

 

Career Building

Employer on Campus: Fluor Canada Inc. |Oct 16 |  5:30 – 6:30 PM

How to Network Effectively: Leveraging LinkedIn (presented by Wonsulting) | Oct 17 | 5:30 – 7 PM

 

Funding

Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) – Student Initiative Fund | apply by Oct 18

Mitacs-JSPS Summer Program (for research projects in Japan) | apply by Nov 27

 

 

Please let me know if you have questions.

Thank you,
Jacqui.

 

Jacqui Brinkman, MSc
Director, Graduate Student Professional Development
Office of the Dean | Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueum Traditional Territory
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/

UBC’s BeeHIVE Research Excellence Cluster is pleased to host a public talk by Dr. Jeff Pettis, President of Apimondia (International Federation of Beekeepers’ Associations), and retired USDA entomologist.

Tickets are available at beehive3.eventbrite.ca.

Please see the poster below for event details.

BeeHIVE is headed by Dr. Dominique Weis (Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences), and the research cluster’s mission is to improve bee and pollinator health through academic research and community involvement.