LFS Research Café with Barbara Stefanska

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Join the next LFS Research Café on Wednesday, November 6!

Barbara Stefanska, Assistant Professor, Food, Nutrition, and Health, will discuss some of her research findings in a presentation titled “Eating the right foods to prevent disease: how your diet impacts DNA and gene functioning, and the link to long-term health outcomes.”

Everyone is welcome to this free event! Light refreshments will be served, but feel free to bring your lunch.

Details:
Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1019 (add to your Outlook calendar)
12:00pm – 12:50pm
Life Sciences Institute, room 1003, 2350 Health Sciences Mall

Click here to let us know if you’re coming!

2020 Annual Plant Science Graduate Student Symposium 

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My name is Berenice Romero and I am writing on behalf of University of Saskatchewan´s PSGSA. As we all know, next year´s Annual Plant Science Graduate Student Symposium will be taking place in Saskatchewan.

I would like to invite UBC graduate students to join us there and provide them with more information on when and where the symposium will be held.

U of S´s PSGSA has determined that the 2020 symposium will be occurring on Friday, March13th and Saturday, March 14th, at the U of S campus, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. As for abstract submission, the deadline will be February 1st. We are still working on our website so that students can submit their abstracts through it, but as soon as we finish it, I will get back to you with the link.

Registration is free and food will be covered by our organization.

Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions.

I look forward to seeing you there

Invitation 2020 Symposium- UBC

Berenice Romero, MSc. candidate

Office 4D22,

Department of Plant Sciences,

College of Agriculture and Bioresources,

University of Saskatchewan

Cell: (306) 227-8702

Affiliated Fellowships-Master’s and CGS-M Competitions Master-level – NSERC, SSHRC and CIHR

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NOTE: please notify Lia (lia.maria@ubc.ca) about your intention of applying ASAP but not later than Friday, November 22nd.

You may consider working on your CGS-M or Affiliated Fellowship application with your supervisor. Or at least have it reviewed by your supervisor before submit it. Once submitted, no corrections/updates would be possible. 

Please review the eligibility criteria, make sure you meet the requirements and have achieved a first-class average in EACH of the last two completed years of study (full-time equivalent) before submitting an application.

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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 graduate students can apply regardless of citizenship or visa status. Students who are eligible for CGS-M must submit a CGS-M application instead.

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 (NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR)

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships

General Guidelines for the Eligibility of Subject Matter

Applicants for Tri-Agency CGS-M competition must be domestic students (citizen or PR) who are applying for or enrolled in graduate studies anywhere in Canada. Each applicant can apply to 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 Affiliated Fellowships. To be considered for criteria-based affiliated fellowship, 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: 5 PM on Monday, 2 December 2019
Graduate program deadline:  4 PM on Friday, 31 January 2019

  • Stress the importance of the deadlineCGSM applications cannot be submitted or edited after the application deadline. The portal has crashed around the deadline a couple of years ago because too many students were submitting at the last minute. Submitting earlier (even on the day) will help.
  • Ask for reference letters early and send the instructions to your referees http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ResearchPortal-PortailDeRecherche/Instructions-Instructions/CGSM_REF-BESCM_REF_eng.asp
  • Order official transcripts for all previous studies (including transfer credits). If the official transcripts you have on file are up to date, I can provide you a PDF copy upon request. Note that UBC transcripts are required for students who had any studies at UBC before 2 December 2019, including September 2019 starts.
  • Grad Studies will accept printouts of Academic History from SISC in place of official UBC transcripts
  • They cannot accept any other unofficial transcripts
  • Note that the SISC academic history may not be accepted by other universities in Canada, so students applying elsewhere should order UBC transcripts

It would help us greatly if applicants used the same email as their portal login as in eVision or SIS. This is absolutely not a requirement, but it helps route the applications to correct programs quicker.

Entrepreneurship Course For Graduate Students: Tech Entrepreneurship (APSC541/BAEN506)

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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 DWaveZymeworks, 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 to April; and there are 3 critical and mandatory preliminary classes that take place in November dedicated to team formation (November 13, 20 and 27 – 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 deadlines and rolling admission in early August, September and November. Further details regarding the course are available at https://blogs.ubc.ca/baen506apsc541techentrepreneurship/ (please note that this URL has changed from last year).

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 phone in the near future.

Warmest Regards

 

DJ (David) Miller
Sauder School of Business
778.991.6602
djmiller@sauder.ubc.ca
https://www.linkedin.com/in/djmiller/

 

GPS Update: Business Writing + Time Management (Mitacs Training) + more!

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UBC is conducting its annual tuition consultation about proposed tuition fee increases. Learn more and join the conversation at consultations.students.ubc.ca

Registration is now open for:

Business Writing for Today’s Professional (Mitacs Training)| Wed., Oct 30 | 9 am  – 5 pm | Register here

Time Management (Mitacs Training)| Thur.,  Oct 31 | 9 am – 5 pm | Register here

 There are still seats remaining in this week’s:

Career Planning & Job Search Strategies | Tues., Oct 22 | 12 – 1:30 pm | Register here

Scholarship and Award Opportunities: CGS-M Masters (for 4th year undergrads or 1st year research-based Masters)| Mon., Oct 28 | In-Person: 10 am – 12 pm  | Webinar:  1:30 – 3pm

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

Academic Support and Success

Literature Reviews: “Analyzing (with NVivo)” | Oct 29 | 10 am – 12 pm

Introduction to “R” for statistical analysis | Oct 30 | 10 am – 12 pm

Lay Summaries: Writing Workshop | Nov 1 | 10 am – 12 pm

Applied Quantitative Methods (AQM) (yearlong workshop data science and machine learning workshop) – registration / application open now (with fees)

Career Exploration

Employers on Campus: Oct 28: Convergint Technologies  (5:30 – 7 pm) | Oct 30: PwC China & Hong Kong ( 6 – 7 pm)

Twitter: How to Win Followers and Influence People (Webinar) | Oct 30 | 11 am – 12: 30 pm

Events

Learning Analytics Hackathon (Canvas and Course Calendar data) | Nov 2 | 9: 30 am  – 5 pm

Graduate Research Foundations: Skills for Respectful Research ( Workshop Series Nov – Jan)

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/