Do your studies focus on/involve geomatics?   If yes, you are invited to an event, which brings together potential employers and highly qualified graduate students. 

Geomatics Career Networking Event

An afternoon of discovery, mingling and community

The event will include:

• A brief overview of attending organizations – including any pertinent employment, intern and volunteering opportunities
• Opportunities to meet individually with attending organizations (each will have a table)
• Coffee, tea, and snacks
  

Friday, February 7,2020

1:00-3:30pm

Jack Poole Hall

The Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre,

6163 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1

This event is hosted by MGEM, Master of Geomatics in Environmental Management, a professional master’s program blending technical and quantitative geospatial skills with the appropriate landscape ecology backdrop.

If interested, please RSVP by January 31, 2020. Please see poster attached.

career networking event

 

UBC – Faculty of Land and Food Systems Announces The Oral Examination for the Degree of

Master of Science (Food Science)

Zhong (Marti) Hua

“Development of Microfluidic Paper-based Analytical Device to Detect Chemical Hazards in Food”

Tuesday, December 10th, 2019 at 1:00pm
Room 140, FNH Bldg. 

EXAMINING COMMITTEE  

Chair: Dr. MS. Wang 

Supervisory Committee:
Dr. X. Lu – Supervisor
Dr. S. Castellarin – Committee member
Dr. P. Li – Committee member

Defense Committee Composition
Dr. X. Lu – Supervisor
Dr. P. Li – Committee member
Dr. R. Cerri – External examiner

Everyone is welcome

 

You’re invited to celebrate World Soil Day with the PRSSS!

In-person Event: 3  – 6pm, Thursday December 5, Agora Cafe (basement of MacMillan building, UBC)

Come try your hand at painting with soils! All the supplies will be provided. Here’s some inspiration to get you excited.

We’ll also have soil-themed snacks and PRSSS merchandise for sale.

Drop by anytime between 3 and 6pm!

Event Website

Remote Event: Fact collection for themed deck of cards

If you can’t attend the UBC event, don’t worry, there’s another way to participate!

The PRSSS is making a custom deck of playing cards with different fun soil facts on each card. Help us share our love and knowledge of soils by submitting your favourite soil fact(s) here! Facts should be understandable by the general public. Please make submissions max 50 words. We hope to have the decks available for purchase by our Spring AGM and Workshop next year.

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This is a friendly reminder from the Doctoral Exams Office that the first deadline for Doctoral Candidates who would like to graduate in May 2020 is this week. The deadlines for Doctoral Examination and Dissertation Submission are as follows:

• Friday, November 29, 2019: Appointment of External Examiner form submitted to Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.
• Friday, January 24, 2020: Doctoral dissertation and supporting documentation submitted to Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.
• Friday, March 20, 2020: Last day for Oral Defence.
• Friday, April 17, 2020: Acceptance of final approved dissertation by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (cIRcle submission).

There is more information available on our website, and if you have questions, please email graduate.doctoral@ubc.ca.

Stay warm!

Best,
Robyn

Robyn Starkey
Doctoral Exams Coordinator
Office of the Dean | Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
The University of British Columbia 170 – 6371 Crescent Road | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z2 Canada
Phone 604 822 3989
robyn.starkey@ubc.ca
http://www.grad.ubc.ca

We wish to communicate to all students the opportunity to apply for Executive Business programs in California.

I’m Professor Ricardo Britto, one of the associates responsible for coordinating short-term certificate programs in partnership with California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and University of La Verne (ULV).

Designed to take place during school breaks, our three-week programs are held in January, July and, if you’re a postgraduate, September the courses include company visits, interviews with executives, lectures, seminars, group presentations and business simulations.

Our mission is to encourage cross-cultural cooperation and make studying abroad an experience as accessible as possible, therefore partial scholarships that cover 70% of the tuition fees are being granted.

Courses at CSUN are Business English, Communication Design and Innovation, Digital Companies, Leadership in an Age of Disruption and the E-Business Revolution and Design Thinking and Innovation. At ULV they are Business English, Finance and Accounting, Leading and Coaching the Human Organization, Strategy and Marketing, Contemporary Topics in Public Administration.

You can find detailed information in the Brochure.

Our team provides significant support to students before and during trips, background readings, logistical assistance, visa orientation, and more.

Click here to learn more.

The application deadline is December 08^th, 2019

I’m looking forward to hearing from you!

Best Regards,

 

Prof. Ricardo Britto, PhD
profr.britto@ibs-americas.com
PhD in Administration at University of Sao Paulo
Scholarship Coordinator