New Final Grade Submission Tool: Training and Live Support Available!

Are you working as a Teaching Assistant (TA) this term? With the transition to Workday’s Final Grade Submission Tool (FGST), we want to ensure you’re supported as you prepare to input grades.

To help you navigate this change, Enrolment Services is offering:

• Q&A Sessions on Zoom: Drop in to review the grade entry process, ask questions, and troubleshoot.
• Live Troubleshooting Support: Available via email between December 9-23.

Whether you’re uploading grades or making manual entries, these resources are here to make the process smoother.

???? Full details and session schedules are available on the Resources and Support for UBC faculty and instructors webpage.

Don’t miss these opportunities to get your questions answered and ensure grade submissions are stress-free.

IOF SEMINAR – December 6, 2024

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Graduate Student Presentations

 

Ruth Arnold (MSc OCF)

Baseline population assessments for three key seahorse species in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

 

Denis Coskuner (MSc OCF)

Temporal and spatial dynamics of nearshore zooplankton communities in the Strait of Georgia

 

Rhys Jenson (MSc OCF)

Plastics in the poop. Are humpback whales eating trash?

 

Julia Mayer (PhD OCF)

Seaforestation in British Columbia under climate change

 

Antoine Mesple (MSc OCF)

Projecting exposure of marine heatwave hazards for exploited marine species in the Pacific Ocean

 

Stephanie Moore (PhD OCF)

Investigating urbanisation-driven changes in marine ecosystem structure and function

 

Alex Schmill (MSc OCF)

Integrating seasonal eDNA and dynamic models to track biodiversity through changing oceans

 

Friday, December 6, 2024 – 11:00am  – 12:00 pm

AERL Theatre and over Zoom

 

IOF community members (students, faculty and staff) do not need to RSVP for this seminar series.

UBC members, alumni, and all others, RSVP REQUIRED:

https://oceans.ubc.ca/rsvp-iof-seminars/

Note that applicants apply directly to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies; graduate programs do not submit nominations.

Mackenzie King Memorial Scholarships

The Mackenzie King Open Scholarship is open to graduates of any Canadian university who engage in (commence or continue) graduate study (master’s or doctoral) in any field, in Canada or elsewhere. One Open Scholarship is awarded annually. The value has lately been $12,000 but is subject to change. 

The Mackenzie King Travelling Scholarship is open to graduates of any Canadian university who engage in (commence or continue) graduate study (master’s or doctoral) in the United States or the United Kingdom, of international relations or industrial relations (including the international or industrial relations aspects of law, history, politics and economics).  Four Travelling Scholarships of $13,500 have lately been awarded annually, but the number and value of scholarships are subject to change.

Eligible applicants must be a graduate (holder of a degree) of a Canadian university when tenure of the scholarship begins (September 2025).

Applications must be made to the Faculty of Graduate Studies of the applicant’s home university. This is the Canadian university from which the applicant most recently graduated or at which the applicant is currently enrolled.

UBC application deadline: 1 February 2025 at 4:00 pm PT

For more information, including detailed application procedures and eligibility requirements, please see this link: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/mackenzie-king-memorial-scholarships.