Subject: UBC Graduate Students: Join the HIBAR Research Buddies mailing list, and you could win a $20 UBC Bookstore gift card

The HIBAR Research Buddies are fostering a community of early career researchers who care deeply about engaging directly with experts outside academia through their research. (You can read more about the project in our introductory newsletter here.)

This UBC-funded, student-led initiative aims to create a supportive and engaging environment for like-minded graduate students, through activities that will:

• Connect students with each other and reinforce their sense of belonging within the academic environment;
• Showcase impactful Highly Integrative Basic And Responsive (HIBAR) projects, highlighting the role of graduate students as key members of these research teams; and
• Highlight opportunities for students to participate in activities that will, over time, help to change the academic culture toward more societally-engaged research.

 To learn more about our events and activities, please click on the link below to join our mailing list. By joining the list today, you will automatically be entered in a random draw for a $20 gift card for the UBC Bookstore.

Join the HIBAR Research Buddies mailing list 

For more information, please contact us by email at hibar.b@ubc.ca.

 

Sincerely,

Your HIBAR Research Buddies

Archway Urban Farm is a not-for-profit Teaching farm growing market crops in the Abbotsford area. We have been in operation since 2015, and continue to expand. This season we have some significant changes and upgrades, including using RBC’s Tech for Nature funding to implement some AgTech into our operations.

We are currently looking for a Farm Supervisor who will manage the day-to-day staff and activities on-site. We are looking for a highly capable, organized and mature-thinking individual to run the operation throughout the year, as this will be a permanent position.

Will you help us in our search by sharing with UBC students and with your networks?  Thank you!

https://archway.ca/careers/supervisor-urban-farm/

Supervisor, Urban Farm – 2024-54-01 : Archway Community Services This deadline for submitting your application is Sunday, January 28th archway.ca

 

 

If you have an interest in visiting our operation, or connecting with regards to practicum students and potential collaborations, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

 

regards,

Marina

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marina Gibson

Farm Manager

Archway Urban Farm

 

Farm:        236-380-5435

Personal:  604-302-6400

Archway:  604-859-7681

Mailing:    2420 Montrose Avenue

Abbotsford, BC V2S 3S9

On the ancestral, traditional and unceded territories of the Matsqui and the Sumas Nations, of the Stó:lō nation.

 

Applications are now open for UBC undergraduate and graduate students to join the Fall 2024 Sustainability Ambassadors cohorts.

Bring ideas for human and environmental wellbeing to life, develop your leadership skills and inspire the UBC community to create positive and meaningful change, while building your network and connections with other student leaders through the Sustainability Ambassadors program.

Working as part of a team under the guidance of a Sustainability Lead, Sustainability Ambassadors deliver programming to UBC’s Vancouver campus community related to biodiversity, climate, resilient communities, or circular economy. Find out more and apply by February 18 to join the Fall 2024 cohorts at sustain.ubc.ca/ambassadors.

Natalie Hawryshkewich (She, Her, Hers)

Communication and Engagement Specialist
Sustainability Hub

The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability 2260 West Mall, 2nd Floor | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z4
natalie.haw@ubc.ca
https://sustain.ubc.ca/hub | http://climateemergency.ubc.ca/

The UBC Vancouver campus is situated within the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).

 

Learn more about our vision for a just and sustainable world, and our 5-year plan to bring it to life. sustain.ubc.ca/hub

 

Innovations in Energy Transition: Electrification of Mobility

January 24, 2024, 12:30 pm to 1:20 pm

AERL Room 107

 

From e-scooters to electric vehicles, individuals are moving towards electric transportation options.  What are the barriers and opportunities for widespread adoption of these options?  Amir Hassanpour, PhD Candidate is Transportation Engineering and Climate Solutions Scholar, will host Translink’s Mirtha Gamiz and UBC’s Werner Antweiler in a discussion around the electrification of mobility.  Join us for this in person event in AERL Room 107, at UBC’s Vancouver Campus (Point Grey).

 

Event Details and Presenter Biographies: https://climatesolutions.ubc.ca/news-and-events/events/innovations-energy-transition-electrification-mobility

 

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Lesley Dampier  MSc MEd PAg (She, Her, Hers)
Program Coordinator
UBC Climate Solutions Research Collective
lesley.dampier@ubc.ca

Friedman Award for Scholars in Health

The Friedman Award for Scholars in Health is open to any UBC graduate student or medical resident studying in the area of health. ‘Health’ is interpreted very broadly, and includes health promotion and disease prevention, mental health research, laboratory sciences related to medicine or health, public health, health services research, or any area intended to impact human health.  Applicants do not need to be studying in a health-related degree to be eligible to apply.

Awards of up to $50,000 each will be granted for 6 to 12 months of study outside of Western Canada.  Friedman Scholars are expected to travel to other areas of Canada and the world to seek new perspectives, initiate new collaborations with experts in their fields and be exposed to different cultures.  The award amount will be at the discretion of the adjudication committee.

Application Deadline: 13 March 2024 at 4:00 pm PT

For further information about this award opportunity, including eligibility requirements and application procedures, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/friedman-award-scholars-health.