{"id":6212,"date":"2020-03-31T14:20:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T21:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=6212"},"modified":"2020-03-31T14:20:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T21:20:47","slug":"gps-covit-19-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-6212","title":{"rendered":"G&#038;PS &#8211; COVIT 19 updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">(i) To streamline communication around the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our UBC graduate students, supervisors and programs, a COVID-19 landing page has been created on the G+PS website at: <a id=\"LPlnk264671\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/covid-19<\/a>. We will be adding to and updating this page over the coming days. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">For updated information about matters that affect the UBC whole community, we encourage you to monitor the UBC website for the most recent notifications: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubc.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.ubc.ca<\/a>. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">(ii) Effective Tuesday 17 March, we have closed the G+PS office to the public, but staff continue to maintain operations.\u00a0 Following UBC\u2019s recommendation to implement remote working arrangements for faculty, staff, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and student employees, many G+PS staff will be working remotely and there may be a delay in service as a result.\u00a0 Faculty, staff, and current students should direct inquiries to <a href=\"mailto:graduate.sas@ubc.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">graduate.sas@ubc.ca<\/a> and prospective students should direct inquiries to <a href=\"mailto:graduate.apply@ubc.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">graduate.apply@ubc.ca<\/a>. Questions regarding award funding can be directed to <a href=\"mailto:graduate.awards@ubc.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">graduate.awards@ubc.ca<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">With best wishes in these tumultuous times,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Brendan<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #002145; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b>Brendan\u00a0Morey<\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #002145; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;\">\u00a0 (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/equity.ubc.ca\/resources\/gender-diversity\/pronouns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #002145; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">He, Him, His<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #002145; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;\">)<\/span><span style=\"color: #002145; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #002145; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Assistant Dean, Student Administration and Awards<\/span><span style=\"color: #002145; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #002145; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies\u00a0|\u00a0Dean&#8217;s Office<\/span><span style=\"color: #002145; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #002145; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory<\/span><span style=\"color: #002145; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #002145; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">170-6371 Crescent Road\u00a0|\u00a0Vancouver BC\u00a0|\u00a0V6T 1Z2 Canada<\/span><span style=\"color: #002145; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #002145; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Phone 604 822 0976<\/span><span style=\"color: #002145; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"mailto:brendan.morey@ubc.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #002145; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">brendan.morey@ubc.ca<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #002145; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u00a0|\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@UBCGradSchool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #002145; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">@UBCGradSchool<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #002145; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #002145; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(i) To streamline communication around the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our UBC graduate students, supervisors and programs, a COVID-19 landing page has been created on the G+PS website at: https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/covid-19. We will be adding to and updating this page over the coming days. \u00a0 For updated information about matters that affect the UBC&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6213,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions\/6213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}