The leaves are turning, pumpkin spice lattes are back on the menu, and the line-ups for the 99 B-Line are growing longer by the day. It’s the beginning of a brand new academic year.

A very big welcome to all our new and returning students. We’re thrilled to have you here and hope to get to know many of you over the coming months.

We’ll be updating this blog every Wednesday throughout the academic year. You may have noticed a few changes to the layout from last year, and we hope you’ll find this iteration more user-friendly. We’ll also be re-organizing our older posts over the next month or so to categorize content that’s most relevant for prospective students and current students. Hopefully this will make it easier to find the content that’s most useful to you.

A few admissions-related updates
Admissions for the 2016 intake to the Entry-to-Practice PharmD program are now open! We’ve been working on several initiatives to help you decide whether the program is right for you, and to help make the application process less daunting.

1. Join us for a Program Information Evening – either in-person, or via webcast for those of you outside of the Lower Mainland. We have four sessions scheduled between October 2015 and January 2016. You can find out more and register here.

2. We’ll be hosting regular admissions Q&A chats on Facebook in the lead-up to the application deadline in February 2016. Starting next Monday, our Recruitment & Admissions Officer, Carol Kuang, will be on Facebook at 3 p.m. to answer any questions you send through. You can ask a question or follow along with #AskUBCPharmSci. We’ll be sharing a lot of admissions-related content and updates over on Facebook, so make sure to like our page if you haven’t already.

3. You can also book a 30-minute in-person advising appointment with Carol if you need more in-depth advice. The appointment booking form is here.

New People & Places video series
Lastly, we’re excited to share the first episode of a new video series, People & Places, with you today. People & Places is a series of short clips designed to give our prospective students (especially those of you who may not have the opportunity to visit in person) a behind-the-scenes look at some of the different spaces in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Building. In this episode, Dr. Tara Klassen shows us around her fifth-floor lab.

Wishing you all the best for a happy and productive academic year!

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