Students
Announcements:
COVID-19 — Update to 2021/22 Winter Session, Term 2
As we enter 2022, we know the Omicron variant is a concern for many in our community. The UBC Broadcast, dated December 22, indicated that the university would delay the majority of in-person teaching and learning until January 24, with in-person learning continuing for some programs.
We understand that students, faculty and staff require timely information for planning, particularly those who may be travelling internationally. Today we are confirming that UBC has made the decision to continue to deliver the majority of programs online until February 7.
We remain committed to the full return to in-person teaching and learning, and will provide further updates as soon as we can. In the meantime, we would like to thank all our students, faculty and staff for responding quickly to facilitate this shift in educational delivery, in order to support UBC’s academic mission.
Global Travel Advisory
As of December 15, the Canadian Government has reintroduced a global travel advisory warning against non-essential travel due to the Omicron variant of COVID-19. With this update, UBC has made the decision to pause university travel outside of Canada for students while the global travel advisory is in place. This includes travel for co-op work terms, conferences and programs by OVPI Go Global like exchange and study abroad.
Per UBC’s Student Safety Abroad Policy, any student planning academic travel to destinations with travel advisories of “avoid non-essential travel” or “avoid all travel” requires an exemption through the high-risk travel protocol managed by our Student Safety Abroad team. Our Safety Abroad team will continue to support graduate students with academically necessary research outside of Canada that can no longer be delayed to apply for exemption. Our Student Safety Abroad Manager reviews each application before forwarding it to a designated department head for final approval.
Faculty of Graduate Studies:
GradUpdate - In this issue: Self-care Strategies for Managing Stress and Avoiding Burnout, Stats: Correlation & Linear Regression, P/T work on campus, LinkedIn Learning, Literature Reviews: Mapping the Scholarly Conversation, and more.
Faculty of Medicine:
The Faculty of Medicine is excited to announce Faculty of Medicine’s Spring Virtual Research Showcase! This event will bring members of the Faculty of Medicine together to share and learn the diverse and innovative research work of graduate students, fellows, and recent senior faculty prize awardees.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - Deadline: January 31, 2022 (12 PM PST)
At this time members who wish to present their work to submit an abstract using the Online Abstract Submission Form. Abstract should not exceed 200 words and must include introduction/background, research objective, methods, results, and conclusion. You will be notified by February 11, 2022 if your abstract is selected to be presented during the event.
General registration to attend the Research Showcase will be open on February 1st, 2022. Please stay tuned! If you have questions regarding the submission of your abstract or general inquiries regarding this event, please contact us at med.research@ubc.ca.
Professional Development & Workshops:
The HLI has put together a great training program in Knowledge Translation and Mobilization. The various sessions can be viewed here.
You can register at the following link: https://forms.gle/T8SppBmaGAbEsJpc9
The (Un)Scientific Method podcast, has partnered with SciCats to run NSERC funded science storytelling workshops for the UBC and SFU grad communities. We will then recruit participants from this training cohort to interview on the podcast and broadcast their research
These workshops will be held on January 17 & 24 from 9:00 to 10:00. The registration links are available on the poster or at https://bit.ly/SciCatsPt1 and https://bit.ly/SciCatsPt2. Information can be found at our website https://theunscientificmethod.ca.
Entreneurship @ UBC Newsletter -
Open House Week!
Awards:
Aboriginal Graduate Fellowships
The University of British Columbia offers multi-year fellowships to Master's and Doctoral Indigenous students. Award winners are selected on the basis of academic merit through an annual competition, administered by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. Approximately a dozen new fellowships are offered each year.
Application deadline: Friday, January 28th, 2022 @ 4:00pm PT
For complete application and nomination details, see: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/aboriginal-graduate-fellowships
Coordinator's Corner:
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