PATH Student Representatives:
Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies Committee (GPSC) - Madeline Lauener
Graduate Program Curriculum Committee - Simon Teskey
Graduate Student Society - Saumadritaa Kar PATH Awards & Recognition Committee: Amirhossein Bahreyni
PALM Wellness Ambassador: Madeline Lauener (mlauener@alumni.ubc.ca)
Students
Announcements:
An invitation from Dermot Kelleher, Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Vice-President, Health, and Santa J. Ono, UBC President and Vice-Chancellor.
UBC's Return to Campus
UBC has created a number of online educational seminars regarding equity, diversity and inclusion in the STEM field. These sessions, which are offered this summer, cover a number of topics such as designing curriculum that considers equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI), considering the well being of trainees and how leaders can incorporate EDI practices into their leadership. A description of the courses and how to register for the courses can be found here.
UBC's Biomedical Imaging & AI Cluster is cordially inviting you to their Spring BMI AI Research Exchange on Wednesday, June 23rd at 12pm.
This month they are featuring research on Digital Pathology from UBC’s Robotics Control Lab and AI in Medicine Lab.
Details
Jeffrey Boschman, MASc Student, Supervised by Dr. Ali Bashashati
Title: “Improving Deep Learning Models for Clinical Epithelial Ovarian Carcinoma Whole Slide Pathology Image Classification using Color Normalization”
Faculty of Graduate Studies:
GradUpdate - Graduate Pathways to Success Weekly Newsletter.
The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies is pleased to announce the launch of the Graduate Covid Program Delay Tuition Award program, which provides support to graduate students whose academic and/or research progress was delayed by disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Students who were registered in a research-based graduate program during the Summer 2020 term will receive an award equivalent to their tuition assessment, less any other tuition awards received for the same term, if they remain registered beyond the median duration of their degree program (in most cases, upon registration in the 8th term of a Master’s program or the 17th term of a doctoral program).
In the next few days, funds will be assigned to students who were eligible to receive the award in September 2020, January 2021 and May 2021. In the future, the award will be assigned to eligible students before the start of each term. Students do not need to apply for this award; awards will be assigned automatically by G+PS.
G+PS will send an explanatory email to all students who (i) will have their award assigned in the next few days and (ii) may be eligible, based on their 2020 Summer registration, to receive the award in the future.
For more information, please visit the Graduate Covid Program Delay Tuition Award webpage.
For several years now, the Research Commons at the Koerner Library has offered workshops and individual assistance to students with the computer programs they use to produce their theses. Unfortunately, due to changing circumstances at the Library, this service will no longer be available after June 30th.
G+PS would like to thank the Research Commons for the help it has provided to students. G+PS will continue to provide the resources on our website and pre-reviews of theses. We will also continue to offer the “Preparation and Submission of Theses and Dissertations” seminars through G+PS’ Graduate Pathways to Success. The Microsoft Word template developed by the Research Commons is now available on our website here: However, G+PS is not able to provide assistance or training on how to use this template or any other computer program students have chosen to use.
Faculty of Medicine:
Dear Faculty of Medicine Graduate Students,
The Faculty of Medicine, Dean’s Office is seeking one Graduate Student representative to serve on the UBC Faculty of Medicine Research Committee for September 1, 2021 – August 30, 2022.
The Research Committee is chaired by Dr. Rob McMaster, Vice Dean, Research and reports to the Faculty Executive. Its membership includes the Associate Deans of Research, as well as representatives from the Faculty of Medicine departments, schools, and research centres. The responsibilities of this committee includes:
- Recommends to the Faculty Executive Committee research-related business requiring Full Faculty or Senate approval.
- Receives and reviews strategic plans and discusses priorities/pathways to maximize research productivity.
- Provides a dynamic forum for research discussions, funding opportunities, and research policy.
- Addresses potential obstacles to research productivity.
- Convenes open, university-wide Town Hall meetings around specific research-related topics.
- Addresses other research matters that may arise related to, for example, funders of research, inter-Faculty research initiatives, national Faculty of Medicine research initiatives, etc.
- Adheres to the FoM General Responsibilities of Standing Committees.
The Research Committee meets 3-4 times per year. Meetings are usually scheduled for 1.5 hours.
The complete Terms of Reference are online for your information: https://mednet.med.ubc.ca/AboutUs/AdminAndGoverningBodies/Committees/Pages/Research-Committee.aspx .
If you are interested in serving on this committee, please submit a one-page CV to med.research@ubc.ca by Thursday, June 24 at noon. And do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
Professional Development & Workshops:
The Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences are recruiting TAs for our courses in the CPS department. Please see the job posting for more details.
The St. Michael's Hospital Research Student Association's annual Life Sciences Career Symposium will be taking place on July 9, 2021, featuring keynote speakers Dr. Samantha Yammine (Science Sam, 7AM - 9AM PST) and Dr. Ralph DaCosta (10AM - 12PM PST)! Join us to learn, connect, and ask questions about the career journeys of distinguished experts in the Life Sciences for our two sessions: Public Health and Science Communications (7AM - 9AM PST) and Biotechnology and Innovation (10AM - 12PM PST). Students may attend one or both sessions and attendees of each session will be automatically entered into a raffle. Register at http://bit.ly/LSCS2021
Awards Competitions:
4YF - Please see previous version of the newsletter saved here for information.
Dear Faculty of Medicine Graduate Students,
I am pleased to announce that the 2021-22 Elizabeth C. Watters Research Fellowship and the Laurel L. Watters Research Fellowship competitions are now open.
Elizabeth C. Watters Research Fellowship: A fellowship of $20,600 has been made available through an endowment established by the Estate of John Imrie Watters for a deserving graduate student or medical resident in the Faculty of Medicine engaged in research into the causes, treatment, and cure of lymphatic cancer. Mr. Watters passed away in 2002. The awards are made on the recommendation of the Faculty of Medicine, and in the case of graduate students, in consultation with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. For more information, visit: http://grad-postdoc.med.ubc.ca/elizabeth-c-watters-research-fellowship/
Laurel L. Watters Research Fellowship: A fellowship of $20,600 has been made available through an endowment established by the Estate of John Imrie Watters for a deserving graduate student or medical resident in the Faculty of Medicine engaged in research into the causes, treatment, and cure of breast cancer. Mr. Watters passed away in 2002. The awards are made on the recommendation of the Faculty of Medicine, and in the case of graduate students, in consultation with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. For more information, visit: http://grad-postdoc.med.ubc.ca/laurel-l-watters-research-fellowship/
Deadline for both awards is July 13, 2020 at 12:00PM Pacific Time (noon).
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