ZOOTAILS - January 2024

ZOOTAILS

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
January, 2024

The newsletter from the
Department of Zoology at UBC

https://zoology.ubc.ca/

Find all previous Zootails here

Deadlines & Important upcoming dates

ZOOLOGY SEARCH: Two Assistant Professors in Evolution

Here is the 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm job seminar schedule:

Jan 11 - Katherine Xue ---------- CHEM D300
Jan 15 - Michael Yuan ---------- MSL 102
Jan 18 - Waring (Buck) Trible --- CEME 1215
Jan 22 - Heather Bruce ---------- MSL 102
Jan 29 - Allie Graham ----------- SPPH B151
Feb   1 - Erik Enbody ------------ MSL 102
Feb   5 - Sam Church ------------ MSL 102
Feb   8 - Jing Lin Xie ------------- MSL 102
Feb 12 - Asher Leeks ------------ MSL 102

More information (CWL login)

January Awards Competition - deadline: January 15

This is our annual departmental awards competition that includes the 4YF, Zoology Graduate Fellowship (ZGF), and department-recommended awards - more details below

Application

Indigenous Graduate Fellowship (IGF) - deadline: February 16, 2024 at 4:00PM PT

Multi-year fellowships are provided to Indigenous Master’s and Doctoral students in all disciplines

More information

Apply to participate in a Living Data Project working group - deadline: February 6, 2024

The Canadian Institute of Ecology and Evolution, as part of its NSERC-CREATE Living Data Project, is now accepting applications for graduate students who wish to participate in the following working groups.

Apply here

Save the date
Zoology 100th Anniversary
April 29th, April 30th and May 1st, 2024

To celebrate this milestone, we are hosting a symposium consisting of:
ZGSA's Debbie and Justin Wragg-Schmidt Zoology Spring Symposium graduate students presentations plus two additional days of speakers nominated by the members of our major research and teaching clusters.

Faculty - news

Stella Lee has accepted the Assistant Professor of Teaching in Physiology position in our department. Stella is currently a lecturer in Zoology and will officially start her new role in July 2024.

Please join us in congratulating Stella on her new position!

Staff - news

Farewell and THANK YOU to Mahsa Zolghadriha, zoology's administrative assistant, who will be leaving Zoology to take up a new role as ISC Support Specialist.

Her last day is TODAY, January 5th.

Thank you Tammy for supporting our Undergraduate Biology Program for 20 years!

This month Tammy Tromba celebrates 20 years as the Biology Program Assistant in Zoology and Botany departments.

📣 PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD 📣

Assistant Professor in Food, Forests and (Bio)Fuels - Ecology - Deadline for applications is January 16^th, 2024.

Assistant Professor in Food, Forests and (Bio)Fuels - Policy - Deadline for applications is January 16^th, 2024.

Zoology Jobs webpage

Assistant Professor in Animal Welfare - Deadline for applications is February 1, 2024.

Position - UBC Careers

Committees and other units - updates

Graduate Program

January Awards Competition additional information - deadline: January 15

Notes for current student applicants:
• You must be a current student registered in the MSc or PhD Zoology program in 2023W to be eligible for the department recommended awards (the non-4YF & ZGF awards); each award also has their own eligibility criteria noted on the application form
• You must be a current student registered in, or planning to transfer into the MSc or PhD Zoology program in 2024W, to be eligible for the 4YF and ZGF (note: the 4YF has specific eligibility criteria)
• You do not have to attach your transcripts. If I don’t have your transcript, I will contact you directly for it
• Please arrange for your 2 reference letters to be sent to zool.gradprgm@ubc.ca directly from the referee

Application:
https://apex.zoology.ubc.ca:8443/ords/r/jan_awards/january-awards-competition/home

Please contact zoology.support@ubc.ca if you’re having trouble with the form and copy zool.gradprgm@ubc.ca so Mimi is aware of your application.
Save the Date: Zoology 3 Minute Thesis Heat on March 7th!
Participant sign up information will be sent to graduate students in late January

ZEDI: Zoology Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee

in/relation: supporting new learners to Indigenous topics at UBC: on November 23rd the Indigenous Initiatives team hosted the launch for the in/relation project. The project is an educational resource for instructors, staff and students at UBC who are:
1. Interested in exploring Indigenous histories and contexts at UBC with others who are fairly new to these topics—and
2. Non-experts on Indigenous topics themselves

website: https://inrelation.ubc.ca/
facilitating video: https://inrelation.ubc.ca/modules/facilitator-video/

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