ZOOTAILS


April 🌸, 2025

 

The newsletter from the
Department of Zoology at UBC

https://zoology.ubc.ca/

Find all previous Zootails here
 

Deadlines & important upcoming dates
 

FOR GRADS

May 2025 Graduation Application - due April 17, 2025

Students wishing to graduate in May 2025 must formally:

APPLY to graduate

To be approved for graduation

  • thesis/dissertation approved
  • your program closed 

This is usually a few weeks to a month after you defend depending on how long revisions and collecting signatures for the necessary paperwork takes but G+PS will send you a thesis receipt when it happens.

FOR GRADS

2025 Summer Tuition Deadline Deferral Application - due April 30, 2025

Students that need a tuition deadline deferral because they're waiting to be paid by GRA and/or TAship can apply for a tuition deferral directly:

Enrolment Services

If you’re waiting for your Summer 2025 appointments to be submitted in Workday in order to provide proof of compensation, Mimi will be submitting those in early April. More information in the handbook here

More information

FOR EVERYONE

2025 Science Education Open House - April 10th, 9:30 am - 2:30 pm

Location: Earth Sciences Building, 1st Floor Atrium and Room 1013

An annual spring showcase of teaching and learning projects across UBC Science with talks, a poster session, and workshops.

Event schedule and registration

 

 

FOR EVERYONE
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

From FoS - Faculty of Science

Compilation of fundng and award opportunities by UBC Science Grant Facilitator

Research Newsletter - March 2025

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FROM BIOLOGY OFFICE

2025 TA positions - close April 6, 2025

Please take a look at the Biology website, under "teaching assistants".

Positions available

Application form
 

⏰ 2025-Zoology Department Meetings🗓️
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

Next meetings: April 15, MSL101
                        April 28, MSL101
 

It is time to RSVP *HERE*
to present and/or attend the

⭐ 2025 ZGSA's Debbie & Justin Wragg-Schmidt Zoology Spring Symposium⭐
Thursday May 1st, 2024

👉 Please submit your registration form by April 18

All zoology members are welcome!

Zoology Graduate Students presentations
Plenary talk Speaker: Matt Fuxjager
Career talk Speaker: Linda Matsuuchi

 

Debbie and Justin Wragg-Schmidt Zoology Spring Symposium
 

Biostats/Data Science Assistant Professor of Teaching position - teaching demonstrations in MSL 102 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm:

Jennifer L. Heavens: March 10
Vikram B Baliga : March 17
Lauren Harper Talluto: March 24
Peter Harrington: April 7

The Biostats and Data Science search committee would very much appreciate your thoughts about the candidates by April 11, 2025:

Find video and feedback surveys (CWL login)
 

🔻 NEW to Zoology! 🔻

The two new copiers have arrived in BioSciences building: 

🖨️: biosci3 & 🖨️: bioloffice 

Printing setup (VPN for remote access)

Steps to install new copiers (VPN for remote access)
 

🖥️  ZCU TIP 💽

UBC has recently banned DeepSeek from being used on university-owned devices. Please refrain from using it either via app or web interface, unless you’re running distilled version locally.
 

Restricting the use of DeepSeek at UBC
 

🗒️ FINANCE TIP🖊️

As we have just passed Fiscal Year End on March 31, 2025, please remember to reconcile your UBC VISA card at least monthly.

Finance links
 

⛑️  Safety TIPs ☣️

If you have not done this yet, please update your emergency contact information in Workday. In case of an emergency, it is important there is someone UBC can contact if something was to happen:

Adding your emergency contacts
 

Committees and other units - updates

UBC Life Sciences Symposium

The symposium will feature the student-voted guest speaker Dr. James Burke (UF Scripps) as well as UBC’s own Dr. Brett Finlay. Attendees will also participate in discussions surrounding EDI in research with Dr. Liz Rideout, and refine their graphical abstract-making skills with renowned data visualization expert Martin Krzywinski.

Students and postdocs are encouraged to share their work by presenting either a short talk (6 minutes) or a poster for the chance to win awards. Attending registrants will automatically be entered in a draw for raffle prizes.

https://ubclss.weebly.com/

 

8th Annual ToxTalks Symposium

For more information about ToxTalks 2025 and to register, please visit: 
https://toxtalks7.wixsite.com/2025. For any questions, contact us at tox_talks@sfu.ca.

For those still interested in presenting, we’re pleased to announce that the application deadline has been extended to April 11th
 

Reminders
 

BIOLOGY COMMUNITY PANTRY - please contribute to replenish the pantry!

Who is it for? Biology undergraduate students

Where is it? Biosciences, 2nd floor, East wing

 

REFUNDABLE CONTAINER RECYCLING in Biological Science Building: 100% of the money collected will go to purchase food for the Biology Community Pantry ⬆️

⬅️ Look out for the refundable recycling bins

 

 

 

LAB GLOVE RECYCLING - at the Biodiversity Research Centre & the Biological Sciences Building

 

 

 

More information on Recycling Initiatives
 

All members of the department are welcome!

April   4 - LSC room 1330
April 11 - BRC
April 25 - Biosci

Please remember to bring your own mug!

Venues might change - for the latest updates, please check the zoology website:

Friday Coffee and Donuts schedule
 

Check www.zoology.ubc.ca
for news, events, resources & more

Zoology event calendar
 

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