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Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Graduate Program Newsletter

For the Week of June 14, 2021

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:

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.

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.
 
Students: Visit the Research Commons online to register to attend the final Dissertations and Thesis formatting workshop https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3599885
or to book a thesis formatting consultation https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/appointments/research_commons before this service ends.

Professional Development & Workshops:

UBC Therapeutics Initiative Newsletter.

UBC Entrepreneurship Newsletter.

Awards Competitions:

4YF - Please see previous version of the newsletter saved here for information.

Coordinator's Corner:

*New - Helpful instructions for course registrations.

Supervisors

Announcements:

 

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.
 
Students: Visit the Research Commons online to register to attend the final Dissertations and Thesis formatting workshop https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3599885
or to book a thesis formatting consultation https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/appointments/research_commons before this service ends.
 

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Student Association (PaSA)

President: Raelyn Gallant        Vice-President: Nancy Yang      VP Finance: Darcy Sutherland

Announcments:

PaSA is hosting a graduate student networking event. “Spill the Tea in Pathology!”

June 24th, 2021 from 4:30-5:30

It is a platform for questions, advice, and discussion amongst your peers.

Please submit questions/topics you'd like discussed at this event to pasa@pathology.ubc.ca for a chance to win a $15 electronic gift card.

Upcoming Meetings & Events:

PaSA will be meeting every second Monday starting on June 1, 2021 at 4:30 pm.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/75485853351?pwd=UG8ycTd6K3krL3BMSm1BQ0dyamdvQT09

Meeting ID: 754 8585 3351

Passcode: Pathology

Everyone is welcome! Join us and get the virtual human interaction you may have been missing!