Month: May 2019

STEM Fellowship, a national, youth-led, not-for-profit organization that creates mentorship and experiential learning programs to equip students with skills in data analytics, research, and scholarly communication is recruiting students for roles on several committees on their national team.

The open positions can offer new recruits the opportunity to design and implement novel marketing strategies, collaborate with the partners of our STEM Fellowship Journal (including Youth Science Canada and Canadian Science Publishing), organize our annual scholarly writing competition or coordinate programs to reduce inequities in STEM fields. New recruits will also contribute to the development and expansion of the programs, such as the STEM Fellowship Journal (an open-access peer-reviewed journal supported by Canadian Science Publishing), the Big Data Challenge (which combines elements of global citizenship education and social entrepreneurship with big data analytics and research skills) and STEMpowerment (which provides research and mentorship opportunities for students from communities traditionally underrepresented in STEM).

The call for applications can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OEXVYQ5h03v3CXMPWD31N7rnVmrexh-CRrwfzXHhxDI/

The deadline for applications is June 1, 2019.

Heide Adham
Design Team Lead of the STEM Fellowship
heide.adham@stemfellowship.org | www.stemfellowship.org
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Join the STEM Fellowship Community by becoming a STEM Fellow!

 

Dear Biology Students,

We are in the process of searching for a new Dean of Science. Two BlueJean sessions have been arranged at short notice for students to meet and interact directly with two of the candidates.   Brittany, an SLI from MATH will be the virtual host, providing a brief candidate introduction and asking the students to submit completed Feedback forms, which can be found on the Opportunities website.

Session with H. Peter Loock (Candidate C):         Thursday, May 9^th from 9:30 am  to 10:00 am (Pacific Standard Time)

Participants, to join the meeting with video on a computer or mobile phone, click the link: https://bluejeans.com/725961337

You may also join via audio only using the telephone number: +1.888.240.2560 (US Toll Free)

Additional numbers: http://bluejeans.com/numbers then enter Meeting ID: 725961337

Notes:  You may require administrator access to install BlueJeans on your computer – please make arrangements with your local IT support.  You are encouraged to connect to the conference call approximately 30 minutes prior to the stated start time – you MUST initiate the connection to BlueJeans.  Connecting 30 minutes early helps alleviate stress for the participants and ensures maximum presentation time – please be considerate and connect early.  We recommend that you use a wired connection for better bandwidth.

Please test your video and audio connection in advance of the video conference date using: https://bluejeans.com/111/ For assistance go to http://bluejeans.com/support/ or call: +1 (408) 791-2830.

PRIVACY: BlueJeans Network is a cloud-hosted service that transmits data outside of Canada. Please ensure your usage of BlueJeans Networks is in accordance with BC privacy legislation. If you have any questions, please contact the University Privacy Office – foipp@uvic.ca – prior to using this service.

Session with Jack Gray (Candidate B):                  Thursday, May 9^th from 2:30 pm to 3:00 pm (Pacific Standard Time)

Participants, to join the meeting with video on a computer or mobile phone, click the link: https://bluejeans.com/243525322

You may also join via audio only using the telephone number: +1.888.240.2560 (US Toll Free)

Additional numbers: http://bluejeans.com/numbers then enter Meeting ID: 243525322

Notes:  You may require administrator access to install BlueJeans on your computer – please make arrangements with your local IT support.  You are encouraged to connect to the conference call approximately 30 minutes prior to the stated start time – you MUST initiate the connection to BlueJeans.  Connecting 30 minutes early helps alleviate stress for the participants and ensures maximum presentation time – please be considerate and connect early.  We recommend that you use a wired connection for better bandwidth.

Please test your video and audio connection in advance of the video conference date using: https://bluejeans.com/111/ For assistance go to http://bluejeans.com/support/ or call: +1 (408) 791-2830.

PRIVACY: BlueJeans Network is a cloud-hosted service that transmits data outside of Canada. Please ensure your usage of BlueJeans Networks is in accordance with BC privacy legislation. If you have any questions, please contact the University Privacy Office – foipp@uvic.ca – prior to using this service.

Your input is valuable to the Committee.  The position criteria, the Candidates’ CVs, and fillable feedback forms are posted on a confidential password-protected page (Netlink login/password required) on the VPAC Opportunities site.  Please submit your feedback by email to apasst@uvic.ca, or hand deliver it to the Office of the Vice-President Academic, Michael Williams Building A244 no later than 12:30 p.m. on Monday, May 13, 2019.

Sincerely,

Sandra Duggan

Assistant to the Associate Vice-President

Academic Planning

Office of the Vice-President Academic and

Provost

University of Victoria

Tel: 250-853-3761 / Email: apasst@uvic.ca

https://www.uvic.ca/vpacademic/

 

The Royal BC Museum recently announced it is undertaking a Museum Modernization Project, and the paleontology collection is looking for new volunteers to help organize the fossil collection!

We are looking for some keen individuals to help with tasks like inventorying specimens in our cabinets, putting catalogue numbers on fossils, cutting out foam for re-housing specimens in trays, and other similar types of organizational jobs we may identify along the way. Volunteers will get a chance to work directly with the fossils, and should be able to safely lift and handle small and medium-sized delicate objects. No prior experience is necessary, and there is no minimum time commitment (although it would be great if volunteers could commit at least a few hours at a time per session). We’re generally able to host volunteers between 10 am and 5 pm, Monday to Friday.

We’d love to hear from you! For questions or more information about volunteer opportunities in the paleontology collection, please feel free to contact me at varbour@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca.

Volunteer applications are submitted to Holli Hodgson (volunteer services manager) at the following link:

http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/support-us/volunteer/about-volunteering#how-to-apply

Volunteers who are over the age of 19 are required to have a current Police Information Check, this may be completed online with the instructions at this link:

http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/images/ministry_of_justice_application.pdf

If you prefer to take a letter to your local police station a letter may be prepared for you, just contact Holi:

hhodgson@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca.

Volunteers who are under the age of 19 require a signed Minor Consent form at this link:

http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/images/minor_consent_form_0.pdf