Author: Chantal Laliberte

Hello Students,

Registration is now open for the 2019 Health and Regenerative Medicine Hackathon!

You may have heard of hackathons for programmers and software engineers but what is a Health Hackathon? The Health Hackathon is a competition event where teams will work for 24-hours to solve a variety of challenges being faced in our community. Whether it’s a problem in the clinic or on the lab bench, each challenge has been submitted by someone involved in BC healthcare or medical research and they span a variety of disciplines in engineering and science. The goal at the end of the competition is to have a usable solution that can be implemented.

Students at all levels and from all disciplines are welcome. There is no prerequisite knowledge or experience required!

Why should you attend the Health Hackathon?:

• You enjoy problem solving and want to apply it to improve your community
• You want to learn about new innovations in healthcare
• Looks great on a resume especially when applying for co-ops
• Free food and cash prizes!

Curious about the Health Hackathon? Come to our kick-off event on September 6^th (ECS660 – 6-8pm) to learn about the challenges, learn about the resources available for completing the challenges and make teams. Teams will have a month after the kick-off to plan/prepare for the Hackathon.

Event details:

• Kick-off: September 6^th, 2019 – Engineering and Computer Science Building, Room 660, UVic – 6pm
• 24-hour Hackathon: October 4^th-5^th, 2019 – Fort Tectoria, 777 Fort Street – 6pm (Oct4) to 6pm (Oct5)
• Team presentations, judging and prizes: October 6^th, 2019 – Fort Tectoria, 777 Fort Street – 10am

More info and registration:

This event is being run by UVic’s Centre for Biomedical Research and the BC Regenerative Medicine Network. Concurrent events will be held in Victoria and Vancouver. More information on the 2019 Health and Regenerative Medicine Hackathon can be on the CBR website : https://www.uvic.ca/research/centres/biomedical/events-outreach/health-and-regenerative-medicine-hackathon/index.php.

Registration is through the BCRegMed website, please indicate which campus you will compete on : https://bcregmed.ca/hackathon/. You can also register at the kick-off event.

If there are any questions regarding this event please email Laila at cfbr@uvic.ca.

Hope to see you at the kick-off!

 

Laila Abelseth

Assistant to the Director, Centre for Biomedical Research, University of Victoria, PO Box 1700 Stn. CSC,  Victoria, V8W 2Y2/  Phone: (250) 472-4067; Fax: (250) 472-4075: Email:  cfbr@uvic.ca;  Website: cbr.uvic.ca

Residence Services is hiring a third Residence Education Community Leader for their Science Living Learning Community to meet increasing demands. As such, they have posted the role on the Residence Services website. It will be closing June 27^th. The job can be found in the right rail under ‘Opportunities’ and is open to students who have completed at least one year of university, and are enrolled in the Faculty of Science. It is a live in position, similar to the Community Leader role, but living in a theme specific Living Learning Community.

https://www.uvic.ca/residence/assets/docs/job-ad-science-recl.pdf

STEM Fellowship is a Canadian, youth-led, non-profit organization that creates mentorship and experiential learning programs to equip students with skills in data analytics, research, and scholarly communication. STEM Fellowship Journal (SFJ) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by Canadian Science Publishing. The SFJ is dedicated to showcasing research from first-time high school and undergraduate authors.

We are now calling all young scientists to submit their interdisciplinary STEM research papers, including original research articles, viewpoints, and review articles that detail inconclusive results, to celebrate our belief that failures are the basis of scientific understanding. As such, the theme of this call is Inconclusive Results. SFJ believes that researchers need to communicate their inconclusive findings in order to logically direct future research initiatives. More information can be found here. The deadline is on July 15, 2019.

We are also proud to announce the latest release of our STEM Fellowship Journal (Volume 4, Issue 1). The issue hosts a wide range of original investigations done by young STEM researchers. This issue includes research on the predictors of HPV vaccination completion; how Tigecycline demonstrates anticancer activity; and how milk can be made less allergenic. In addition, this issue showcases the proceedings of the Indicium and unERD (Undergraduate Engineering Research Day) conferences. The PDF of the issue can be found here.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or require any further information.

Heide Adham
Design Team Lead of the STEM Fellowship
heide.adham@stemfellowship.org |
www.stemfellowship.org

 

 

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
Connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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/