Author: Chantal Laliberte

Your UVic OneCard is everything! It’s your official student ID, an easy way to buy food on campus, a Universal bus pass, your library card and so much more. Beat the rush and get yours now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nbn3PjdmgA&ab_channel=ThisisUVic

The UVic Residence Community Leader (CL) Team is growing and it’s not too late to apply to start working this August! The CL is a part-time live-in student leadership position integral to building community within UVic student residences through programing and participating in a regular in-night rotation. Applications for the 2021-22 Academic Year are due on July 22^nd, 2021 and the position begins on August 25^th; instructions and additional information can be found on the CL job ad located on the Residence Services website.

The Global Community is currently looking for orientation volunteers and we’re hoping you can help us spread the word! More information can also be found on our GC volunteer website. If you have any questions, please contact us at gcmentor@uvic.ca.

I’ve attached a photo to use as well as optional text below for social media posts. Any help you can give to spread the word would be much appreciated.

Volunteer with International Student Services’ Orientation Programming!

We have some really fun and exciting short-term volunteer opportunities to welcome new International Students to Canada and to the University of Victoria through our International Student Services’ Orientation Programming. Make new friends, receive a free t-shirt, enjoy delicious ice-cream all while gaining volunteer experience!

Please register here to volunteer: https://www.surveymonkey.ca/r/ISWvolunteerfall2021

Self-Isolation (quarantine) Information Session for International Students

Date: Tuesday, July 13^th, 2021

Time: 8:00am – 9:00am (PST). If you are not located in PST, use the Time Zone Converter to get the time of your event in your region.

Location: Zoom (meeting link will be shared with registrants the day before the event date).

Are you an international student? Are you planning to travel to Canada for the 2021 Fall Term? Do you have questions about the self-isolation (quarantine) requirements upon entry into Canada?

Information session topics will include:

• Requirements for fully vaccinated students
• Requirements for students who are not fully vaccinated
• How to arrange and complete your mandatory 14 day isolation period for students who are not fully vaccinated
• Documentation needed for travel
• ArriveCan
• BC Quarantine Plan
• UVic Self-isolation Program
• Accommodation during self-isolation (quarantine)

Audience: UVic International Students who are planning to travel to Canada for 2021 Fall Term.

Registration Required: Register online here: Session Registration by July 11, 12pm (PST) and receive a confirmation email with meeting link.

Prior to event please review the information on our website UVic Self Isolation Program

 

If you don’t know about J. Kelly Hoey—it’s time to change that! She’s a UVic alumna, author, speaker and renowned expert on modern networking. The author of Build Your Dream Network will show you how to develop a sustainable long-term approach to building relationships and advancing your career.

Find out why “networking is a career muscle” and take the first steps to creating the network you need to succeed. #UVicAlumni, staff and students are invited to attend an exclusive virtual one-hour “Ask Me Anything” session June 29 at 12 p.m. with the lively, passionate author. Free, but register now to save your space:  https://extrweb.uvic.ca/KellyHoeyAMA

Want to help welcome new students to campus this fall? The Office of Student Life is currently recruiting for orientation leaders (OLs)! OLs will lead groups of approximately 15 students on a campus tour and facilitate social activities as part of New Student Welcome and/or Graduate Student Orientation. Apply by July 4!  https://uvic.ca/orientation/volunteer

Opportunity for students to participate in the Canadian Arctic Research Expedition.

SEDS-Canada (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space) is a non-profit that aims to create research and professional development opportunities in the space sector for Canadian post-secondary students. Our projects, like Canadian Reduced Gravity Experiment Design Challenge, have a strong history of training highly qualified personnel for the Canadian space industry. We are pleased to announce the Canadian Arctic Research Expedition (CAN-ARX), a competition for student teams to realize a research project in the Canadian arctic. CAN-ARX is an opportunity to train highly qualified personnel, while engaging with Northern communities and benefiting industry through development of capabilities and new technologies.

More information about the project can be found here.  Any questions can be directed to myself or the project team at canarx@seds.ca.

Alina Kunitskaya

Projects Chair (Incoming), SEDS-Canada

alina.kunitskaya@seds.ca 

(403) 400-1559

 

 

Alumni Panelists:

Bethel Lulie

Bethel Lulie studied Biochemistry at UVic for her undergrad with a minor in Statistics. In 2018, Bethel went on to do a Masters of Public Health at Simon Fraser University, where she focused on health inequities in Global Health. She has worked in research studying the intersections of violence, racism, sexism, and ableism here in Canada, South Africa and Ethiopia. Bethel is now working as an associate with a global health consulting group called Proteknon, working on various international public health projects.

Catherine Choi

Catherine graduated with a bachelors and law degree from the University of British Columbia. After practicing law for a couple of years, she pursued a masters degree in Neuroscience from the University of Victoria. She has worked in both academic and industry labs, and is currently a research associate at Stemcell Technologies.

Harley Gordon

Harley is a freelance science writer, a laboratory instructor, and a PhD student in Forest Biology. If you subscribe to Capital Daily, a local Victoria based news publication you may have read some of his work. Following his undergraduate degree Harley worked as an analytical and formulation chemist for a small Research and Development Consulting company. Harley has coordinated a let’s talk science outreach program which oversaw hundreds of volunteers and provided outreach to thousands of students. Harley also holds a Masters degree in Plant Agriculture from the University of Guelph

Clint Seinin

Originally from Houston BC, Clint enrolled in the civil engineering department at the University of British Columbia, with an environmental focus. Upon graduation in 2013, his interest in fluid mechanics and environmental issues got him into the Water Resources Engineering field, where he worked for Northwest Hydraulic Consultants (NHC) as a Project Engineer for two years. While working for NHC, Clint was involved in many interesting projects ranging from water supply studies to fish passage designs, but throughout this time, he realized that he missed hard science and mathematics. Additionally, during these two years, many of the projects Clint worked on also exposed him to the role climate change was having on our surrounding environment. In 2015 he applied and was accepted to UVic’s Mathematics department as a Master’s student, studying the numerical representation of sea ice dynamics and how it was simulated within Earth System Models (ESMs).

While working on his Master’s, his interests in mathematics and climate change continued to grow but he was also exposed to the world of computational science, which has since taken over all his academic and career aspirations. Through conferences he was able to see how important computational science was in the geophysical field and through applied problem solving workshops, he was exposed to its use in various private industries. This new found interest afforded Clint the opportunity to spend a summer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (New Mexico) as an Applied Machine Learning Research Fellow. Upon completion of his Master’s, his experience in computational science and geophysical modelling resulted in a job at the Canadian Centre of Climate Modelling and Analysis (CCCma), where he straddles the line between working as a scientist and a software engineer. As part of this position he play a key role in the development of the Canadian Earth System Model (CanESM), which provides Canada’s contribution to the international Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) and feeds into the reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Victoria Hodgson

Victoria obtained her Bachelor of Science at the University of Victoria in biochemistry with a minor in biology. Christine is a Senior MSAT and Operations Specialist at Cellares, a biotech company in San Francisco, California.

Christine Dawson

Christine recently completed her Bachelor of Science degree in biology. After graduation, Christine worked at Phillips Brewing Co. in Victoria. Christine currently works as a senior Laboratory Technician at Raft Beer Labs in Calgary, AB.

 

DAVID HARRIS FLAHERTY UNDERGRADUATE LIBRARY SCHOLARSHIP

Established in 2014 and named for donor David Harris Flaherty, this $1000 scholarship is awarded to an in-course, academically outstanding undergraduate student in any discipline who can demonstrate how they have utilized library resources for a class project, assignment or research paper. Eligible students must complete a 500-word essay explaining their use of library resources in an application accessible through the SAFA (Students Awards and Financial Aid) scholarship portal on My page.

The annual deadline is May 31.