Image: Blue breasted bee eater, Northern Ethiopia, photo by Dr. Neville Winchester
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
(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.
Please be advised that the Division of Medical Sciences will be offering again course MEDS301 “Introduction to Pharmacology”. This course will be offered January to April, 2022, with classes being held on Mondays and Wednesdays at 4:30-6:00 pm.
When I was reviewing the courses offered on biomedical sciences at UVic, I noticed that “Pharmacology” was not properly covered with the exception of one course in Nursing that mostly focusses on pharmacotherapy applications in the clinical setting. I thereby believe that offering an introductory pharmacology course provides a good “bridge” between basic biomedical and clinical disciplines, and thereby could be of interest for students planning for a career in the health sciences well by applying to professional clinical programs or to biomedical sciences graduate programs.
When asking my Division Head about the opportunity to develop such a course, I was informed that the DMS offered an introductory course in Pharmacology in the past, and thereby I took upon myself the task of redeveloping the course and offering it again to contribute to fostering health sciences teaching and research at UVic.
Please see below information about the course, as well as the course outline.
Hector Caruncho
Course Instructor
Professor, Division of Medical Sciences
CRC in Translational Neuroscience
Dear Science Students,
This is a call for applications for the Rob & Tammy Lipson Research Scholarship. All Science students who have an international research experience opportunity are welcome to apply. The purpose of this scholarship is to assist students in gaining hands-on research experience in an international setting. For 2021 applications, the requirement for international travel is waived and/or may be extended to March 2022. Research collaborations must still be international in scope (e.g. collaborator is outside of Canada) to qualify.
Preference is given to academically outstanding undergraduate or graduate students who have demonstrated a commitment to knowledge translation through one of:
For full details (terms of reference and application form) please see the “Rob and Tammy Lipson Research Scholarship” tab on Science Awards website (https://www.uvic.ca/science/undergraduate/science-awards/index.php) or the attachment.
We look forward to receiving your application in the Dean’s Office by May 31, 2021.
Warm regards,
Valeria
Valeria Bazán | Assistant to the Dean | Faculty of Science | E: scieoff@uvic.ca | T: 250.721.7062
University of Victoria | Bob Wright Centre A211 | PO Box 1700 STN CSC | Victoria BC V8W 2Y2
We are looking to compile some study tips / words of encouragements for students by students for exam time!
If any of your student representatives or connections who would like to participate they can do so below. It would be great if we had 1-2 from each faculty to showcase over the week.
Send me a 15-30 second video (vertical format) introducing themselves, their pronouns, their year/major and any words of encouragement or tips for getting through exam time!
They should also include any Instagram handles they want me to tag.
As soon as possible would be great but anytime throughout this week or next is fine. We will post them throughout.
E-mail is preferred but they can also DM the @universityofvictoria Instagram account or text it to me at 250-418-5633.
Tips to film an Instagram story:
Thanks so much,
Ali Baggott (she/her)
Social Media Coordinator
University Communications + Marketing
Mobile: 250-418-5633
The following course has just been added to the Biology Dept’s summer course offerings.
BIOL 457 – Paleoecology & Environmental Change
Instructor: Dr. Terri Lacourse (tlacours@uvic.ca)
May 10 to June 24
Fully online and synchronous – Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:30 am – 12:20 pm
Pre-requisites: 3rd-year standing and BIOL 215 (or EOS 330)
CRN: 33212
Course description: Fundamental principles of paleoecology with emphasis on species, community and ecosystem responses to environmental change over the past 2 million years. Topics include: using fossil remains to infer ecological dynamics and climate
change since the last glaciation; ice age megafaunal extinctions; role of paleoecology in conservation.
Evaluation: The course will have one midterm exam, an oral presentation, a 6-page paper, and a final exam on June 24th.
Note: Biol 457 will not be offered in Fall 2021 because of this summer offering. The summer offering is subject to sufficient enrolment – at least 10 students will need to register for the course to be offered.
Contact Dr. Terri Lacourse (tlacours@uvic.ca) if you have questions about this summer course.
Register for the virtual regional conference!
Every spring Regional Conferences gather student and professional members to champion each other, exchange knowledge and expand skills through a wide variety of workshops and sessions.
We are excited to announce this year’s Region 1 Conference will be held virtually. We invite you to attend and participate virtually in conversations with other members from your region. Once you have registered you will receive further instructions on how to attend your Regional Conference virtually.
JOIN US!
FOR THE AISES REGION 1 CONFERENCE
Date: April 24, 2021
Click here for more information!
American Indian Science and Engineering Society
4263 Montgomery Blvd NE, Suite 200
Albuquerque, NM 87109
(505) 765-1052 | www.aises.org
Congratulations! With graduation right around the corner, it’s time to put all the learning from your UVic experiences together. Explore our online hub for support as you take your next step. You’ll find info about:
Learn more at uvic.ca/gearuptograd.
The In-course online application for students currently attending UVic is open April 1-May 31. Scholarships and awards that require applications ask for students to submit an online (or paper) application as well as supporting documentation. In order to apply for these scholarships, students must complete the in-course scholarship application, available through Online tools. Any supporting documentation required for specific awards must be submitted by email to incourse@uvic.ca. Please include your name and student number when submitting any documentation.
Online applications close May 31.
To view a list of awards and specific requirements visit https://www.uvic.ca/registrar/safa/in-course-scholarships/application/index.php.
How to apply:
>Log on to Online Tools
>Student services
>Select Finances
>Awards and financial aid
>Apply for awards (scholarships and bursaries) and work study
>In-Course and then follow the application portal
For more information on how to apply go to https://www.uvic.ca/registrar/safa/in-course-scholarships/apply/index.php.
Questions can be directed to awards1@uvic.ca or awards3@uvic.ca.