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Dear Students,

On behalf of the Search Committee for the Associate Vice-President Academic Planning (“the Committee”), I am writing to inform you of the next steps in the search process. The Committee has crafted a position profile in consultation with constituency groups, completed six long list video-conference interviews, and, selected three candidates to participate in site visits over the coming weeks. The site visits are scheduled to take place on:

Candidate A: September 26-27

Candidate B: September 30-October 1

Candidate C: October 3-4

During the site visits, the three short-listed Candidates have been asked to do a public presentation on the following question:

How do you see the role of AVP Academic Planning contributing to the Strategic Framework of the University? What do you see as some of the future opportunities for the role and UVic?

The presentations have been scheduled at the following times and dates:

Candidate A: September 26, 12:00 pm – 12:50 pm in Medical Sciences Building (MSB) 160

Candidate B: September 30, 1:00 pm – 1:50 pm in University Club Salal Room

Candidate C: October 3, 12:15 pm – 1:05 pm in Medical Sciences Building (MSB) 160

The Committee encourages all members of the campus community to attend the public presentations and provide feedback to the Committee. We acknowledge that September 30th is Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Jewish New Year and the first of the Jewish High Holy Days. All presentations will be recorded and uploaded to the VPAC site for those who are unable to attend in person. You will also find the finalized position profile on the VPAC site (https://www.uvic.ca/opportunities/leadership/current/avpap-2019.php), and CVs for each candidate will be uploaded a few days prior to each scheduled site visit. You will need to log in with your netlink ID.

The policy and procedures for the Associate Vice-President Academic Planning role may be viewed at https://www.uvic.ca/universitysecretary/assets/docs/policies/GV0350.pdf.

Thank you for your participation and engagement in this process.

Sincerely,

Valerie S. Kuehne, Ph.D.
Vice-President Academic and Provost & Chair of the Appointment and Re-appointment Committee
University of Victoria

 

 

Community Gathering

A community gathering for reflection and support will be held at the University of Victoria on Tuesday, Sept. 17 to provide students, faculty and staff with a space to unite and reflect in the wake of the recent bus accident in which two students died and several were injured. Everyone is welcome to attend the event organized by UVic in collaboration with University of Victoria Students’ Society (UVSS). The event will be held from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. at BiblioCafé, on the ground floor of the Mearns Centre for Learning (McPherson Library), with brief remarks from university and UVSS leaders. UVic support staff will be present to assist members of UVic’s community. This venue is in the heart of campus, yet there is limited space so please arrive on time.

 

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