SEDS Canada is hiring! Students for the Exploration and Development of Space is a National Non-Profit with the mission of providing Canadian Students with unique projects, research programs, and professional development opportunities in the Canadian government, industrial and institutional space sectors. These are unpaid positions. If you want to work with incredible students and professionals who are passionate about space this is an amazing opportunity! 🚀
Apply here: http://seds.ca/join/
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. We appreciate your support in helping inform interested students of this opportunity. Any questions can be directed to myself or the project team at canarx@seds.ca.
Thank you,
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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.
Do you plan to pursue a career in teaching? Applications for the Corrina Ewan Memorial Scholarship are being accepted until June 15. Send completed applications to dsecchem@uvic.ca.
Corrina Ewan Memorial Scholarship Application 2021
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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).
We look forward to receiving your application in the Dean’s Office by May 31, 2021.
Greetings from the Consulate General of Japan:
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Government of Japan is currently accepting applications for the 2022 Research Student Scholarship for students who wish to study at Japanese universities as research or post-graduate students.
The scholarship covers:
The Research Student Scholarship is aimed at university graduates, born on or after April 2, 1987 (for the 2022 scholarship year). The area of research or post-grad study should be in the same or related field that the applicant has previously studied.
Application guides and forms are available through the links on the Consulate General of Japan website:
https://www.vancouver.ca.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/mext_en.html. Application deadline for the 2022 scholarship year: May 12, 2021.
Applicants who successfully pass the written application screening are required to undertake an interview and examination (English and Japanese language) to be held in late June/early July 2021. Due to COVID-19, the process for the interviews and examinations will be announced at a later date. Normally, interviews and examinations must be conducted in-person at the Consulate General of Japan’s offices. Please note that fluency in Japanese is not necessarily required, but dependent on the nature of the university and study program as selected by the scholarship candidate.
If you have any questions or concerns, contact us at 604.684.5868 or by Email at jet@vc.mofa.go.jp.
Kind regards,
Steve Chevalier
Culture & Education Specialist/JET Programme Coordinator Culture & Public Relations, Consulate General of Japan
604-684-5868 ext. 397 | jet@vc.mofa.go.jp www.vancouver.ca.emb-japan.go.jp | jetprogramme.ca
900-1177 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6E 2K9
The Chemistry Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (Chem EDI) invites you to attend Indigenous Cultural Acumen Training which has been organized for all members of the Chemistry Department, which includes undergraduate students. This training will provide you with information about the colonial context (historical and current) of Indigenous peoples in Canada.
May 3, 2021
2:00-4:00 pm
Register at https://www.surveymonkey.ca/r/RGWYFR7