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Important information to help you along your graduate journey. 

 
 

Endnote Instruction 

These two successive tutorial sessions teach participants how to use Endnote, a "bibliographic citation management software" used to manage and organize your research literature. More

 
 

The sessions will be held in L959 on: 

  • Tuesday, Dec 2, 4:30-6 pm and
  • Thursday, Dec 4, 4:30-6 pm
 
 

Online Registration

The SGS is excited to announce that graduate students in the MA, MFA, MMus, MSc, and PhD programs will now register online.

Students in these programs will be able to register via the Bridge. from Monday, December 8, 2014, 8:30 AM until Tuesday, January 13, 2015, 11:30 PM.

See the Spring 2015 Registration Guide for students in the MA, MFA, MMus, MSc, and PhD programs for details. 

 

Postdoctoral Fellow Opportunity

UBC Pulmonary Rehabilitation Research Laboratory has a position available for a postdoctoral fellow working in the area of rehabilitation, northern and rural health, and clinical learning and education. More

 
 

Winter School on Remote Sensing of Exoplanets

A two day long winter school on Remote Sensing of Exoplanets will be held at our University on December 4 and 5, aimed primarily at graduate students involved in hysperspectral remote sensing activities, physics and astronomy, geography. More

 

U of L launches Master of Nursing program

Recognizing an incresing need for Registered Nurses at the graduate level, the University, through the Faculty of Health Sciences, is introducing a Master of Nursing program to complement its already robust health sciences programming options. More

Questions? Email the Faculty of Health Sciences 

 

SGS New Website

The School of Graduate Studies is very excited to announce that our brand new website is now live!

The new website is designed to make finding information faster and easier for future students, current students, and faculty and staff and offers easy navigation, and a content-rich experience.

The most significant change is that the new website is more robust and includes individual websites for graduate programs: Master of ArtsMaster of CounsellingMaster of EducationMaster of Fine ArtsMaster of MusicMaster of ScienceMaster of Science (Mgt), and Doctor of Philosophy

This new website structure is more closely aligned with our strategic vision and will allow us to grow and expand with each of our graduate programs. 

We are very proud of our new website and hope it helps you to find information and services just a little bit easier!

 
 

Coming Up in the SGS

 
 

Scholarships and Awards

Mitacs Graduate Accelerate
Value
: $15,000/year for 4-6 months
Eligibility: graduate students; Canadian, PR, international
Deadline: on-going

TriCouncil (NSERC, SSHRC & CIHR) Masters Scholarship
Value
: $17,500
Eligibility: Canadian, PR 
Deadline: Dec. 1st 

 

Calendar of Events

Dec 2 - Endnote Instruction - Part 1

Dec 3 - Introduction to Public Speaking - Part 2

Dec 4 - Endnote Instruction - Part 2

Dec 4-5 - Winter School on Remote Sensing of Exoplanets

Dec 9 - ORIS Brown Bag - PDFs at the UofL

Jan 23 - Human Ethics Workshop

Jan 26 - Animal Research Ethics Workshop

 

Call for Papers

2015 McGill-Queen's Graduate Conference in History

Mark your calendars!  The Practical and Impractical Past, the 12th McGill-Queen’s Graduate Conference in History, will be held at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario on March 6-7, 2015. More

The deadline for abstract submissions is December 1, 2014.

 
 


Thesis Defences

Nov 28 - Sheila Macdonald: MA Archaeology

Dec 1 - Aubrey Demchuk: MSc Neuroscience

Dec 3 - Claudia Daniela Schwindel: PhD Neuroscience

Dec 3 - Syed Hammad Ali: MSc (Mgmt) Thesis Proposal Presentation

Dec 5 - Lidiya Luzhna: PhD Biomolecular Science

Dec 8 - Andrew Hudson: PhD Biomolecular Science 

Dec 9 - Devin Cairns: MSc Environmental Science

Dec 9 - Catherine Laskowski: MSc Neuroscience

Dec 10 - Danielle Burger: MSc Neuroscience

Dec 11 - Arielle Perrotta: MA Individualized Multidisciplinary

Dec 11 - Mohammad Akbari: MSc Computer Science

Dec 12 - Sherif Abdelazim: MSc Physics  

Dec 12 - Colin MacFarlane: MSc Biological Sciences

Dec 16 - Daniel Gaudet: MSc Biological Science

Dec 16 - Md Kamruzzaman: MSc Physics

Dec 16 - Md Zamilur Rahman: MSc Computer Science

Dec 17 - Tanner Heggie: MSc Physics

Dec 17 - Cheyenne Conrad: MSc Biological Sciences

Dec 18 - Sathi Roy: MSc Computer Science and GIS.

Dec 19 - Peter Kennedy: MSc Geography

Dec 19 - Mollah Shorif: MSc Computer Science

Jan 12 - Abraham Tinney: MA Sociology 

 
 

Keep in Touch with the SGS

if you would like to meet with someone in the Graduate Studies Office book an appointment with us so that we are able to provide all students and Faculty with better assistance.

 

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