SFU Graduate Studies

The 26th Annual Fall Semester TA/TM Day — The Teaching Orientation Program — is coming up in September.

Friday, September 9, 2011
8:30 am–4:30 pm
Opening Plenary Session: Diamond Alumni Centre | SFU Burnaby

TA/TM Day addresses teaching and technological skills that are essential for you as a teaching assistant or tutor marker. Advance registration is not required, but your time at TA/TM Day counts toward your TA/TM work hours for the fall semester.

The fall 201 program for TA/TM Day is now available.

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SFU graduate students are invited to share their climate change-related research at the Sustainability Festival which will be held at SFU on September 20, 2011. The festival is co-sponsored by the Sustainable SFU, Faculty of Environment, SFU Sustainability and Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions.

The poster session is an excellent opportunity for graduate students to share their research with the SFU community. More details are available on the sustainability_poster guidelines (PDF).

Research areas can cover but are not limited to:

• sustainable communities
• low carbon emissions economy
• resilient ecosystems
• social mobilization
• health and climate change
• effects of climate change on ecosystems
• mitigation and adaptation measures

There is a prize of $200 $300 for the best poster, as adjudicated by a panel of faculty members. For further information contact Nastenka Calle, PICS-SFU Coordinator at n_calle@sfu.ca

Submission deadline: August 20, 2011 September 6, 2011.

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Barbara Lindenberg will be presenting her final MFA dance project for the School for the Contemporary Arts on August 18, 2011, 8 pm, at the WISE Hall in Vancouver. Admission is by donation.

A Thousand Mountains brings Barbara Lindenberg’s choreography to the charming dancefloor of Vancouver’s Wise Hall. From unsettlingly silent lip-synching to slow motion depictions of crowd surfing, each dance creates a world on its own and in relation to others. Best performed in informal environments, Barbara’s dances are short events of a depictive nature. These highly accessible works present a synthesis of simplicity, complexity, absurdity, and optimism.

Barbara Lindenberg is a choreographer/performer who creates contemporary dance for the stage as well as site-specific works. She had the pleasure of carrying forward research and creation as a guest with the Amsterdam Master of Choreography (AMCh) at the Amsterdamse Hoogeschool voor de Kunsten this past spring/summer.

She has worked with songwriters and composers including Jennifer Castle, Dave Chokroun, Eric Chenaux, John Sherlock, Dale Morningstar, Jason Benoit, Jonathan Adjemian, Taylor Rankin and Michael Overton. While she most often creates and performs her own choreography she has also performed dances by Marie France Forcier, Learie McNicolls, Megan English, Aimée Dawn Robinson, Hope Terry, Magali Charrier, Sara Porter, Denise Duric, Allen Kaeja and others.

Her dances have been presented by Nuit Blanche (Toronto), Just for Laughs Street Festival (Toronto), Fringe Shanghai, Series 808 Season Finale, AWOL Gallery’s wHole exhibition, Lab Cabaret, A Month of Sundays, Au Revoir Darling, and Up Darling. Barbara has also presented sets of dances independently at a variety of informal venues in Vancouver and Toronto.

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The Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies will be presenting two scholarship writing workshops this August for SFU graduate students who would like to apply to the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (for PhD students) or the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (or any other postdoctoral fellowship).

Topics that will be covered:

Think Again! is the inaugural graduate student conference at Simon Fraser University, hosted by the Graduate Student Society on October 22, 2011.

This one-day interdisciplinary conference will connect graduate student researchers to share perspectives from all areas of study. Think Again! is an opportunity for you to showcase your research, exchange ideas and learn from each others through presentations, performances, posters and displays.

The deadline to submit your proposal is September 1 at 4 pm.

In addition, volunteers are still needed to play a role in reviewing proposals, facilitating sessions, and ensuring a smooth conference.

For more information, visit www.sfugradsociety.ca/thinkagain.html or email thinkagain@sfugradsociety.ca.

Think Again! header designed by Visnja Milidragovic, MPub ‘11.

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David Beckham’s soccer team, the LA Galaxy, will be playing against the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday, July 30.

And SFU’s Graduate Student Society has organized a social event to take place at the game!

Graduate students should register with a $10 contribution to the cost of the tickets (regularly $27) at the GSS Office. Space is limited — please submit your Registration Form and payment before July 18 2011.

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The Faculty of Education invites all graduate students to attend Summer Institute 2011: Transitions, Innovations, and Opportunities in Education, to be held from July 14–16 at SFU’s Surrey campus.

The keynote presentations:

• Challenges of Re-Positioning Teaching and Learning in a Research-intensive University, Jonathan Driver, Vice President, Academic and Provost of Simon Fraser University
• Leadership for Mortals: Developing and Sustaining Leaders of Learning, Dean Fink, International Educational Development Consultant, Author
• Prisoner’s Dilemma and the Hidden Curriculum, Kenneth Pawlak, Faculty Member, Social Sciences Division, Langara College

In addition, the conference organizers are inviting submissions for presentations from faculty, teachers, current and former graduate students, school leaders and stakeholders. Proposals are due by June 30, 2011.

Admission to the Summer Institute is free but seating is limited so reservations are recommended.

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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers  (IEEE) is holding a symposium in Vancouver this July 24–27: The 20th IEEE International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics, jointly held with the International Symposium on Piezoresponse Force Microscopy & Nanoscale Phenomena in Polar Materials.

Graduate students are invited to participate in the short courses on Sunday, July 24 and in the poster competition. Some financial assistance may still be available.

They’re also looking for student volunteers to help out at the symposium. Volunteers can request to be an attendant at specific sessions and will receive full admission to attend lectures and sessions around their volunteer schedule.

For information on how to get involved, contact Regan Belan, MSc candidate in chemistry, by email to rab11@sfu.ca

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The SFU Graduate International Community Program invites all grad students and their partners and families for an afternoon of coffee, tea, snacks … and an opportunity to build friendships with others from diverse backgrounds.

Thursday, July 7
Snacks and mingling from 4–5:30 pm
AQ 2013 (next to Simon C’s Convenience Store), SFU Burnaby
Cost is a loonie ($1) for yourself, a toonie ($2) if you bring along your spouse/partner, and kids are free! This small commitment fee supports their program costs.

As space is limited, and to ensure adequate refreshments, please RSVP to Mari Ng Mizobe, Program Coordinator at intl_community@sfu.ca. Please include number of attendees.

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SFU’s Department of Gerontology & Gerontology Research Centre invite you to an interactive seminar with Peggy Edwards, Allan Thomas Fellow, Carold Institute to Promote Civil Society and Voluntary Action.

Wednesday June 15, 1–2:30 pm
Room 2250, Harbour Centre building
SFU Vancouver, 515 West Hastings

As seating is limited, please RSVP by calling 778-782-5065.

Peggy will be exploring questions of how we can engage and nurture older women volunteers as advocates in civil society, and how we might foster intergenerational empowerment.

She is a health promotion consultant who specializes in healthy aging, intergenerational issues, voluntarism and advocacy for social justice. She has worked with Health Canada and the World Health Organization on these issues.

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