~ Today is Tuesday, 07 / Sep / 2010 ~
The Office of the Dean of Graduate Programs is pleased to be hosting two upcoming workshops.
Please note: We are hoping to offer both of these workshops to our regional students via Eluminate.
More information on this opportunity will be available at a later date.
SSHRC Scholarship/Fellowship Workshop
Roxanne Dompierre, SSHRC Project Officer, will be presenting information on SSHRC’s scholarship and fellowship programs.
Who should attend: Graduate students as well as undergraduate students interested in pursuing graduate studies.
Date: Thursday September 16, 2010
Time: 9:00 am to 11:00 am
Location: 7-170/7-172 (Bentley Centre)
NSERC Scholarship Workshop
The Office of the Dean of Graduate Programs will be presenting information on NSERC’s scholarship programs.
Who should attend: Graduate students as well as undergraduate students interested in pursuing graduate studies.
Date: Thursday September 30, 2010
Time: 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Location: 5-155 (Library Building)
For those interested in international data, the World Bank is now offering free access to more than 2,000 statistical series, including their World Development Indicators.
Topic categories include Agriculture & Rural Development, Aid Effectiveness, Economic Policy & External Debt, Education, Energy & Mining, Environment, Financial Sector, Health, Infrastructure, Labor & Social Protection, Poverty, Private Sector, Public Sector, Science & Technology, Social Development, and Urban Development.
To access this data, go to http://data.worldbank.org/.
The National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) is pleased to announce our 2010 national conference, “Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow”. It will take place in Winnipeg, Manitoba at the Delta Hotel from November 12-14. The conference will focus on solutions to drive change in accessible education and employment for students with disabilities.
This year’s event will be an exciting opportunity for students, consumer advocates, service providers, employers and all others interested in exploring key issues of equal access to post secondary education and employment for students and graduates with disabilities. The fully bilingual conference welcomes delegates from across Canada and around the world!
The conference has been extended this year to three full days of workshops. Some themes that will be explored include:
- Job Search Strategies
- Financial Barriers of Post Secondary Education
- Perspectives from Students with Disabilities
- The Use of Social Media by Students with Disabilities
- Issues around Mental Health and Chronic Illness
For more information, including our early bird rate, the schedule, registration forms and details about our speakers go to www.neads.ca/conference2010
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The Faculty of Medicine’s eHealth Strategy Office at UBC has an exciting, upcoming VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY with the iCON Project:
Chinese Diabetes Health Forum:
Join Your Community in the Quest for Better Health
Saturday, June 5th, 2010
2:00pm – 4:30pm
University of Northern British Columbia
Northern Health Sciences Centre
3333 University Way
Prince George, BC V2N 4Z9
Room: 9-200
Background Information
The iCON (interCultural Online Health Network) Project is an initiative of the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s eHealth Strategy Office that engages and promotes communication between community members and health professionals in Lower Mainland through culturally-relevant patient-centered health education materials created and distributed in a number of languages for prevention and management of prevalent chronic diseases.
Building on iCON’s success and momentum from recent community engagement activities, our Office supported by the Public Health Agency of Canada, the BC Ministry of Health, the Health Authorities of BC, the Irving K. Barber Centre at UBC, Safeway Pharmacy and the UBC Department of Medicine is hosting a public diabetes education forum for members of Chinese community by videoconference in Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna and Prince George on Saturday, June 5th, 2010.
Volunteer Information:
Position Title: Volunteer Research Assistant
Job Description:
The eHealth Strategy Office is looking for student volunteers to assist in a variety of activities at iCON’s upcoming “Chinese Diabetes Health Forum: Join Your Community in the Quest for Better Health” event on Saturday, June 5th. At this forum, you will be actively engaged with patients and members of the Chinese community at Prince George site.
We want YOU to help us:
- Confirm the registration of attendees as they arrive
- Recruit forum attendees to complete feedback surveys
- Assist in survey data collection
- Assist with question and answer session
- Interact with patients and members of the Chinese community
Incentives for participation:
- A certificate and personalized letter of recognition detailing the total number hours spent volunteering
Commitment:
A total of 6.0 hours:
- Attend the research training session on Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 from 12:00PM – 1:30PM in preparation for the forum (1.5 hours); and
- Attend the forum on Saturday, June 5th, 2010 from 12:30PM – 5:00PM (4.5hours).
The Research Training Session on Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 from 12:00PM – 1:30PM is mandatory as we will be going over important details about the day and the research activities you will be involved in. This session will be hosted by videoconference; the location is TBD.
If you are interested in volunteering, but are unable to make it to the training, please let us know immediately so that we may work out an alternative plan.
Volunteers will be required to be at the forum on Saturday, June 5th, 2010 from 12:30PM – 5:00PM.
Requirements & Qualifications:
Student volunteers need to have:
- Ability to understand and speak Mandarin and/or Cantonese
and/or
- Ability to read and/or type Mandarin and/or Cantonese
All volunteers will receive a letter detailing their contributions and certificate of recognition for their participation.
Further, if you know of anyone who speaks/understands and/or reads/writes Cantonese that may be interested in volunteering at any of the forum locations (Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna and Prince George) – please let us know!
Contact Name: Amanjit Kang
Contact e-mail: ehealthstudent@gmail.com
Contact Phone: 604-875-4111 ext. 69147
