Employer On-Campus Info Session: Weyerhaeuser

Forest Sciences Centre 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Event Overview Weyerhaeuser Princeton is a great place to start your career and learn about the wood products industry. A career here will give you the opportunity to learn people, technical, and business skills, and there is a huge opportunity to grow within the company and the industry as a whole. This is an opportunity to […]

2022 Year in Review and Considerations for 2023

Online/Virtual Event

Speaker: Michal Jaworski, Partner and Co-Chair of Higher Learning Practice, Clark Wilson Description: After almost six years as in-house counsel at the University of British Columbia, Michal returned to private practice where he continues to strengthen his ties to the post-secondary community in Canada as the Co-Chair of Clark Wilson's Higher Learning Practice. Where there […]

Lay Summaries: Going Public With Your Research

Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Lay summaries offer researchers opportunities to increase the visibility and accessibility of their research and thus invite public dialogue. As a way to promote science communication, many open access journals, public policy institutes, and granting agencies require researchers to provide summaries of their studies for non-specialists. But how do scholars communicate specialized research to non-specialist […]

Literature reviews: Searching and keeping track

Online/Virtual Event

New to literature reviews? Looking to brush up your skills? This is the workshop for you! We will cover the purposes of literature reviews; the different types of reviews; finding the right databases; developing effective search strategies; locating scholarly articles, theses/dissertations, books, and more; and resources to help you keep track of your research. There […]

Free

Employer On-Campus Info Session: Government of Canada – Public Service Commission

Brock Hall 1874 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Event Overview Canada’s federal public service recruitment programs are the gateway to multiple career opportunities across Canada and overseas for students and soon-to-be graduates. Jobs range from policy analysts to software engineers and skilled trades positions, from border services officers to physical scientists and statisticians. This session will go over the recruitment programs available, range […]

Introduction to R and RStudio (beginner)

Online/Virtual Event

R is popular for many applications including data visualization and statistical analysis. This beginner orientation is suitable for people with little or no R experience. It will help you decide whether R is the right tool for your data analysis needs and introduce R terminology using the RStudio interface. The workshop is one hour, followed […]

Free

Drop-In Career Advising for Undergraduate Arts Students

Online/Virtual Event

Carli Fink, the Arts Career Strategist, will be offering drop-in advising for undergraduate Arts students from 1–3 PM Wednesdays during Term 1. Undergraduate Arts students are encouraged to drop in – no appointment needed! – and ask any career questions they may have. Students will be seen individually for up to 10 minutes each (unless […]

Postdoc Teaching Practicum: January–April 2023

Online/Virtual Event

Click “Register Now” to apply for the Teaching Practicum. Your application will be reviewed and if you are selected as a participant you will be contacted by email after application closes. Application closes on December 19. This event will be held online on Zoom. What is the Postdoc Teaching Practicum? The next Postdoc Teaching Practicum […]

Graduate Teaching Practicum: January-April 2023

Online/Virtual Event

Click “Register Now” to apply for the Teaching Practicum. Your application will be reviewed and if you are selected as a participant you will be contacted by email after application closes. Application closes on December 19. This event will be held online on Zoom. What is the Graduate Teaching Practicum? The next Graduate Teaching Practicum […]

Setting up a development environment

Online/Virtual Event

While many argue that the best way to learn to code is to simply start coding, having the right set of tools makes coding much more enjoyable and productive. In this workshop, we explore the differences between development environments and basic text editors, and we will set up a simple development environment using Visual Studio […]

Free

Drop-In Career Advising for International Undergraduate Students

Online/Virtual Event

Irene Navarro, Career Educator, will be offering virtual drop-in advising for international undergraduate students from 1–3 PM Thursdays. International undergraduate students are encouraged to drop in – no appointment needed! – and ask any career questions they may have. Students will be seen individually for up to 10 minutes each (unless demand is low, in […]