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A farewell gathering for Marnie Wright will be held Oct 25 in room A225 of the UFV Abbotsford campus. Wright, who has been a member of the UFV human resources department since June 2018, is moving back home to wintery Saskatchewan. Attendees are asked to wear scarves and toques to this event. Wed, Oct 25, … Read more
Congratulations to Barbara Salingre, BEd advisor and associate professor in Teacher Education, who received the Association of BC Deans of Education (ABCDE) Teacher Educator award this year. Barbara was a founding employee in the Teacher Education program in 2006 and has been at employed at UFV in various capacities since 1991. 2023 Teacher Educator award … Read more
Whitney Fordham has been selected to take on the role of Director, Alumni Relations and Executive Director, UFV Alumni Association. She will be the first person to hold this new position. A UFV alumna herself, Whitney has had a long and positive relationship with UFV, and is currently the Manager, Alumni Relations, a position she … Read more
Camille Callison has been appointed as University Librarian at the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV). In this role, Callison will be head of UFV’s multi-campus libraries. Camille comes to UFV from the University of Manitoba, where she is currently the Indigenous Strategies Librarian. She will be starting her new role at UFV on July … Read more
Katie Tuck has been selected as UFV’s new Chief Information Officer (CIO). Tuck joins UFV from Yukon University where she served as Director of IT and Chief Information Officer. Tuck’s career has spanned the globe, from her birthplace in the UK to Houston, Texas, and other locations across the United States and Canada. She brings … Read more
Math and Stats department assistant Margret Bollerup is also a published poet. She is pictured above with her mum, Roberta, whom she describes as: former physician, fierce friend, intrepid Guider, and general firecracker, now lives with mixed (Alzheimer’s and vascular) dementia. Roberta’s husband Bryan is her main caregiver, but it is a testament to the … Read more
Joanna Sheppard (Kinesiology) has been appointed to the Physical and Health Education Canada Board of Directors as its British Columbia & Yukon Representative. Joanna Sheppard is an associate professor in the School of Kinesiology. As a pedagogy specialist, Dr. Sheppard is an advocate for equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and embeds theoretical and critical best … Read more
English alumna Jasmin Kaur (BA ’17) will publish If I Tell You the Truth, her second book with Harper Collins Canada, on January 19. She will also be giving a virtual author reading via the Fraser Valley Regional Library on January 21. More about Jasmin here: https://www.jasminkaur.com/ And her thoughts on her UFV experience here: … Read more
Robbyn Bennett (MA, RCC) has joined UFV in a new position on the Vice President Students team, as the inaugural Director, Counselling and Student Wellness. This position is responsible for providing strategic leadership and direction on student wellness programming and services, advancing a vision of holistic student wellness across the institution, which meets the needs … Read more
Phyllis Stenson, who was a friend of UFV for more than four decades, passed away on November 22. Phyllis was the founding executive director of the Harrison Festival of the Arts. Over the decades the Harrison Festival and UFV in all its incarnations partnered on cultural initiatives, including the Literary Cafe at and Evening of … Read more
Graphic designers bring empathy to social issues, and make the complex clear through visual solutions. Thirty-three years ago, when she was just launching her design careeer, UFV Graphic and Digital Design department head Karin Jager did so for the World Food Programme, designing their first logo. Now WFP is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and … Read more
A book about the Komagata Maru incident has received an honourable mention in the Canadian Studies Network’s 2020 prize for the Best Edited Collection in Canadian Studies. The jury gave an honourable mention to Unmooring the Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories, edited by Rita Kaur Dhamoon, Davina Bhandar, Renisa Mawani and Satwinder Kaur Bains, published … Read more
Congratulations to the following faculty members, who have received professor emeritus status. Dr. Trevor Carolan, English, College of Arts Lynn Kirkland Harvey, Communication, College of Arts Dr. Doug Hudson, Social, Cultural, and Media Studies; College of Arts Dr. Adrienne Chan, Social Work and Human Services; Faculty of Professional Studies John Belec, School of Land Use … Read more
Aziz Ghafoor, a second-year Kinesiology student at UFV, recently became the first-ever student from UFV to attend the 2020 National Collegiate Research Conference (NCRC) at Harvard University. The NCRC, which was created in 2012 by the Harvard College Undergraduate Association, is the largest student-run research conference in the United States and allows undergraduate students from … Read more
Welcome to the following new employees, and congratulations to those who have changed jobs. New Hires, Moves and Changes, January 2020 Nicole Cullen — Department Assistant, College of Arts Darius Mavis — Analyst I, Security Tatiana Voiniciuc — Analyst I, Systems moved from Developer, Web Applications Brian Wright — Team Lead, Audio Visual Oksana Ivanenko … Read more