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SSHRC has recently launched its annual Storytellers contest, challenging post-secondary students to show Canadians how social sciences and humanities research affects our lives, our world, and our future prosperity. The contest is open to all students, graduate and undergraduate, enrolled at Canadian post-secondary institutions. Their task is to tell the story, in three minutes or … Read more
The College of Arts and The Reach are co-hosting a presentation by Canadian museologist George Jacob on Creating Cultural Capital: Global Museum Industry Insights Mon, January 16 4:30–6 pm Abby B101 What is the role of museums and culture in our increasingly virtual and changing inter-connected world of accelerated communication and global mobility? Museums are … Read more
Join Art History & Visual Arts in Venice, Italy May 20-31, 2017 Limited seats remaining Some of the sites: Venice Biennale, The Islands: Cimitero, Murano, Torcello, Burano; Palazzo Grassi, Doge’s Place, Padua Chapel, San Giorio Maggiore, St Mark’s Square, Peggy Guggenheim Collection; The Grand Canal; Bridge of Sighs, Accademia Galleries http://www.ufv.ca/ufv_visual_arts/ For more information, … Read more
A presentation by Yvon Dandurand, facilitated by Dr. Amy Prevost, discussing Crime Prevention and the Transition to Democracy in Myanmar (formerly Burma). Tues, Jan 10 11:30 am-1 pm Abby A225. Refreshments will be served. Everyone is welcome! For more information, contact Cecelia Dirksen at Cecelia.Dirksen@ufv.ca 01/10/2017
Financial Aid and Awards Tips for December Tip #1: If you require a student loan for the winter semester and you haven’t already applied, do so on-line at www.studentaidbc.ca Tip #2: Loan documents for January will soon be confirmed electronically. Please contact financial aid and awards for details on processing your loan to ensure that … Read more
Become a Certified Payroll Professional! A career in payroll is very rewarding and becoming a Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP) will ensure you have the compliance knowledge and payroll skills needed for success. Employers look for the PCP certification when hiring and consistently pay a higher salary to those who have achieved it (Hays Canada Payroll … Read more
Hope Centre hosted a Study Skills Challenge for the Fall 2016 semester where students could win weekly prizes for participating and a chance at the grand prize (a stack of gift cards to Hope retailers) for most overall points. To accrue points, students planned their semester homework schedules, demonstrated great attendance rates, took in motivational … Read more
Winter semester Campus Card issuance for students starts January 3, 2017. For information on dates and times please visit http://ufv.ca/campuscard/. For more information, contact Campus Card at campuscard@ufv.ca 12/10/2016
NSERC’s Science, Action! video contest is back! Are you a student with a cool research project to share with the world? Do you know a scientist or engineer with an incredible story to tell? Think you can capture it in a 60-second video? The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) Science, Action! … Read more
Facilities Management has scheduled Eltec Elevator to perform service maintenance on the elevator for Abbotsford Building D on Tues, Dec 20, and Wed, Dec 21 to address an accessibility design issue and bring the elevator controls up to building code. Elevator services in Building D will be temporarily unavailable for two-days while the work is … Read more
Do you know a student whose family could use some help at Christmas? The Angel Tree program helps support our UFV students who face many challenges as they raise their families while pursuing their education. Pick up and return completed applications to the UFV Financial Aid Office by 2 pm, Nov 30, 2016 Chwk A1318 … Read more
As of November 15, Teaching & Learning, and Educational Technology Services will move to office G159 temporarily during office renovations. http://ufv.ca/tlc/ For more information, contact Peggy Walker at peggy.walker@ufv.ca 11/19/2016 Save Save
Some events at the Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Centre to be aware of, as they affect traffic and parking congestion on and around campus. Fri, Nov 4 – Marianas Trench Concert: 7:30 pm Wed, Nov 16 – Mamma Mia Musical: 7:30 pm Fri, Nov 18 – Michael W. Smith & Amy Grant Concert: 7 pm … Read more
Auditions for UFV Theatre’s production of Euripides’ Bakkhai, in a new adaptation by Anne Carson and directed/designed collaboratively by UFV Theatre faculty members Raïna von Waldenburg and Parjad Sharifi, are coming up in October. The details: General Day One … Mon Nov 28, 5-8pm General Day Two … Tuesday Nov 29, 6-9pm Callbacks … Mon … Read more
Grand Theft Terra Firma: Stories of (Re)conciliation is a performance project that will explore how S’ólh Téméxw — the traditional and unceded lands of the Stó:lō (People of the River) — began being colonized in the mid-1800s and ask how that history is lived today, by people of both Indigenous and settler ancestry. The performance … Read more