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You may know her as a mild-mannered art history professor, but Jill Bain was making history as a pioneer punk rocker from Vancouver Island at the age of 15. Excerpted from the Victoria Times Colonist: The Dishrags — singer-guitarist Jill (Jade Blade) Bain, singer-bassist Chris (Dale Powers) Lalonde, and drummer Carmen (Scout) Michaud — flamed … Read more

UFV and our sister BC Association of Institutes and Universities (BCAIU) are working together to pilot an online Research and Scholarly Activity Database Project (RSADB). The RSADB pilot gathers and reports faculty and student scholarship, research, and service activities. The RSADB is a web-based information management system designed to organize and build reports on these … Read more

The College Pension Plan has added some member scenarios to the FAQ on their website that demonstrate how the plan design changes will affect members. Please visit www.pensionsbc.ca or click on this link. For more information, contact Debbie Dyck at debbie.dyck@ufv.ca 08/31/2014

(Excerpt from a Globe and Mail story published on May 20, 2014): As the Canada Research Chair in Food Security and Environment at the University of the Fraser Valley, Dr. Lenore Newman tries to look into the future. And she doesn’t like what she sees in British Columbia where – just as we are reaching … Read more

Business admin professor Fiona McQuarrie spoke on the CBC Early Edition radio show on Wed, May 21 regarding the BC teachers’ collective bargaining dispute. Listen to it here: http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/bcearlyedition_20140521_58726.mp3

George Bowering reading The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford Thurs, May 29 6:30 pm The two faces of modern contemporary literature in BC are bill bissett and George Bowering. Bowering, Canada’s first Parliamentary poet laureate, will read from his groundbreaking body of work in prose and poetry. Organized in conjunction with the bill bissett show: “textual … Read more

Over the next five weeks your MFD (Multi-Functioning Device) will be swapped out with new technology. Prior to installation, the departmental designate in your area will be notified personally of the changes. On the day of installation there will be a Xerox rep to answer any questions. We will have video instructions on the print … Read more

Welcome to the following new employees, who have joined UFV recently: Kevin Bent — Program Technician, Faculty of Applied and Technical Studies Heidi Calzavara — Accounts Receivable Officer, Finance and Administration Janet Davis — Assistant Professor, Practical Nursing, School of Health Studies.

Attention parents of elementary school children: The UFV Faculty of Science is offering Science Rocks! summer camps again in July and August. Our popular camps are designed especially for young people in Grades 4, 5, and 6 (campers going into Grade 4 or 7 are eligible). These camps are great fun and an awesome learning … Read more

The former Faculty of Trades and Technology has changed its name to the Faculty of Applied and Technical Studies. We request that UFV faculty and staff please take a few moments to update your documents and communications to reflect our new Faculty name. This new name reflects the diversity and evolving complex nature of our … Read more

UFV employees are being offered 30% off the latest book by UFV philosophy professor Peter Raabe. Titled Philosophy’s Role in Counseling and Psychotherapy, the book argues that philosophy can effectively inform and improve conventional methods of treating mental illness. Raabe presents clinical evidence showing that mild and so-called clinical mental illnesses can be both prevented … Read more

If you are receiving email with the subject ‘Microsoft Exchange 2014’ stating that your outlook account is migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2014, and you need to activate it, please DO NOT CLICK on any enclosed links. Please note these messages are spam/phishing attempts. The email is NOT from the UFV IT department. If you have … Read more

It’s been a busy few weeks at UFV, and Marcom photographers have been capturing images of student and employee achievement at many events. See photos from: the Aviation Wings ceremony the latest Bachelor of Science in Nursing class the annual Math contest. the Graphic and Digital Design grad show the Directors’ Theatre Festival students out … Read more

Davida Kidd (Visual Arts) and Debbie Wheeler (Biology) recently collaborated on a collograph project. In Davida’s words: “This Cyborg Print Media collograph project was one in which we were challenged to create an insect with a mechanical component.  Additionally, a creative story was to take the place of the standard artist’s statement. As part of … Read more