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Sept 14-20, 2014 GEOG 470 – 5 credits Cost: $900 plus tuition Information Session: Feb 20, 2014, 1 pm in A413 Do you know students interested in participating in Adventures in Geography (GEOG 470) and spending 5 days in California next September? Are they passionate about Sustainability, Urban Geography and Transportation Planning? Then tell them … Read more
Metis Day awareness runs Wed, Feb 19 from 11 am-3 pm inside the Aboriginal Gathering Place on the Chilliwack campus at CEP (A1457) Agenda: 11 am Welcome: Metis elder Rene Inkster Song: Eddie Gardner/Theresa Neel 11:15 am Metis history/sash/flag: Metis elder Rene Inkster 12:15 pm Lunch — hamburger soup, oven bannock 1:15 pm Entertainment (jigging) … Read more
Call for proposals for UFV’s Professional Development Day Mon, May 5 Sponsored by UFV’s Teaching and Learning Centre If you’re doing something fantastic in your job or in your classroom – please share it! We invite proposals for active and engaging presentations, hands-on workshops, teaching demonstrations, round-table discussions, or panel presentations for our next PD … Read more
If you know students who might be interested in (or well suited for) internships at home or abroad, consider advising them to meet with instructors Garry Fehr, Stephen Piper, and Cherie Enns to learn about opportunities in the Fraser Valley, East Africa, India, and Mexico. Date: Thurs, Feb 20, 2014 Time: 12–1 pm Room B211s … Read more
The draft Fall 2014 calendar is available online at www.ufv.ca/calendar/Fall-2014. Please take a few minutes to review any information in the calendar pages that you may be responsible for. Please note that the draft calendar may not yet include all program changes that have been made through the approval process since the last calendar publication. … Read more
The documentary ‘They’re not Scary: An Intergenerational Dance Project’ will be screened at the CEP campus on Thurs, Feb. 20 at 6 pm in the black box theatre (A2106). The film looks at a research project conducted by faculty members Dr. Michael Gaetz of Kinesiology and Shelley Canning of Nursing where a group of Mission … Read more
Welcome to the following new employees and/or congratulations to those who have changed jobs. Monika Vondras — Assistant to the Offices of Campus Planning and Legal Services moved from Administrative Assistant, Finance Jeremy Abbott — Program Technician, Faculty of Trades & Technology Maureen Wideman — Director, Teaching & Learning
A number of UFV email users have been recent recipients of suspicious messages. This is a reminder that if you receive a message you are not expecting and it does not look quite right, then by all means treat it with suspicion. Two recent examples involve email received supposedly from the Canada Revenue Agency and … Read more
Women’s basketball The UFV Cascades women’s basketball team (13-5) finished their weekend home-stand with a split after defeating the Brandon University Bobcats (5-13) 68-52 Saturday at the EAC. The Cascades maintain a three-way tie with UBC and the University of Victoria for first in the Pacific division of the Canada West, while the Bobcats are … Read more
Wear your craziest sweater on Thurs, Feb 6. This year UFV is encouraging everyone to layer up, so we can keep our energy use down. Come and get your photo taken from 12-12:15 pm by our intrepid sweater photographer near the Tim Horton’s in Abbotsford, or make an appointment and get your photo taken in … Read more
Tues, Feb 18 at 7 pm Abby B101 (lecture theatre) Frank Schaeffer is the son of Francis/Edith Schaeffer. The Schaeffer family have been, since 1955 (when L’Abri was founded in Switzerland) at the forefront of evangelical and reformed traditions in North America and Europe. Frank Schaeffer became more involved in leadership at L’Abri, at a … Read more
Tues, Feb. 4 3:30 Abby B121 – Note the room change. 2014 greenSPEAK Seminar Series: A presentation by Robert Krausz, PhD Environmental Policy and Planning Everything done by human societies has one thing in common: the generation of waste as an end consequence. All of nature shares this waste-producing feature – but whereas the rest … Read more
CIVL Radio 101.7 FM presents its second annual Battle of the Bands — Singer/Songwriter edition! Applications are now open to Fraser Valley singer/songwriters who will compete for industry prizes and more. Three finalists will perform at an Abbotsford Heat Game and at their own Envision Concert Series night at Mill Lake. The grand prize winner … Read more
Check out the new Faculty of Science blog at: http://blogs.ufv.ca/science Here’s a sample of what you can find on the blog: Chemistry Drop-In Sessions – Winter 2014 NEW THIS SEMESTER! CHEMISTRY DROP-IN SESSIONS First-Year (110, 113, 114) Organic (213, 214) Chemistry Classes Tuesday to Thursday in A252 and A254 Starts 2nd week of Winter 2014 … Read more
Come join us in the Scholarly Sharing Initiative this month as we discuss two projects with implications for writing and the publishing. Wed, Feb 26 1:15–2:45 pm Abby U-House Delicious lunch provided Hilary Turner, English — Very strange bedfellows: John Bunyan and Alison Bechdel as autobiographers What could a jailed 17th-century dissenting preacher possibly have … Read more