Financial Aid & Awards Tips for February

Financial Aid and Awards Tips for February Tip #1: Scholarship time is coming. Start researching your scholarship options now because there is often a fair amount of preparation involved in getting your applications ready for submission. Tip #2: Scholarship and Leadership applications (online format) will be available March 15 through myUFV. Tip #3: If you … Read more

Scholarly Sharing Initiative — Feb 17

Researchers from the Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies (Satwinder Bains, Sharanjit Sandhra, Rajnish Dhawan, and Garry Fehr) will involve participants in learning about several Canada-India projects the centre has be collaborating on. The projects cover a wide range of topics including diaspora, rural economic development, migration, history and performance. Wed, Feb 17 1:15–2:45 pm Abby U-House … Read more

Study Skills Workshop Series for Trades students

This series of 6 lunch-and-learn style sessions will provide students with tools to: 1. manage time and energy efficiently (Feb. 24) 2. improve attention and classroom learning (Mar. 2) 3. study effectively and enhance memory (Mar. 9) 4. stay motivated and beat procrastination (Mar. 16) 5. prepare for exams and manage test anxiety (Mar. 23) … Read more

School of Business Research Development program inspires and informs

The School of Business Research Development program began the New Year with a presentation from one of its newest faculty members. Dr. Sha Liao presented her work titled “leveraging suppliers to calibrate product specifications.” The second hour, Brad Whittaker from the research office shared information about internal/external funding opportunities and the role of the research … Read more

New employee profile — Jelena Brcic

One of UFV’s newest faculty members, Dr. Jelena Brcic, was mentioned in Psychology Today blog recently for her research on the coping strategies of astronauts. She and her co-authors of the new study (entitled, ‘Coping strategies during and after spaceflight: Data from retired cosmonauts’), argue that negative psychological reactions in space are less publicized than … Read more

2016 grads can book their photo session now!

Please share with your studens: 2016 grads can book their photo session now! Professional photographers from Artona Group, the official graduation photographer for UFV, will be on the Abbotsford and Chilliwack CEP campus in March for graduate portrait sessions ($15 sitting fee). March 1–14 — Abbotsford campus Artona Mobile Studio — Mobile Studio located in … Read more

UFV Baker House student staff positions NOW open for Summer & Fall/Winter 2016/17!

UFV Baker house is now recruiting dedicated Students for Student Staff Positions in Summer & Fall/Winter of 2016/17! We are looking for… For Summer: up to three Resident Assistants (RA) & up to three Front Desk Assistants (FDA) For Academic 2016/17: One Senior Front Desk Assistant (Senior FDA), up to seven Resident Assistants (RA), and … Read more

That’s 500! Coach T honored for milestone

It’s not often you find two UFV presidents (current and former) at the same event, but when your very successful basketball coach hits a career milestone, it’s an occasion. Women’s basketball coach Al Tuchsherer was honored for 500 games on Saturday night. Pictured with Al are President Mark Evered, Al’s wife Denise (also a UFV … Read more

Three new employee recognition awards — nominations due Feb 29

UFV RECOGNITION AWARDS The UFV Board of Governors is launching three new awards to recognize and celebrate UFV staff and faculty excellence in service, leadership, and teamwork that supports the values, mission, and goals of UFV. Nominations are now open for the UFV Staff Excellence Award, the UFV Inspirational Leadership Award and the UFV Teamwork … Read more

McQuarrie interviewed re Supreme Court announcement re teachers’ bargaining rights

Business professor Fiona McQuarrie was busy fielding media interviews on the  Supreme Court’s announcement that it has agreed to hear a case related to the provincial government’s use of legislation to change teachers’ bargaining rights in 2002. McQuarrie spoke on this issue to CBC Radio, Canadian Press, The Globe and Mail, and The Vancouver Sun. … Read more

Business students looking for visitors to Abbotsford for focus group

Tourism Abbotsford has been selected by UFV Business students for their winter semester class research project. The project topic is: to find out what types of visitor experiences would help develop the destination brand and overall experience. The students will be conducting focus groups to better understand the purpose of visits to the community, duration … Read more