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Aaron Pauls closed the book on his sparkling university golf career on Saturday, helping Team Canada to a historic finish at the Summer Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea. The Canadian men’s golf squad, featuring Pauls and helmed by his longtimeUFV coach Chris Bertram, battled their way to sixth place – the best-ever finish for the … Read more
To improve service security and performance, IT Services will be working on Banner system upgrade during the regular maintenance window: Sun, August 2 7-11 am Banner Self-Service will be unavailable during that time. MyUFV, My UFV Course Tools, and Student Files will experience service interruptions. Online Learning, and Student and Employee email will be available. … Read more
The UFV Library is very excited to report that after three years of working towards establishing an institutional repository (IR) at UFV, we will launch our IR in Fall 2015. But we need help naming it! Our Institutional Repository Libguide provides information on what an IR is and offers some guidelines for name suggestions. Please … Read more
UFV Library is putting together a cookbook to celebrate the newest addition to the library’s special collections: The Newman Western Canadian Community Cookbook Collection. This special collection of community cookbooks began in the Fall of 2014 at the suggestion of Dr. Lenore Newman, UFV’s Canada Research Chair in Food Security and the Environment. Cookbooks are … Read more
Why Attend? This symposium gives educators in BC’s post-secondary institutions a venue to share their teaching and learning questions, gain insights and report on progress about ongoing investigations about their practice, as well as obtain feedback with a goal to network and connect educators across institutions and disciplines. Scholarly inquiry involves educators investigating a question … Read more
At its June 19, 2015 meeting, the Board of Governors approved the following policies, policy direction, and bylaw: BRP 205.01 — Board Policy on Tuition and Other Fees BRP 230.01 — Board Policy on the Student Union Society BPD 230 — Board of Governors Policy Direction on Student Support, Student Co-Curricular Learning, and Student Societies … Read more
UFV’s Faculty of Science is sending science student Kevin Kobes to London for the highly revered London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF), where he will meet up with over 400 students from 60 participating countries. Kevin will be blogging this experience along the way at blogs.ufv.ca/science/category/trips/science-in-london/ The scope of LIYSF extends further than broadening scientific … Read more
Facilities Management has Tyco Integrated Fire & Security scheduled to perform annual fire alarm testing. Fire alarm testing will occur at the Abbotsford campus from July 20–31. Disruptions at all buildings should be minimal, with bell ringing reserved for early morning or late evening so as not to disturb regular classes and operations. If there … Read more
Facilities Management has Tyco Integrated Fire & Security scheduled to perform annual fire alarm testing at the Chilliwack campuses. Between July 6–14, Tyco will be working at Chilliwack North Building D, UFV Five Corners Building P, and Canada Education Park Buildings A-H-T-W. Disruption to services will be scheduled early morning or late afternoon so as … Read more
The Faculty of Science’s annual Science Rocks summer camps run weekly through Aug 14 . Designed especially for young people in Grades 4, 5, and 6 (campers going into Grade 4 or 7 are also eligible), these camps are great fun and an awesome learning opportunity for campers. Three very enthusiastic UFV science students organize … Read more
An assignment for a UFV Adult Education course led to a spot in the Coquitlam Sports Hall of Fame for UFV media and communications manager Anne Russell. Russell, whose day job is to tell stories about UFV as part of the University Relations team, took the digital storytelling course offered by UFV’s Adult Ed degree … Read more
Looking for activities to keep your kids busy this summer? Check out summer day-camps at UFV! We offer Think Fun, Science Rocks, and Cascade Summer Sports camps. More information is available here. Science Rocks offers 10% discounts for children of employees and 25% discounts for children of students.
Several retiring UFV professors received professor emeritus status and were recognized at the recent Convocation ceremonies. They are: Trudy Archie, (Upgrading and University Preparation), Wendy Burton (Communication), Virginia Cooke (English), Allan McNeill (English), John Carroll (English), Ian Fenwick (Theatre), Lynne Wells (Nursing), Rosie Friesen (Certified Dental Assisting), and Susan Milner (Mathematics and Statistics).
Two people with strong connections to UFV were among the three 2015 recipients of the Order of Abbotsford: Satwinder Bains is the Director of the Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies George W. Peary, former mayor of Abbotsford and long-time principal in School District 34, is a sessional instructor in the School of Business who has taught … Read more
Congratulations to Wendy Gracey (assistant to the dean, Faculty of Science) and Charlene Smadello (departmental assistant, School of Health Sciences), both of whom received their Bachelor of General Studies at UFV’s Convocation ceremonies, and to Michelle Elliott (switchboard operator), who earned her Library and Information Technology diploma. If you graduated this spring (from UFV or … Read more