Among the growing field of experiential learning opportunities provided by the University of the Fraser Valley on and off campus, undergraduate research plays an important role.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, May 27, UFV economics students Ben Duncan, Gurpreet Jaswal, and Dayton Marks, supported by their instructor, Bosu Seo, took part in the research showcase competition organized by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. This exciting event in Vancouver was the culminating point of the \u201cAsia Connect<\/em> Student Working Groups\u201d initiative, and brought together students from several BC post-secondary institutions, including UFV, UBC, SFU and TRU.<\/p>\n Student groups were expected to complete a 20-week long research project on some of the most relevant and timely topics concerning the Asia-Pacific region, investigate the linkages between Asia and Canada, and Asia and British Columbia and examine the contribution that Canadian youth does or could make in finding solutions to existing problems. Thus, the Foundation\u2019s focus was to provide an opportunity for the students to engage in academic research as well as immerse them into developing policy recommendations, and honing skills to present to a popular audience with confidence and style.\u00a0 Students were given several general themes to choose their topics from. UFV\u2019s team focused on the subject of immigration and delivered an engaging talk on \u201cImmigration in ASEAN: A Policy Brief.\u201d It was great to see how Ben, Gurpreet, and Dayton combined the skills and knowledge they gained through their classroom experience at UFV with the competition\u2019s requirements. The judges noted originality and high research competency of the UFV team, as well as their professionalism in delivering rather complex content. This experience will certainly build not only our students\u2019 skill set, but also their resumes.<\/p>\n Through participation of our students, organized by Larissa Horne, UFV\u2019s Experiential Education Coordinator, in the Asia Connect <\/em>Student Working Groups, UFV is continuing to build an exciting and productive partnership with the APF Canada, sharing ideas and collaborating on projects in education innovation. New initiatives in experiential education will be advertised on campus as they become available.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Among the growing field of experiential learning opportunities provided by the University of the Fraser Valley on and off campus, undergraduate research plays an important role. On Saturday, May 27, UFV economics students Ben Duncan, Gurpreet Jaswal, and Dayton Marks, supported by their instructor, Bosu Seo, took part in the research showcase competition organized by … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myufv","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14391,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14354\/revisions\/14391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}