Science Social DAY 5 – UFV Contacts & Other Info

Welcome to our final day of our Science Welcome Week! We would like to announce the winners of Thursday’s draw … drum roll please … https://youtu.be/RodQMIIGvZc Annabelle Czihaly Tessa Lewis If you haven’t won this week yet, you still have today to enter for our final draws. *See below for full details. Each year we … Read more

Science Social DAY 4 – Featuring UFV’s Women in Engineering, Science, and Technology & the Wildlife Protection Club

Welcome to DAY 4 of our Science Welcome Week! We would like to announce the winners of Tuesday’s draw … drum roll please … https://youtu.be/g6TPbGNphq0 Chandanee Dancey Hailey Flikkema Remember, if you haven’t won yet this week, you can still enter tomorrow’s draw. *See below for full details. Now without further ado, we would like … Read more

Science Social DAY 3 – Featuring UFV’s Mathematics Student Association, Physics Student Association and Computing Student Association

Welcome to DAY 3 of our Science Welcome Week! We would like to announce the winners of Tuesday’s draw … drum roll please … https://youtu.be/BWWj_2yzkdA Melanie Stevens-Franko Stefan Halas Remember, if you didn’t win, you can continue to enter each day this week. *See below for full details. Now without further ado, we would like … Read more

Science Social DAY 2 – Featuring Pre-Medical Student Association and the UFV Health & Medicine Club

Welcome to DAY 2 of our Science Welcome Week! We would like to announce the winners of Monday’s draw … drum roll please … https://youtu.be/KuCdYunicMQ Sasha Tuttle Heather Kelly They’ve each won a $100 Gift Card to the UFV Bookstore! Congratulations!  Remember, if you didn’t win, you can continue to enter each day this week. … Read more

Science Social DAY 1: Featuring UFV’s Biology and Chemistry Student Association & the School of Land Use and Environmental Change Student Association

Welcome to DAY 1 of our Science Social Event! Don’t forget to enter our daily draws this week by answering one of the questions below in the comment section. *See below for full details. Now, go grab a beverage and a snack and let’s get this party started! We would like to introduce our first … Read more

Let’s Talk Science Student Volunteers needed – Zoom info session SEPT 25

Meet Keara Parsons, UFV’s new Let’s Talk Science (LTS) Coordinator. LTS is a nationally-coordinated and funded program that brings together undergraduate student volunteers and K-12 students in our communities to share their interests in STEM https://letstalkscience.ca/. Keara is now recruiting student volunteers for this academic year. If you’re curious to know more, there will be … Read more

Calling all UFV Science Students! Virtual Science Welcome Week OCT 5-9

Kick start your year at our 13th Annual Science Social … ly distant event 2020 style! Each year the Faculty of Science has invited all new and returning science students to come out for an evening of fun to visit with classmates, science faculty and staff while getting information on the science related student groups … Read more

Call for student representatives on Science Faculty Council 2020/2021 – Nominations close SEPT 18!

The Faculty of Science is looking for 2 Student Representatives to sit on our Science Faculty Council. These positions are for a ONE YEAR term. The Mandate of the Science Faculty Council (SFC) shall: serve as the forum for sharing information and the discussion of academic matters receive recommendations related to academic programs, including but … Read more

Welcome to our new Faculty of Science tenure track hires! Drs. Justin Lee and Mariano Mapili

The Faculty of Science would like to welcome our new tenure track hires, Dr. Justin Lee and Dr. Mariano Mapili. Although their faces are very familiar within our faculty they bring with them many years of expertise! Dr. Justin Lee has been a long term Sessional and LTA in the Department of Biology at UFV … Read more

Higher Ed Teaching Strategies – establishing a positive connection with online teaching

Faculty Focus is an online newsletter and website that is dedicated to higher education and instructors like you! They publish articles on effective teaching strategies for online and university and college classrooms. Their latest article, A Four-Step Plan: The First Day of Class on Zoom, written by Crystal Wong, EdD shares some great insights that … Read more