Advising Units merging and relocating to new Student Union Building

The Science Advice Centre, Arts Advice Centre and Student Services Advising (Abbotsford location) will be relocating to the 3rd floor of the new Student Union Building on May 19th and 20th and will reopen on May 21st. Check back on May 21st for launch of the new Advising Centre website at www.ufv.ca/advising For more information, … Read more

UFV Hosts 18th Annual BC Secondary School Math Contest

Preliminary Round: Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2015 Final Round: Date: Friday, May 1, 2015 Location: UFV Chilliwack campus at CEP – 45190 Caen Ave. Divisions: Junior (up to grade 10) Senior (up to grade 12) Final Round 2015 includes:  T-Shirts with Contest Puzzle Raffle Prizes “Recreational Math”  – Enrichment Activities UFV Scholarship Prizes $150 – … Read more

Science Research Open House

Don’t forget about the 3rd annual Science Research Open House! April 14th, 5:00 pm, B121. This open house will feature the work of our Science Students and include presentations of student work in the form of posters, hands-on displays, oral presentations, etc. The event will begin with a preview tour of the new Student Union … Read more

Upcoming Orientations for New Students

Upcoming Orientations for New Students Learn how to plan your Fall semester, register for courses, and much more. Abbotsford May 28 6:00-7:30 pm Room B132 June 8 6:00-7:30 pm Room B132 Chilliwack June 3 6:00-7:30 pm Room A2213 RSVP Required to science.advice@ufv.ca Parents can register for Supporter Organizations organized through Student Life. Register at ufv.ca/studentlife. … Read more

3rd Annual Science Open House – Call for Volunteers

3rd Annual Science Open House As you may or may not be aware, we are organizing the 3rd annual Science Open House, which will be open to our community industry partners as well as to our UFV community at large. Event details: April 14th, 2015 5  pm B121 and select Science labs This open house … Read more

Publishing Your Article Workshop – Apr. 14

Publishing Your Article: Research and Graduate Studies workshop for faculty and students interested in publishing Tues Apr 14 10am-12pm Abbotsford Campus, room A225 Are you unsure what to do with the results of your research project? Do you have a completed literature review, discourse analysis, scientific experiment, or theoretical analysis that you would like published? Do … Read more

Hockey Game Open to All Students, Staff, and Faculty – Mar. 20

Release some stress and beat your profs during a casual ice hockey game! Friday, March 20th 4:00-5:15 at Matsqui Recreation Centre (3106 Clearbrook Road, Abbotsford). Co-ed and non-contact. Students, Staff, and Faculty welcome! Please contact Allan Arndt (allan.arndt@ufv.ca) if you would like to join the fun!

Analysis of Randomized Algorithms – Talk on Mar. 19

Analysis of Randomized Algorithms: A talk by Petra Berenbrink, Associate Professor of Computing Science at SFU Thursday, March 19 2:30 – 4:00 pm A310 on the Abbotsford UFV campus Dr. Petra Berenbrink will present several randomized graph-based algorithms. The first algorithm is a random walk process on a graph. Here we analyse the so-called cover time … Read more

Job Opportunity – Summer Camp Facilitators

We are looking for Science Rocks! Summer Camp Facilitators Applications now closed. Science Rocks! is a series of summer day camps for students in grades 4, 5 and 6. The camps are held for four weeks at the UFV Abbotsford campus and two more weeks at CEP in Chilliwack. Position dates: Monday – Friday, June 29th to … Read more

Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre (BMSC) Coming to UFV

The Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre (BMSC) is a shared campus of the Universities of Victoria, British Columbia, Alberta, Calgary, and Simon Fraser University featuring a 3000 square metre laboratory that can support research in almost any field. BMSC has courses available to students from Biology, Geography, Environmental Studies, Archaeology/Anthropology, First Nations Studies, and Stats. There … Read more