Hiring at VARC – Bird Banding Technician

The Vancouver Avian Research Centre (VARC) is seeking an experienced part-time student to help with bird banding operations at Colony Farm Regional Park in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Primary duties will be to assist with all aspects of the daily banding operations.  This is an excellent opportunity to take your avian knowledge, ageing/sexing and banding skills  … Read more

greenSPEAK Seminar – Feb. 19

Centre for Sustainability greenSPEAK Seminar Series in conjunction with the Department of Geography and the Environment Discovery Series present: Jorge Macias’ presentation on Exotic Invaders and forest resources of the world: a chemical ecology perspective Jorge has accrued more than 30 years in the field of forest health, forest pest management and chemical ecology, which has taken … Read more

High School Math Challengers Arrive

Grade 8 and 9 students descend to UFV for the Math Challengers Fraser Valley Regionals! Math Challengers is an inter-school math competition in which students in grades 8 and 9 compete in teams of four or five. Regional competitions are held across BC each year in February, with the top teams from each regional tournament … Read more

Classroom Math Visits in Hope

A group of nine volunteers spent all of February 10 in Hope, sharing math/logic puzzles with the 15 K-6 classes at Coquihalla Elementary.  They also spent two hours on campus on Family Day (math is your family, too?), taking part in a workshop on the puzzles and effective methods of presenting them to a class.  … Read more

Talk Feb. 19 – Plenty of Fish = Plenty of data

LDA to Find User Archetypes for Search and Matching: A Talk by Thomas Levi, Senior Data Scientist at PlentyOfFish.com Thomas Levi started out with a doctorate in Theoretical Physics and String Theory from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. His post-doctoral studies in cosmology and string theory, where he wrote 19 papers garnering 700+ citations, took … Read more

Math Challengers BC Fraser Valley Regional Competition – Feb. 12

Math Challengers is an inter-school math competition in which students in grades 8 and 9 compete in teams of four or five. Regional competitions are held across BC each year in February, with the top teams from each regional tournament moving on to compete at the annual Provincial comptition in March or April. The Fraser … Read more

Info Session: London International Youth Science Forum

UFV will send one Science student to London, UK summer 2015 (all expenses paid) to attend the annual London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF) from July 22 to August 5, 2015. LIYSF information can be found at liysf.org.uk/liysf-2015. Information Session: January 29 at 1 pm in C1423. Guest speaker Etienne Dryer, last year’s representative for UFV … Read more

Volunteer Opportunity to Learn Augmented Reality Technology

The Reach Museum and Gallery is creating an extremely exciting exhibition starting in March 2015. The exhibition will include an augmented reality experience for visitors and ITcredible is about to start the process of setting up the technology. This project requires 2-3 students to join on a volunteer basis. The focus will be on the technology involved in augmented reality, … Read more

New York and Washington DC Field School

Interested in exploring New York and Washington DC with the Biology Department?  We are offering a Field School this Spring and have extended the deadline for applications. Field School Dates – April 24-May 8, 2015 Credits – 8 or 9 (your choice) Trip Costs: $1,000 non-refundable tour deposit due January 23, 2015 $1,550 non-refundable final … Read more