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

Natural Resources Canada’s Science & Technology Internship Program

Funding Now Available!  Natural Resources Canada’s (NRCan) – Science and Technology Internship Program (STIP)  Are you (or do you know of) an organization, business, university or community college that could benefit from funding to support an internship in the area of natural sciences? Do you know a post-secondary graduate who is looking for practical experience … 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

SUS Student Tech support referendum – Vote Jan. 25-29

Originally posted by Anne Russell on UFV Announce: http://blogs.ufv.ca/announce/2015/01/26/sus-student-tech-support-referendum/ “The Student Union Society is running a referendum on student IT tech support from Jan 25 to 29. IT Support Service is proposed by the Student Union Society as a service to provide free repair, diagnostics, and advice on computing devices for students. In addition to providing … Read more

Green Team Meeting – Jan. 27

It time for the Centre for Sustainability’s Winter 2015 Green Team meeting. On the agenda: Planning and promotion of Sweater Week (February 2-5) Planning for more carpooling Updates on our Computers need Sleep campaign and other energy saving initiatives The new garden club Results of the student survey from Fall 2014 (done by Ashleigh, reported … Read more