News and Events
2nd Annual Science Laboratory and Faculty Research Open House Thursday, February 27, 2014 4:30 – 7:30 pm. This year the event will take place on the CEP campus. [hr] The profile of research in science at UFV is diverse, dynamic–and growing! This peer-reviewed and practically applicable community research is taking place in multiple faculties Science, … Read more
Taken from UFV Today, January 16 2014. Original post by Darren McDonald. Students at UFV ‘make’ many things, from dresses to buildings to gourmet concoctions, in programs such as fashion design, carpentry, and culinary arts. But students who enroll in the co-operative education option, including biology major Brandon Wood, also make money and important career … Read more
Centre for Sustainability 2014 greenSPEAK Seminar Series: Tuesday, 28th JAN., at 3:30 B101, Abby Campus (B Bldg.) Open to the public (free) Kerry Coast: Journalist, dramatist, activist Kerry Coast is a journalist, dramatist and activist. She has just published her first book, a researched account of British Columbia’s history – The Colonial Present. Coast has attended the UN … Read more
This year it’s TRU hosts the Undergrad Conference, so we’re inviting TWU, UBCO and UFV students to present posters at our local event. There are no external participants from other faculties – just Science. March 27 – 28, 2014 – Conference January 31 – Applications Due Application Form is now available on the conference website, … Read more
Do you have colleagues who are making an academic impact at UFV through innovative research? Nominate them for UFV’s annual Research Excellence Award! Deadline for nominations is Feb 7, 2014. 2013 Recipient – Noham Weinberg 2012 Recipient – Olav Lian
List of Presenters Jim Daems – English Darrell Fox – Social Work and Human Services Sharon Gillies – Biology Aleksandra Idzior – Visual Arts/History Marcella LaFever – Communications Judy Larsen – UUP Seonaigh MacPherson – Adult Education Linda Pardy – Communications Prabhjot Parmar – English/Social, Cultural, and Media Studies Peter Raabe – Philosophy Michelle Riedlinger- … Read more
Clayoquot/Tofino Field School May 28 – June 9, 2014 BIO 421E/421HH – 8 credits ** Please contact Allan.Arndt@ufv.ca for more info. **
Science will be well represented at the New Student Orientation! Come down and visit us on Friday, January 3, 2014 in the gym on the Abbotsford Campus. Students register here… For more information, visit the New Student Orientation webpages
Science Outreach – Winter 2014 For science students and students interested in teaching. Contact Christine.Dalton@ufv.ca ————————————————————- The Faculty of Science is running science outreach programs in two locations this winter semester. Super Science Club is an after-school program for elementary students that UFV offers in collaboration with Science World. The goal of this program is to … Read more
Article posted on UFV Today, Dec 12, 2013 (News release from the Province of British Columbia) British Columbia’s newest centre of excellence is dedicated to agriculture, with construction progressing at the University of the Fraser Valley on a brand-new barn and greenhouses after an investment of $1 million by government. “We are planting the seeds … Read more