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Wellness Wednesdays: Understanding your Staff Pension Plan workshops

Understanding your Staff Pension Plan (UYSPP) is an informative 90-minute workshop designed for UBC Staff Pension Plan members of all ages. This workshop is intended to help members learn more about their Plan, pensions in general, and related retirement considerations. For members who are approaching retirement, this workshop will help explain retirement options.

Date: Thursday, September 15, 2022
Time: 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Presenter: Debbie Wilson, Director, Pensions

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Events

Sept. 13 – Training, Regulatory Enrolment Process: Veterinary Drug Submissions

The Veterinary Drugs Directorate (VDD) will be moving to a fully electronic submission environment with the Regulatory Enrolment Process (REP). Use of the REP will be mandatory as of October 1, 2022 for veterinary drug submissions that are within scope. Learn more about REP here.

To facilitate and support this transition, VDD invites you to join a training webinar to go over this process and any questions you may have. This session will also be recorded and made available to support broader access.

Click here for the Microsoft Teams link. Please add the link to your schedule on September 13th.

Sept. 30 – Intergenerational March to commemorate Orange Shirt Day

Led by UBC Applied Science and Land and Food Systems. There are no fees or registration required.

Join us for an intergenerational march to commemorate Orange Shirt Day. Members of the UBC STEM community, families and those in solidarity are welcome to participate. As this event is held on the day and classes are cancelled, we hope that the statutory holiday will allow faculty, staff, students and community members join the march and engage with the UBC Indigenous community. The march is intergenerational, and aims to be educational and supportive to the Indigenous community on campus and beyond. Educational activities will allow younger participants to connect with the original inhabitants of the land and plant a seed to continue these conversations of a difficult era in Canadian history at home.

Fri, September 30, 2022
11:00am – 2:30pm

Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre

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Deadlines

Sept. 1 – 3M National Teaching Fellowship nominations open for 2023

The 3M National Teaching Fellowship is Canada’s most prestigious recognition of excellence in educational leadership and teaching at the post-secondary level.

The nomination process is a significant undertaking, and the Learning Centre is available to support both nominating parties and nominees throughout the process. Contact Judy Chan judy.chan@ubc.ca before September 1 for one-on-one consultation on the nomination process for 2023. You should also contact Judy for nominations in the future as this is never too early to start preparing for 2024.

UBC internal deadline: October 28, 2022

For more information, please follow this link:

https://ctlt.ubc.ca/2021/10/08/3m-national-teaching-fellowship-nominations-open-for-2022/

Sept. 15 – Entrepreneurship Course For Graduate Students: Tech Entrepreneurship (APSC541/BAEN506)

Tech Entrepreneurship (APSC541/BAEN506) has been running for over 25 years and has facilitated many entrepreneurial ventures and realized numerous successful breakout companies such as DWave, Zymeworks, Barrelwise and Recon Instruments – just to name a few. This course pairs graduate business and APSC/STEM students to provide an experience-based introduction into the lean start-up process. It is a real-life simulation of the process that founders go through when starting a high-tech company. Students will be faced with the key issues involved in evaluating market opportunities, building a prototype, designing profitable business models, producing a solid business plan, raising capital, addressing legal considerations and developing a winning team. Students will gain the skills and tools to creatively commercialize high-tech research into profitable businesses. Teams will be expected to develop credible pitches that will be made to industry professionals. Some of these student companies go on to participate in e@UBC, the Hatch and Creative Destruction Lab.

The course has an application process for admission as it is very competitive with an early admission application deadline of September 15 and a final application deadline of November 6. Further details regarding the course are available at http://blogs.ubc.ca/baen506apsc541techentrepreneurship/