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Issue 85, Apr. 9, 2015.
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Please share this information with faculty and graduate students.
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Highlights for this issue
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• NEW — Spirit of Brock Application Extension: Deadline has been extended to Friday, April 10, 4:30 p.m. Click here for more information.
• NEW — GSA 2015-16 Executive: The following is the 2015-16 executive team, positions effective May 1:
President - Aidan Smyth
Vice President Student Affairs - Amanda Longo
Vice President Finance - Lee Belding
Vice President Communications - Kirsten Bott
Vice President International - Erin Higgs
Vice President Equity & External Affairs - Jacqueline Beres.
Senator - Bryan Giordano
Senator - Julia Polyck-O'Neill
Board of Trustees Representative - Peter Stoyanov
• SHIFT Graduate Student Conference: Professional skills conference for graduate students to assist with making ‘the SHIFT’ from ‘learning to earning’: uncover, discover, explore
and articulate your well-developed higher order skills. Making sense of your graduate level skills and understand how these skills transfer to other areas of work.
Event Date: Thursday, April 30, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: Pond Inlet
The e-Bulletin is also posted online.
Previous issues of e-Bulletin are posted online.
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TAKE NOTE
Deadlines or events that will occur between this issue and the first week of the next issue are highlighted for your immediate attention.
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Scholarships/Awards/Grants
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• The Mitacs Accelerate Program provides funding for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to apply their specialized expertise to business-related research challenges. Partners can be either for-profit businesses or not-for-profit organizations. For more information contact Louisa Ho, Commercialization Research Officer at lho@brocku.ca. Click here for more details.
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research IHSRP Travel Awards: IHSPR will provide travel awards in 2014-2015 for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and new investigators to attend and present their research at meetings, conferences (including international conferences) and/or symposia that align with the Institute's mandate and advance their professional development and/or knowledge translation initiatives in health services and policy
research.
See more information online.
• NEW — Dr. Karl C. Ivarson Scholarship: The scholarship provides financial support to a student(s) entering the second or subsequent year of graduate studies in soil science (in the areas of agriculture, environment, geology, agro-ecology or other related disciplines) at a Canadian university. Candidates must hold Canadian Citizenship or Permanent Residence status in Canada and be enrolled in their graduate program for at least one semester beyond the application deadline. One scholarship of $1,850 will be offered in 2015.
2015 Application
Guidelines and Application Form can be found online at www.aicfoundation.ca/ivarson-soils/.
Deadline for application: Wednesday, April 22
• NEW — African Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarship Program: The ALT Scholarship Program commemorates the late Nelson Mandela’s commitment to social justice and equity by offering young African women and men the opportunity to study in a Master’s degree program in Canada in public administration, public policy or public finance. The program has two components: academic training and professional development and
leadership.
The 2015 Competition, for the September 2015 academic year, is now open to candidates from South Africa and Senegal.
Deadline to apply: Sunday, April 26
Find more details online.
• NEW — Paul Stothart Memorial Scholarship in Mineral Economics: To qualify for the scholarship, candidates must be studying either a Bachelor of Masters of Economics/Commerce, or a Master of Business Administration. Students must also demonstrate an interest in mineral economics supported by current or intended course work. Value: $3,500
Deadline: Friday, May 15 (awarded for the 2015-2016 school year).
Application requirements and process are posted online here.
• Student international funding opportunities: Visit Brock International for a listing of scholarship and awards programs
• Brock Library Open Access Publishing Fund: Open to Brock faculty, graduate students and postdocs. The purpose of this grant is to assist researchers in disseminating their research broadly via an Open Access (OA) journal. A minimum of four awards will be granted, to a maximum of $2,500 each [Total funds = $10,000]. This Grant is intended to support researchers with limited or no funding. If an alternate funding source is available that permits payment of submission fees (e.g. a research grant), that source must be used before applying
to the OA Publishing Fund.
For more information contact: Barbara McDonald, Ext. 3949
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Vitae: Essential Skills for Graduate Students
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Academic and professional development program for graduate students provided in partnership with nine campus units.
Vitae Essential Research Communication Skills Series for Graduate Students:
Communication skills are a constellation of skill sets most valued by employers. We've designed a series of workshops for you to develop and rehearse specific communication skills that extend and complement your rich academic skills. Learn more about the series and certification.
• SHIFT Graduate Student Conference: Professional skills conference for graduate students to assist with making ‘the SHIFT’ from ‘learning to earning’: uncover, discover, explore and articulate your well-developed higher order skills. Making sense of your graduate level skills and understand how these skills transfer to other areas of work.
Event Date: Thursday, April 30, 9 a.m. to 4
p.m.
Location: Pond Inlet
Campus Partners Presents:
• NEW – Faculty and Graduate Spring Symposium: What’s Really Going on? Tuesday, April 14, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. TH 253 and Classrooms A & B. Learn about Wiley-Blackwell and the future of library collections in a volatile economy; research & instruction partnerships between faculty and the library; open access and alternative modes of publishing; new media, new skills, and hidden gems. Register here.
• REMINDER — Almetrics: A Better Way to Assess YOUR Impact! Wednesday, Apr. 15, 4 to 6 p.m. Cairns 207: Academic publishing is a brave new world these days as traditional subscription journals and print books are being transformed by new technologies and online access. Learn strategies on how to extend your publishing
reach and the tools for measuring the impact. Explore techniques to optimize your scholarly impact. During this session you will activate an ORCID account and create an Impact Story Profile.
Facilitator: Ian Gibson, Collections Librarian.
For more details and to register for this event, please visit the vitae
website.
• NEW - 6th Annual Graduate Student
Research Conference, Tuesday, Apr. 28 to Thursday Apr. 30 at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. This year's theme? Looking back to research the future and look at the lessons we can learn from past research to build the future of research in our universities and industries. This conference is open to all graduate students from all universities. If you have colleagues or friends who would be interested in participating in the conference, please spread the word! This is a great opportunity to present your work to the wider research community.
Abstract are due by April 20th please submit abstracts through the UOIT website.
Early bird registration ends April 15th, so be sure to register early to take advantage of reduced conference rates.
• NEW — Faculty Institute on Community-Engaged Learning: Aligning Intention and Action in Community-Engaged Learning: The Centre for Community Partnerships invites proposals for research papers to be presented at the 2015 Faculty Institute on Community-Engaged Learning at the University of Toronto. Call for 20 minute papers on any aspect of community-engaged teaching and learning, which may include research on community-engaged courses (qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods or other) or theoretical or conceptual papers related to the field of service-learning or community-engaged learning. Theme: “Aligning Intention and Action in Community-Engaged Learning” are particularly encouraged.
(see vitae website for more details – link to posting)
Event date:
Wednesday, May 13, 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
For more information, please visit the Centre for Community Partnerships website.
• Calling all Writers! We are recruiting graduate level students (Masters/PhD) for volunteer writers: contributing creative and stimulating blog content. Writers will have some editorial range yet provide a voice for the graduate student experience. Writers must submit sample of writing. For more details, please contact kperry@brocku.ca
Promote your workshops to graduate students with us: If you are hosting a workshop or event related to graduate student professional development that may interest graduate students from within or outside of your faculty, please send a request to have your event posted on the Vitae calendar to kperry@brocku.ca. The number of participants can be monitored and capped through our online registry. Specific learning outcomes and the competencies that align with your workshop or
information session can also be tracked.
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Please continue to visit our website for professional development programs and workshops.
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Conferences and Events
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• SHOWCASING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH: 10th Annual Mapping the New Knowledges Conference, Thursday, April 9, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Plaza Building and Cairns Family Health and Bioscience Research Complex
The Brock community is invited to attend the annual showcase of graduate student research. Approximately 120 Brock graduate students will be participating in the full-day conference that will feature oral and poster presentations, the finals of the 3MT® contest, the presentation of the Graduate Mentorship Awards and the new Marilyn Rose Graduate Leadership Award, and GSA social. A program for the day will be posted in March.
• NEW — MA Geography Speaker Series: Dr. Mary J. Thornbush
Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography, Brock University, Friday April 10, 2 to 4 p.m., MC C405
(light refreshments will be served). All are welcome! Click here for more information.
• NEW — Brock University’s Centre for Lifespan Development Research’s Speaker Series: Dr. Charles Tator presents “Concussions - What are they and what can I do?” May 4, 7 to 9 p.m., Welch Hall Room 324. This is event is free and open to the public, but RSVP is required as space is
limited. Click here to RSVP for this event.
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GSA
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• NEW — GSA Spring Social: Join us at Isaac's Bar & Grill on Thursday, April 9, 5 to 7 p.m., following the Mapping the New Knowledges Graduate Conference. All graduate students welcome.
If office is closed, please put your application under the office door.
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Upcoming Thesis Defences
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Check Faculty websites for notices of upcoming thesis defences.
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• NEW — Rahul Kumar, PhD student in Educational Studies, will present his thesis defence on Thursday, April 16, 10 a.m. in WH 147 (Welch Hall). Title: “University Faculty Members’ Understanding of Their Role: Identity, power, and silence”
• NEW — Megan Lynch, MEd student, will present her thesis defence on Friday, April 17, 10 a.m., WH 147. Title: "Minimal Contact Intervention for Tobacco Dependence"
• NEW — Paul Adachi, PhD student in Psychology, will present his thesis defence on Monday, April 27, at 1 p.m. in WH 147. Title: “Demolishing the Competition: The association between competitive video game play and aggression among adolescents and young adults”
• Daniele Chirico, PhD
student in Applied Health Sciences, will present his thesis defence on Monday, April 27, 1 p.m., WC 203. Title: “Autonomic cardiovascular control in children and adolescents”
• NEW — Eleftherios (Terry) Soleas, MEd student, will present his thesis defence on Monday, June 15, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., WH147. Title: "New Teacher Perceptions of Inclusive Pedagogies: Designing new futures for the changing classroom"
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