Category: Event

Career Pathways in the Healthcare Industry

Queen’s Faculty of Health Sciences is hosting

Career Pathways in the Healthcare Industry

Thu May 11th 2017, 3:00pm – 7:00pm
Room 132A School of Medicine Building
15 Arch Street, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7M3N6

The event is designed to provide practical insights into the types of private sector career opportunities that are available to PhD and MD graduates.

The event will also be webcast so that students who cannot physically attend the event can participate. Program details and online registration can be found here: http://healthsci.queensu.ca/cpd/career_pathways

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Scholars to Leaders Speaker Series

The Scholars to Leaders Speaker Series is an initiative of the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (SGPS) that is open to all students and scholars across all careers at Western – undergraduate, graduate, professional, and postdoctoral. The Series brings students together with university leaders who are uniquely skilled in mentoring candidates as they prepare for next stages of academic competition and global careers. The next talk:

The Random Walk to Excellence

Dr. Fred Longstaffe
Department of Earth Sciences
Western University

Wednesday, March 29, 2017
12:30 p.m.
IGAB Atrium

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Data Day at Western

Do you need Canadian statistics for your research?

Western Data Day

Social Science Centre, Room 4161
March 24, 2017
9:00 am – 3:30 pm

The goal of the event is to introduce the Western research community to new datasets at Statistics Canada.

Please RSVP to Leslie Kostal (leslie.kostal@uwo.ca) by March 15, 2017 if you would like to attend.

More information about the event, including an itinerary, can be found at: http://economics.uwo.ca/dataday_2017/index.html.

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Congratulations on Successful Graduate Student Research Day!

Congratulations to the organizing committee of the #FIMULAW Graduate Student Research Day which was held on Friday, March 3, 2017. The day was a huge success.

If you were unable to attend you can see some of the events on twitter using the hashtag #FIMULAW.

Committee Members: Shamiram Zendo, Kelly Bylica, Melanie McPhail, Darinka Tomic, Christina Catenacci, Jeff Lupker, Kaitlyn Clifford, Vicki O’Meara, Kirstyn Seanor, Matt Shelvock

Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Day (FIMS, Music, Law)

March 3, 2017
9:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Music Building, Western University (rooms 227 and 140)
#FIMULAW

This FIMULAW Research Day is an interdisciplinary event that will showcase the work of graduate students in the faculties of Music, Information and Media Studies, and Law.  It will feature three panel presentations (Contemporary Culture and Conflict, Information Ownership, and Understandings of Data), lightning talks, and poster presentations from graduate students in each of the three faculties. The day will culminate in a faculty panel discussion about the value and challenges of interdisciplinary research.  This event is free, no pre-registration required, and lunch will be provided. Drop-ins are welcome for individual panel discussions.

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