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What's happening at Graduate Studies?
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition challenges graduate students to present their thesis and its significance in just three minutes and one slide.
The President's Dream Colloquium brings leading thinkers to SFU and provides an annual forum for intensive interdisciplinary exchange amongst faculty and students.
The Your Career Compass workshop series helps graduate students navigate their career options inside or outside of academia.
1:1 Graduate Student Career Coaching Sessions
Book a 1:1 career coaching session to support your career exploration, work search, portfolio development, or future education plans.
Amrit Mundy, Career Education Specialist, Career and Volunteer Services and fellow PhD graduate student will help you work on your future.
Date/Time
Spring Term: Mondays & Fridays
Location
In-person & online
More Events for Grad Students
On Campus
- Multilingual and International TAs: Facilitating Tricky Situations in your Tutorial | Tuesday, March 19 | 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. PDT | Virtual
- SFU ASA Tax Information for International Students | Monday, Mar 25 | 1:30 - 3:30 pm | Zoom Workshop for file taxes, free ways of doing taxes, benefits and credits that you may be eligible for and more.
- Smart & Sustainable Cities: What is the way forward? | Program dates: April 4, 9:30am - 1pm | In-person session hosted by SFU Centre for Dialogue (includes networking lunch) | SFU’s Leanne Sawatzky, Executive Director (Interim) for Renewable Cities, will be one of the panel speakers. | Both In-person and Online
- Transformation to Smart Cities: Swiss Guise and Use Cases | Program dates: April 5, 12pm - 1pm | Virtual session hosted by SFU’s Pacific Water Research Centre (PWRC)
- TA Development: Supporting EAL Writers in Writing Intensive Courses | Tuesday, April 9 | 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. PDT | Virtual
- Swiss-Canada Dialogue on Decarbonization | Program dates: April 16, 10am - 11:30am | Virtual session on Clean Energy solutions moderated by SFU’s Laura Sloboda (Acting Director, Hydrogen Hub)
Off Campus
- Call for applications for the Global Research Immersion Program for Young Scientists (GripS) | Apply by: Mar 17, 11:59 p.m. (GMT+8) | Program dates: June to August (4 - 8 weeks) | to Join 4 Top Chinese Universities in Yangtze River Delta | Scholarships will be offered only to students of non-Chinese nationality
- ComSciCon 2024 Flagship Workshop - Boston, MA | Apply by: Mar 22, 11:59 pm (EDT) | Program dates: July 24 - 27 | Application, Registration and Attendance are free for accepted applicants | Location: Emerson College in Boston, MA
- Indigenous Classical Music Residency – Summer 2024 | Apply by: April 24 | Program dates: August 6 - 24
This residency brings together Indigenous musicians working with the Classical genre to cultivate relationships, personal craft and build strong networks.
- Indigenous Arts: Hide Tanning and Parfleche Residency | Apply by: June 26 | Program dates: September 30 - October 18
This three-week visual arts residency allows participants to learn more about how scrape a hide and work with parfleche with the support of faculty, elders and knowledge keepers.
Ongoing
- Indigenous Student Support; Jennifer Reandy is available for counselling support for Indigenous students from Tuesday to Friday.
- Thriving in your role as a TA/TM Online Course: gain resilience skills, identify boundaries in your role as a TA/TM helping students, and overview conditions for well-being in learning environments
- Instructional Skills Workshops (Various dates and deadlines for spring and summer)
- SFU Research Ethics Board runs weekly remote help sessions
- The Mentor Meet Program, available to entrepreneurs in the SFU Community, allows you to connect with mentors at all three SFU Campuses.
- Understanding and Coping with Anxiety and Depression Health & Counselling has a recorded/asynchronous version of their seminar about anxiety and depression. Download and print out the presentation slides and resources.