October 2024: Issue 45

News

2024 Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award Recipients

Congratulations to Delasi Essien, awarded "Nursing Champion" through Canada's Top 25 Immigrants for the 2024 year.

As a doctoral student at the University of Regina, Essien further found her niche in academia, expanding the dialogue around equity, diversity and inclusion, through Indigenization and decolonization within the nursing profession.

For more information, you can watch the video here or read the article here.

Research Week Events

Graduate Student & Research Week

November 4-8

Participate in an exciting lineup of events:



Monday, Nov 4, 12-1:15pm: PhD Students - Learn how to Become a Post Doc Panel and Free Lunch. Register Here.

Tuesday, Nov 5, 6-8pm in ED228 : Restoring Indigenous re-Search Methodologies with keynote Dr. Kathy Absolon, Anishinaabe kwe and respected knowledge carrier from Flying Post First Nation and Associate Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University. Register Here.

Wednesday, Nov 6, 1-5pm, RI Theatre: Student Research Showcase presentations and posters. Come check out the presentations and posters.

Thursday, Nov 7: Reverse Career Fair - find out how to participate.

Friday, Nov 8, 12-1:30 pm at Lazy Owl: Pizza and Bingo Networking, Register Here.

Career Readiness

Reverse Career Fair - Nov. 7

Unlock your chance to network with CEOs and explore job opportunities at the Reverse Career Fair! Space is limited.

To qualify: participate in these lunch-hour online graduate student workshops from 12:00-1:15pm:

Oct 1: Job Searching - Register here!

Oct 2: Customizing Resumes- Register here!

Oct 8: Interview Preparation - Register here!

Oct 9: Networking Etiquette- Register here!

Graduate Workshops

BEYOND Training

You’re investing time and money in earning your degree. Now, learn how to find a job where you’re paid for your education and training. Join GATE in these webinars:

• Oct 9: What employers actually value about your degree. Register here!
• Oct 23: Submitting Resumes Online but not Hearing Back? Register here!

Events

October 8 from 10:00 - 11:00 am Coffee with the Dean in CK 226. Join us for coffee and snacks, meet the FGSR Dean and Associate Deans, and chat about surviving and thriving in grad school.

October 9 from 4:00-6:00pm Grad Night at the Owl where all graduate students are welcome to join us for informal socializing. Snacks are on us!

October 18-19 - Reimagining Non-Profits -Integrating Radical Approaches to Equity! 2-Day Conference hosted by Luther College, UofR. Details can be found here. FGSR has two graduate student tickets available. If you are interested and available both days, please register before October 11th for a chance to attend.

BIPOC GSA

To become a BIPOC member, please send an email to grad.bipoc@uregina.ca.

October 11 - Are you a BIPOC Graduate student who likes food, socializing and trivia? Then this event is for you! The BIPOC GraduateStudents Association invites you to our Fall Potluck Night on October 11 from 6:30 9:30pm. We want to come to gather and celebrate the diversity in our community. So, whether you'd like to bring jollof rice, biryani, turkey, or just eat good food, you are welcome! Please RSVP as there are limited spots.

News

August 15 – September14

Vijay Kumar (Physics, supervised by Dr. Garth Huber)

Thesis: Measurement of the pion exclusive electro-production cross-section in the E12-19-006 experiment in Hall-C at Jefferson Lab

Arnaud Ngopnang Ngompe (Mathematics, supervised by Dr. Martin Frankland)

Thesis: Enriched model categories and the Dold Kan correspondence

Rhonda Stopyn (Clinical Psychology, supervised by Dr. Thomas Hadjistavropoulos)

Thesis: Real-time Evaluation of an automated computer vision system to monitor pain behaviour in older adults

Kelsey Vig (Clinical Psychology, supervised by Dr. Gordon Asmundson)

Thesis: A mixed methods study on barriers and facilitators to exercise for suicidal ideation management

Gaurav Walia (Electronic Systems Engineering, supervised by Dr. Paul Laforge)

Thesis: Dielectric characterization of materials and lossy filter design using reflected group delay

Reminders

Thesis Submission Deadlines:

• Fall term PhD thesis submission deadline: Oct. 25, 2024.
• Fall term Master’s thesis submission deadline: Nov. 8, 2024.

Opportunities

Saskatchewan Innovation and Excellence Scholarship application for new and continuing students runs from Oct 10-24. Complete an application in the GAP system.

October Deadline: NSERC and SSHRC doctoral applications (details on our webiste). See the session below for those students that want to apply for the tri-council masters scholarship. 

• Tips for Funding and Scholarships
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Scholarships with October Deadlines

Do you have an event that you would like FGSR to help promote? Please email grad.engagement@uregina.ca by Oct.10 to be in the October mid-month update email scheduled to be sent to graduate students Oct.15.