IMS Weekly Digest - March 22, 2021
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Highlights
- Events
- Family Care Office Workshops (Mar 23-25)
- Navigating as Indigenous and Racialized Graduate Students (Mar 23)
- FemSTEM 2021 (Mar 24)
- SickKids Research Connections: COVID-19 Series (Mar 25)
- SSN Coffee Hour (Mar 26)
- The Road Less Travelled: Ryan Green (Mar 26)
- 30-Day Wellness Challenge (Apr 4)
- International Student Events:
- International Conversation with Edmund Koh (Mar 24)
- Navigating a Career in Neuroscience (Mar 26)
- Call for:
- Family Care Survey Responses
- Call for Lab Mentors (May 7)
- Jobs
- TATP Job Postings (Mar 25)
- Did you know? Base funding
- IMS Mentions: Claire Wunker
- Graduate Coordinators Office Hours
- IMS in the News
- Dr. Angela Cheung
- Dr. Arthur Slutsky
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Family Care Office Workshops
This week's events - register here:
- Women's wellness for student family housing (March 23)
- Stress management (March 24)
- Elder care - long term care planning (March 25)
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Grad Connection: Navigating as Indigenous and Racialized Graduate Students
March 23, 4:00 -5:00 pm
Take a break and connect with other grad students at our virtual chat forum. This space is hosted monthly by racialized graduate students for Indigenous and racialized graduate students to discuss the particularities of their experiences at the university as a grad student. Register here.
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FemSTEM 2021
March 24, 3:00 - 5:00 pm
International Women's Day may have passed but the time to support women never does. Health Innovation Hub's FemSTEM 2021 programming continues onward, reaching its pinnacle with the inaugural FemSTEM Pitch Competition!
Join us to see six fantastic women pitch to win up to $16,000 in non-dilutive funding. Three of our esteemed FemSTEM guests will be reprising their roles as leaders on our judging panel. You can find out more about our finalists and judges and register here.
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SickKids Research Connections: COVID-19 Series
March 25, 12:00 pm
Learn about exciting COVID-19 research at SickKids spanning multiple disciplines, within different RI programs and the Hospital.
Speakers:
- Astrid Guttmann: Impact of deferred healthcare on child and youth health
- Karen A. Gordon: Children’s exposure to spoken communication is reduced during COVID-19 lockdown: Evidence from cochlear implant users
- Daphne J. Korczak and Evdokia Anagnostou: Changing Childhoods: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children's mental health
Join us on Zoom
Meeting ID: 953 5049 4535
Passcode: 762709
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SRI Coffee Hour
March 26, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
SPN will be hosting monthly coffee hours to help promote communication and collaboration amongst us research trainees in all platforms here at Sunnybrook (Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Evaluative Clinical Sciences). Mingle with fellow SRI students every last Friday of the Month. The event will have trivia followed by short research presentations and networking.
Join us on Zoom
Meeting ID: 811 4152 4486
Password: ssncoffee
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BMC Speaker Series: The Road Less Travelled
March 26, 2:00 pm
Ryan is a digital interactive artist, programmer, and video game designer currently focused on narrative VR, serious, and accessible games. The first decade of his career was spent as a UI/UX designer, programmer, and software architect for Davita Healthcare, a Fortune 500 company. Ryan currently serves as Creative Director and Head of Narrative for Numinous Games, a studio he co-founded in 2012.In his talk, Ryan will tell how the stories he over which he had no control shaped his work and his studio’s journey. See the full program of speakers and register here.
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Wellness Challenge
Register by April 4
Looking to build healthy habits? Want to stay active and connected with peers during the pandemic? Join the SSN 30-Day Wellness Challenge! You will receive an electronic calendar with fitness/social/wellness task options for each day. You will have a chance to win a raffle prize for a $50 gift card of your choice by entering the challenge. Register here and contact us at sri.studentnetwork@gmail.com for any questions or concerns.
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2. International Student Events
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International Conversation with Edmund Koh, President of UBS Asia Pacific
March 24, 9:30 - 10:30 am
Curious about global leadership and the importance of developing global competencies? Join us for this virtual discussion with U of T alumnus Edmund Koh, President of UBS Asia Pacific on the continued importance of global perspective to succeeding as citizens, professionals, and leaders.
Register here.
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Meeting ID: 819 6289 5509
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Family Care Survey Responses
The Family Care Office at the University of Toronto would appreciate if students with family responsibilities can take 5-10 minutes to answer the survey questions found here.
The mission of the Family Care Office is to provide confidential guidance, resources, referrals, educational programming and advocacy for the University of Toronto community and their families.
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Call for Lab Mentors
Register by May 7
The GLSE is seeking volunteeres who will mentor undergraduate students in years 1-4 in your lab for the Grad Shadowing Program. The Grad Shadowing Program will take place virtually between May 31 – July 31, 2021. The length of the shadowing can range from 1-3 days and must be agreed upon between the undergraduate student and his/her graduate mentor. The time schedule is also at the discretion of the graduate student. Register here.
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TATP Job Postings
Apply by March 25
The Teaching Assistant’s Training Program (TATP) is hiring for the 2021-2022 fall and winter sessions!
The Teaching Assistants’ Training Program (TATP) is a peer-training program housed at the Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation (CTSI). TATP seeks to prepare graduate students and teaching assistants for the realities and demands of teaching in academic and non-academic settings.
Explore the TATP Job Postings for the all available positions.
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Did you know that many awards are counted toward the base funding that you receive from your supervisor? This means that in the event that you win an award, your stipend will be reduced by the value of it if it is over $2000. Details can be found in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine Harmonized Base Funding Agreement and on the IMS website.
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7. Graduate Coordinators Office Hours
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Tuesdays from 9:00 - 10:00 am
The IMS Graduate Coordinators, Dr. Lucy Osborne and Dr. Vasu Venkateswaran, will be holding weekly virtual office hours.
You are invited to join the meeting to ask the Graduate Coordinators your program-related questions (you will be placed in a waiting room until they are ready to see you). If you would like to discuss more personal matters, please contact them directly to set up a meeting.
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“There’s just this kind of camaraderie and, during this pandemic, I’ve seen a lot of great female leaders that have stayed the course and not been wavered by all the noise around them, even when they’re tapped out.” says IMS Faculty Dr. Angela Cheung in the Toronto Star. |
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Is it better to have one Canadian with 95 per cent protection and a second Canadian with zero protection, or is it better to have two Canadians, each with 85 per cent protection?
Dr. Fahad Razak, with contributions from Dr. Gerald Evans and IMS Faculty Dr. Arthur Slutsky, writes an opinion piece in the Toronto Star discussing the delayed second vaccine dose strategy.
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