SOGS Update, the official monthly electronic newsletter from SOGS, keeps you up to date on issues and events affecting graduate students at The University of Western Ontario. If you are looking for previous issues of SOGS Update please contact the office.
For updates on events, issues and discussion relevant to graduate students and Western between editions of the newsletter, consider the following:
- SOGS Facebook – main: https://www.facebook.com/Western.SOGS
- SOGS Facebook – social group: https://www.facebook.com/Western.SOGS.Socials
- SOGS Facebook – international students:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Western.SOGS.IGSIC/ - SOGS Twitter: https://twitter.com/westernsogs
- SOGS Forum, a joinable OWL site (contact external@sogs.ca if unsure how to join sites on OWL)
Do you have an International Student Identification Card (ISIC)? If not, our office is now equipped to distribute ISICs upon request, and the printing process only takes a few minutes. To request your free ISIC, bring your lovely self and your student card to UCC 260 during regular office hours.
Do you have a news item or announcement you would like to have included in the next SOGS Update? Email external@sogs.ca for more information.
In this month’s Update:
- Western Research Forum [THIS Friday, March 4]
- Sexual Violence Forum: Engaging Men at Western [March 11]
- Practicing Transgender-Inclusive Health Care: A panel discussion [March 17]
- 2016 Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Conference [June 21-24]
- Ontario budget commits to free tuition for low-income families
- SOGS President Tamara Hinan acclaimed for a second term
- Talent search
- Calling all students who wish to be a part of the Graduate Student TA Awards Committee
- SOGS Orientation Committee Call for Members
- Grad students, are you satisfied with your program?
- We want to know how YOU feel about London’s Rapid Transit plan
- The Grad Club Presents… The Liquid Education Series [March 9, 16, & 30]
- Pedometer challenge [March 9]
- Weekly Thesis Writing Pilot Project [March 11, 14, 25, & 31]
- Dueling Pianos 4 Epilepsy [March 12; early bird tickets until March 7]
- Hot yoga event [March 13]
- Board Game Night [March 16]
- Post-St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast [March 18]
- Women’s Empowerment Dinner [March 24]
- London Knights Playoff Event [tentative dates include March 25, 31, & April 1]
- International graduate students are cordially invited to an End of Year Party [March 28]
Monthly giveaways: Trivia & NEW photo contest
