SOGS Update, the official monthly electronic newsletter from SOGS, keeps you up to date on issues and events affecting graduate students at Western University.

For updates on events, issues and discussion relevant to graduate students and Western between editions of the newsletter, consider the following:

• SOGS Facebook
• SOGS International Students Facebook
• SOGS Twitter

Do you have a news item or announcement you would like to have included in the next SOGS Update? Email advocacy@sogs.ca for more information.

In this month’s Update: 

Research & workshops

• SOGS summer term bursary deadline (May 31)

In the headlines

• Campus summer construction projects 2017
• New report shows record-level student debt as significant part of Canada’s debt crisis

Get involved

• Seeking members for the GSIC Committee
• SOGS orientation handbook cover photo contest (due June 15)

Grad Life at Western

• Health plan opt-in/out deadline for summer term (May 31)
• Gradcast recruitment event (May 5)
• McIntosh Gallery tours for graduate students (May 15, 17; please RSVP)
• Pint of Science Festival (May 15-17)
• Board Game Night (May 17)
• SOGS goes to Niagara Falls (TBD)

At the Grad Club

Monthly giveaways: Photo contest & trivia

 

Continue reading “May 2017: Newsletter”

SOGS Update, the official monthly electronic newsletter from SOGS, keeps you up to date on issues and events affecting graduate students at Western University. 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
• SOGS International Students Facebook
• SOGS Twitter

Do you have a news item or announcement you would like to have included in the next SOGS Update? Email advocacy@sogs.ca for more information.

In this month’s Update: 

Research & workshops

• SOGS Winter term subsidies deadline (April 28)
• New Professional Placement and Experiential Learning Subsidy

In the headlines

• The Case for Renewal in Post-Secondary Education

Get involved

• Nominations open for VP Academic & VP Finance (through April 18)
• Calling for volunteers to be part of the GSTA Awards Committee
• Seeking members for the Equity Committee
• SOGS orientation handbook cover photo contest

Grad Life at Western

• Bus pass information for taxes
• Merging the SOGS Facebook pages
• PSAC 610 Bargaining membership survey
• International graduate students end-of-year party (April 13)
• Free screening of Mambo Italiano (April 19)
• Board Game Night (April 19)
• Karaoke end-of-year bash (April 21)

At the Grad Club

Monthly giveaways: Photo contest & trivia

Continue reading “April 2017: Newsletter”

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.OSC/
• SOGS Facebook – international students:
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/Western.SOGS.IGSIC/
• SOGS Twitter: https://twitter.com/westernsogs

Do you have a news item or announcement you would like to have included in the next SOGS Update? Email advocacy@sogs.ca for more information.

In this month’s Update: 

Research & workshops

• Western Research Forum: Mosaic (March 10)
• SOGS subsidies deadline (due April 30)

In the headlines

• CFS-Ontario 2017 Budget Submission

Get involved

• Calling for volunteers to be part of the GSTA Awards Committee
• Nominations for VP Academic & VP Finance (due April 18)
• Seeking volunteers for Fall 2017 graduate orientation
• SOGS orientation handbook cover photo contest (due July 1)

Grad Life at Western

• Nominate exceptional TAs for a GSTA Award
• Board game night (March 16)
• HireWesternYOU launch event (March 26-27)
• Free tax information session (April 4)
• International graduate students end-of-year party (April 14)
• You’re invited to shop the Columbia employee store (March 6-26)

At the Grad Club

Monthly giveaways: Photo contest & trivia

Continue reading “March 2017: Newsletter”

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.OSC/
• SOGS Facebook – international students:
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/Western.SOGS.IGSIC/
• SOGS Twitter: https://twitter.com/westernsogs

Do you have a news item or announcement you would like to have included in the next SOGS Update? Email advocacy@sogs.ca for more information.

In this month’s Update: 

Research & workshops

• Western Research Forum 2017: Mosaic (March 10)
• Industry Problem Solving Week (Feb 21-24)

In the headlines

• Black History Month
• How students can take action: #NoBanNoWall
• Canadian Graduate and Professional Student Survey 2016 : Summary report

Get involved

• Save the date: SOGS Annual General Meeting (Feb 16)
• Do YOU want to be SOGS President? (Nominations close Feb 24)
• Celebrate Canada’s 150th Anniversary (Submissions due Feb 28)

Grad Life at Western

• Special Global Cafe (Feb 10)
• Board Game Night – (Don’t) Quit Playing Games with my Heart (Feb 15)
• Meet your SOGS Pride Commissioner (Feb 15)
• Free screening of The PhD Comics Movie (Mar 3)
• McIntosh Gallery invites you to…
  • Shelley Niro: Battlefields of my Ancestors (Jan 12 – Mar 4)
  • Shelley Niro: Artist talk (Feb 16)
  • Cold Front (Jan 12 – Mar 4)

At the Grad Club

Monthly giveaways: Photo contest & trivia

Continue reading “February 2017: Newsletter”

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.OSC/
• SOGS Facebook – international students:
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/Western.SOGS.IGSIC/
• SOGS Twitter: https://twitter.com/westernsogs

Do you have a news item or announcement you would like to have included in the next SOGS Update? Email advocacy@sogs.ca for more information.

In this month’s Update: 

Research & workshops

• Graduate Mental Health and Wellness Working Group (December 7)

In the headlines

• Recent news about access to education and student poverty

Get involved

• Fight the Fees
• Call for members for ad hoc committee on Canada’s 150th Events Fund Adjudication
• Western Student Research Conference (WSRC) seeking judges

Grad Life at Western

• Board Game Night (November 16)
• PSAC 610 Turns 20 / Thesis Completion Fundraiser (November 18)
• A Night on the Town (November 18)
• Graduate Peer Support (every Wednesday)
  • Special guest facilitator: Prof. Thomas Telfer (November 23)
• Immigration seminar for international graduate students (November 23)
• LTC Public Drop-In Events (November 23 – December 8)
• Western International and Global Cafe (every Thursday)

At the Grad Club

Monthly giveaways: Photo contest & trivia

 

Continue reading “November 2016: Newsletter”

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.OSC/
• SOGS Facebook – international students:
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/Western.SOGS.IGSIC/
• SOGS Twitter: https://twitter.com/westernsogs

Do you have a news item or announcement you would like to have included in the next SOGS Update? Email advocacy@sogs.ca for more information.

 

In this month’s Update: 

Scholarships, bursaries & programs

• SOGS subsidies, bursaries, and opt-outs! Oh my!

Research & workshops

• Teaching Support Centre: Certificate in Teaching & Learning and Future Professor Workshops
• Weekly Thesis Writing [October 4, 13, 18, 27]
• Learning Skills Graduate Student Workshops [October 13, 18]
• Graduate study spaces

In the headlines

• Do you know the Ombudsperson?

Get involved

• Last chance to submit feedback for the Western Code of Conduct Review
• All SOGS Commissioner positions up for election
• Support your Union as a departmental Steward
• Graduate Mental Health Working Group [October 24]

Grad Life at Western

• SGPS GRADitude [October 7]
• Board Game Night [October 19]
• Oktoberfest [October 20]
• Open Access Week [October 24-30]
• Graduate Peer Support weekly drop-in is back [every Wednesday]
• Pick up your ISIC card at the SOGS Office
• PSAC 610 and SOGS Zhaawanong Women and Children’s Shelter Donation Drive [November]
• Columbia discount for graduate students [through October 23]

At the Grad Club

Monthly giveaways: Photo contest & trivia

 

Continue reading “October 2016: Newsletter”