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 options:
- 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 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:
- Travel and ChildCare Subsidies [due April 29]
- OSOTF & OOP Bursaries Closed for the Term
- Upcoming Referendum and Senate/Board Elections [February 8 & 9]
- SOGS Annual General Meeting [February 11]
- Clara Hughes: Free Event and SOGS Contest Winners [February 9]
- Immigration Seminar with Elizabeth Long [February 19]
- Thesis Writers’ Program
- Now accepting submissions for the 2016 Robert Macmillan Graduate Research in Education Symposium [due February 19]
- Graduate Orientation Focus Groups [TBD; first notice]
- Call for Submissions – Visual Research Exhibition: Energizing Communities Visually [due March 1]
- Free movie Night: Warm Bodies [February 12]
- Board Game Night [February 17]
- VIP Oscars Party [February 20]
- International Students Bowling Night [March 1; tickets available as of February 8]
- At the Grad Club
- February Trivia