Keynote Speaker: Dr. Gary Poole,  Associate Director of the School of Population and Public Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Senior Scholar in the Centre for Health Education Scholarship at the University of British Columbia.

Date: May 15th & 16th, 2013

Location: MacEwan Student Centre, University of Calgary

Fees: $300 Full conference fee
$250 Full conference fee for U of C faculty
$225 Early bird fee for U of C faculty (Before April 19th, 2013)
$250 Early bird for non U of C faculty (Before April 19th, 2013)
$200 Grad Student fee

 Website: http://tlc.ucalgary.ca/cflearn/

Health checks are short, simple screening tests to show students how they "measure up" with:

• Height, weight and waist circumference;
• Screening readings for blood pressure and cholesterol;
• Lifestyle questionnaire;
• Interpretation & recommendations from health professional;
• Advice and information on internal and external resources.

Open to all graduate students. Do you have a conference or presentation coming up? Are you competing in the University of Calgary 3 Minutes Thesis competition? Then this highly interactive workshop is for you!

Presenters: Julie Brown (Grad Students' Association), Camille de Lacey (Leadership & Student Engagement), Roxanne Ross (Student Success Center)

Limited spaces available. Register before April 8th by emailing your name, student ID and Department to mygradskills@ucalgary.ca.

Through the PhD Support program, the CAEF is committed to supporting individuals interested in pursuing their doctoral studies in accounting. The PhD Support Program assists accounting professionals who aspire to return to the university classroom to teach the next generation of business leaders. The CAEF provides selected candidates with up to $20,000 of support per year, for up to four years. The support is a loan, which is forgiven if the individual earns a PhD and teaches accounting at an Alberta post-secondary institution offering a CA School of Business (CASB) approved degree or at the University of Saskatchewan. One year of teaching forgives one year of support.

Application deadline is April 30 of each year, with funding commencing at the beginning of the fall academic year. 
  

Click here for more: http://www.albertacas.ca/CAEducationFoundation/TypesofSupport/PhD.aspx

A "research challenge" is a broad range of questions all having in common that:

-They are originated from (one of ) your real-world business projects

-Content-wise, they somehow have a link to one of the CPSC competence areas listed here...

-You believe that some portion of research would allow you to better address the original problem.

We hope this initiative will foster collaboration between industry and academia. We think it is a win-win situation: Addressing research challenges (we might not be able to solve all of themJ) potentially results in improvement of your business project. Simultaneously, it might raise a new question a researcher has not yet though about and is interested in working on.

For each challenge you have in mind, please fill out the attached form and submit toruhe@ucalgary.ca.

We will have a dedicated session during our Industry Day event where we will discuss the results and offer ideas on how to proceed with the challenges. One idea would be to apply for an NSERC ENGAGE grant (with the key idea of fostering collaboration between industry and academia). See here...  

Please submit your challenges until May 2nd.

Please also indicate if there is any confidentiality concern talking about your challenge.

Challenges can also be formulated on-site during Industry Day.

We are looking forward to receiving your research challenges.