I am forwarding the following message on behalf of Mark Belmonte.
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Subject: Plant Science GSA BBQ
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:57:17 -0500
From: Mark Findlay Belmonte <umbelmon(a)cc.umanitoba.ca>
To: Bev Godard <godardbd(a)ms.umanitoba.ca>
Good Morning Graggies!
The Plant Science GSA will hold their annual end of year BBQ on Tuesday May 1
at 12 noon in the Plant Science courtyard.
The first BBQ of the season also means that it's time to elect a new Plant
Science Graduate Students' Association executive. There are a number of
positions to be filled and include:
President
Treasurer
Social Director
Social committee
Dept Plant Science Council Rep
GSA Rep
Sports Rep
Safety committee Rep
Computer Rep
Library Rep
The creation of the new: 'Advanced Plant Science Seminar Graduate Student Rep'
will also need to be filled by a Doctoral student.
The details and responsibilities of all positions are posted in the grad
lounge. If you would like to nominate a person who you feel would represent
the Department well and continue our strong tradition of success and
comaraderie, please feel free to send me their names.
This is a great time to reward yourself by donating your service to the
Department!
Beverages and treats will be served - please bring your own BBQ-ables!
Hope to see you all there!
Mark Belmonte
President PSGSA
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Bev Godard
Secretary
Department of Plant Science
University of Manitoba
66 Dafoe Road
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3T 2N2
Phone: (204) 474-8563
Fax: (204) 474-7528
Bev_Godard(a)umanitoba.ca
Good morning to all,
The meeting this morning with Dr. Tahir and the grad students will now
start at 11:30 in Room 218 instead of 11:00.
Thanks,
Bev
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Bev Godard
Secretary
Department of Plant Science
University of Manitoba
66 Dafoe Road
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3T 2N2
Phone: (204) 474-8563
Fax: (204) 474-7528
Bev_Godard(a)umanitoba.ca
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Subject: GSA dinner
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:17:28 -0500
From: umbagava(a)cc.umanitoba.ca
To: godardbd(a)cc.umanitoba.ca
Hi Bev,
Please forward this to all graduate students in plant science.
Thank you!
Muthu
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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:39:51 -0500
From: "Vice President (Student Affairs)" <vpsa(a)umgsa.ca>
Reply-To: vpsa(a)umgsa.ca
Subject: Free food and live music!
To: undisclosed-recipients@
Hey councilors, can you forward this on to everyone in your department?
Hey everyone!
Its the end of term and we're all getting ready to do our summer things.
It's also the change over for our executive. As a celebration the GSA is
hosting a party for graduate students at Degrees Diner on the Third
Floor of University Centre on Friday April 27th.. The plan is to start
things rolling at 6:00pm. Please feel free to bring your partner if you
have one!
There will be free food (from Degrees) and a live DJ (DJ @Large). There
is no cover and drinks are going to be pretty cheap ($2.75 i believe).
Please come out! Its going to be an excellent time!
--
Jason Kelly, B.Sc.
Vice-President (Student Affairs)
University of Manitoba Graduate Students' Association
Local 96 - Canadian Federation of Students
221 University Centre
Tel. (204)474 9181
Fax. (204)474 7560
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Bev Godard
Secretary
Department of Plant Science
University of Manitoba
66 Dafoe Road
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3T 2N2
Phone: (204) 474-8563
Fax: (204) 474-7528
Bev_Godard(a)umanitoba.ca
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The Mary Perlmutter Scholarship
The annual scholarship is named after COG past-president and long-time
organic grower Mary
Perlmutter. The intent of the award is to promote and encourage
research of benefit to organic
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Value: $4,000
Application Deadline: June 30, 2007
Applications and further information are available at
http://www.cog.ca/scholarship.htm
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Martha Blouw, Administrative Assistant
Department of Plant Science
226 Agriculture Building
66 Dafoe Road
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2
Phone: (204) 474-8223 Fax: (204) 474-7528
martha_blouw(a)umanitoba.ca
http://www.umanitoba.ca/afs/plant_science/
I am forwarding this message on behalf of Chris Willenborg.
Bev
Dear Graduate Students,
As you know, we are currently searching for a term position within the
department as a canola/rapeseed breeder. The final two candidates, Drs.
Yadeta Kabeta and Muhammad Tahir, will be interviewed next week. On
Wednesday, April 25 and Friday, April 27 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in
Room 218, Drs. Kabeta and Tahir will be meeting with the graduate
students, respectively. Please make an effort to attend this important
event. Again, departmental hirings are made at many levels and can
significantly affect graduate students. Consequently, your opinions will
be important to the hiring process and I would therefore encourage you
to attend these meetings with the candidates and email your feedback to
me so that I can pass it on to Dr. Ballance. It is also a good
opportunity to learn a lot about the interview process and types of
questions to expect as well. I hope we can put forward a good turn out !
Chris
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Christian J. Willenborg
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Plant Science
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2
Office (204) 474-6093
Cell (204) 479-9774
Fax (204) 474-7528
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~umwillen/
<http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/%7Eumwillen/>
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Bev Godard
Secretary
Department of Plant Science
University of Manitoba
66 Dafoe Road
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3T 2N2
Phone: (204) 474-8563
Fax: (204) 474-7528
Bev_Godard(a)umanitoba.ca
Dear Graduate Students,
We are currently searching for a term position within the department as
a canola/rapeseed breeder. This Thursday, Dr. Xiuqiang Huang, one of the
candidates for the position, will give a special seminar at 3:30 PM in
Room 218 entitled "Use of innovative approaches for crop improvement and
germplasm development." I would encourage all of you to attend as it is
a great opportunity to view the candidate as see what a research seminar
involves. Further to this, we have an hour on Friday, April 20 from
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM to meet with Dr. Huang in Room 218. This is an
excellent opportunity to ask Dr. Huang questions and the candidates
views on several aspects of their potential academic position.
Departmental hirings are made at many levels and can significantly
affect graduate students. Consequently, your opinions will be important
to the hiring process and I would therefore encourage you to attend this
meeting with the candidate and email your feedback to me so that I can
pass it on to Dr. Ballance. I hope we can put forward a good turn out !
Chris
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Christian J. Willenborg
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Plant Science
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2
Office (204) 474-6093
Cell (204) 479-9774
Fax (204) 474-7528
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~umwillen/
--
Bev Godard
Secretary
Department of Plant Science
University of Manitoba
66 Dafoe Road
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3T 2N2
Phone: (204) 474-8563
Fax: (204) 474-7528
Bev_Godard(a)umanitoba.ca
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Subject: Fwd: Fee Restructuring Town Hall and Supporters
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:57:14 -0500
From: umbagava(a)cc.umanitoba.ca
To: godardbd(a)cc.umanitoba.ca
Hi Bev,
Please forward this to all graduate students in plant science.
Thank you!
Muthu
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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:11:49 -0500
From: Meghan Gallant <pres(a)umgsa.ca>
Reply-To: Meghan Gallant <pres(a)umgsa.ca>
Subject: Fee Restructuring Town Hall and Supporters
To: undisclosed-recipients@
Hi everyone,
A couple of updates about graduate fee restructuring:
First, the GSA has coordinated an open townhall meeting this Wednesday
at 12:30pm in the UMSU Council Chambers (176 Helen Glass). This is an
opportunity for any students, faculty, graduate chairs etc to come and
ask question or raise concerns about the fee restructuring proposal. We
invited a member of the fee restructuring committee to attend, and the
central administration has sent Richard Lobdell on their behalf. Tom
Booth, from the Faculty Association, and I will also be speaking.
Please spread the work and encourage people to attend!
Second, I wanted to let you know that on Thursday of last week, the
University of Manitoba Faculty Association unanimously approved a motion
in opposition to the graduate fee restructuring! The Faculty of
Graduate Studies Executive Committee met on the same day. This
committee is made up of representatives of each faculty with graduate
programs, the associate deans of graduate studies, and three student
representatives. The Dean is the chair of the committee and so does not
vote. This committee had never had an opportunity to discuss graduate
fees, and members added the fee restructuing proposal to the meeting
agenda, and then raised concerns about the lack of consultation and
potential implications of the proposal. The committee unanimously
passed a motion stating that the Board should not consider this proposal
until students and faculty are consulted properly.
This motion won't stop the Board from considering the proposal, but is
an important demonstration of the way this proposal is being pushed
through without support from anyone other than the central administration.
I'll send out more updates as I have them.
Meghan
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Meghan Gallant
President
University of Manitoba Graduate Students' Association
Local 96 - Canadian Federation of Students
221 University Centre
Phone: (204) 474-9181
Cell: (204) 291-6239
www.umgsa.ca
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Department of Plant Science
University of Manitoba
66 Dafoe Road
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3T 2N2
Phone: (204) 474-8563
Fax: (204) 474-7528
Bev_Godard(a)umanitoba.ca