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FW Katherine Stanley: Organic Agronomist Training
by Bev Godard 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

From: Katherine Stanley Sent: February-27-17 9:58 AM To: Bev Godard Subject: Organic Agronomist Training Hi Bev, Please email out this agenda and information for our organic agronomist training to all plant science and soil science graduate students. The event will be held on March 10th in Carman. The cost will be free to graduate students and lunch is provided, but there is only space for 10 students. Students can email Katherine.stanley(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:Katherine.stanley@umanitoba.ca> to register. There are details in the pdf! Katherine Katherine Stanley MSc. Natural Systems Agriculture Department of Plant Science University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba (204) 474-6236 katherine.stanley(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:katherine.stanley@umanitoba.ca>

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International Plant Nutrition Institute Scholar Awards
by Martha Blouw 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) Scholar Awards Please see attached. Martha

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Advanced Plant Science Seminar - Thursday, March 2, 2017
by Christy Doyle 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

On Thursday, March 2, 2017, the Department of Plant Science, Advanced Plant Science Seminar will be: "Breeding Winter Wheat for Resistance to Pests in Western Canada" Presented by: Robert Graf Research Scientist, Winter Wheat Breeding Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Lethbridge AB At 3:30 p.m. in the Carolyn Sifton Lecture Theatre, Room 130, Agriculture Building. A Poster is attached. Coffee at 3:00 p.m. in the Atrium Everyone Welcome!!

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Graduate student symposium, Polo shirt order and Festival du Voyageur
by Yang Lin 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

Hi Fellow Grad Students 1. This is a reminder that February 24 is the deadline for oral presentation abstracts and title submissions for the 33rd annual plant science graduate student symposium in Saskatoon. Here is the abstract submission format requirement: (http://agbio.usask.ca/plscgradsymposium/Registration/custom-form1.php) Again, I strongly encourage you to consider attending this symposium. 2. We are planning to order our own polo shirts. Each polo shirt will have two embroidered logos (Plant Science logo on the left breast and the UofM official logo on the right sleeve) and cost $32.60. The color will be navy blue. In order to receive polo shirts before Mar 24th, students need to give me <liny3457(a)myumanitoba.ca> or Laura <laura.dawn.marie(a)gmail.com>their order including size and the money. Here is the link for different colors and the size scale of polo shirts: --For females, the style # is 78181 https://www.alphabroder.ca/cgi-bin/online/webshr/prod-labeldtl.w?sr=78181&c… --For males, the style # is 88181 https://www.alphabroder.ca/cgi-bin/online/webshr/prod-labeldtl.w?sr=88181&c… FYI: the website price ($19.98) is the Polo shirt without any logos. 3. Festival du Voyageur (https://festivalvoyageur.mb.ca/en/) is happening from Feb 17 to Feb 26. It will be a casual event for PSGSA. A few students will go there around 11:30. If you are coming later, you can text me to meet up with us (204-963-5329). Aanother group might go on the next Saturday. Feel free to come either one or both. [https://festivalvoyageur.mb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1.jpg]<https://festivalvoyageur.mb.ca/en/> Festival Du Voyageur - Western Canada's Largest Winter ...<https://festivalvoyageur.mb.ca/en/> festivalvoyageur.mb.ca Every winter since 1970, Saint-Boniface, Winnipeg’s French quarter, is transformed into a winter paradise and becomes host to the largest winter festival in Western ... Best Regards, Yang Lin Ph.D Student Room 148 at Agriculture Building Department of Plant Science University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 Tel: (204) 963-5329

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Governor General Gold Medal
by Martha Blouw 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Name GOVERNOR GENERALS GOLD MEDAL Research Fields unrestricted Categories No categories available Citizenship Unrestricted Eligibility The Governor General of Canada offers an annual gold medal called The Governor General’s Gold Medal to recognize the outstanding performance of a graduate student. This award is based on overall academic excellence through coursework, research, awards and distinctions, letters of reference, external examiner’s report and a description of the student’s statement on the significance of their research. Eligibility for the medal is open to all students who will be convocating with a Master’s or a Ph.D. at Spring Convocation in May, 2017 (this includes those students who had a February 2017 grad date) or who graduated the previous Fall in October 2016 at the University of Manitoba. Value Gold medal Currency Canadian Tenable at No details on tenability available Deadlines April 3 Application Details Each Faculty/Unit may nominate one Master’s or Doctoral student for the Governor General’s Gold Medal. Nomination must be submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies on or before the deadline and are to include: (1) a letter from the Dean/Director of the Faculty/Unit giving a detailed rationale for the nomination, (2) the nominee’s curriculum vitae, (3) a brief statement (one page) from the nominee on the significance of his/her research and related achievements during the graduate program, whereas for nominees in non-research based programs, rationale for choosing the program, significance of work (breadth of knowledge gained) and expected contribution to his/her career aspirations (4) a letter of support from the advisor, (5) the report from the external examiner. For Masters thesis, the report from the examiner external to the home department of the nominee is required (where applicable). Where a department does not have examiners external to the department for thesis Master's students, and/or they don't have written reports from an internal examiner external to their department, this requirement is waived. The selection committee will include the Dean and Associate Dean(s) of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and three members of the Executive Committee representing areas of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Social Sciences and Humanities and Medical and Health Sciences or designates. The Dean shall act as Chair. Please check with your faculty/unit if you are interested in being nominated for the award. The deadline for faculties and units to have their nominations to FGS is April 1, however the deadline by which a faculty/unit wants to have nominations submitted to them will most likely be earlier. Please check with your department for their submission deadline. Updated: February 14th, 2017 Contact: sara.sealey(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:sara.sealey@umanitoba.ca> Martha Blouw Academic Advisor Department of Plant Science ǀ Department of Soil Science 226 Agriculture Building, 66 Dafoe Road University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2 T: 204.474.8223 F: 204.474.7528

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FW: Find Your Voice - Communications Bootcamp for Students - March 8
by Martha Blouw 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

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FW: MCWESTT 2017 CONFERENCE - women in engineering, science, trades, and technology
by Martha Blouw 10 Feb '17

10 Feb '17

Join us on May 5th, 2017 at the Fort Garry Hotel for MCWESTT 2017: a local, one-day conference dedicated to connecting women in engineering, science, trades, and technology, and empowering them to Create, Foster, and Lead. Our Master of Ceremonies for the day will be Winnipeg based comedian Dana Smith, who runs the successful Women's Open Mic show at Jekyll & Hyde's and is a member of the sketch group H.U.N.K.S. (5 STARS - Winnipeg Free Press). MCWESTT 2017 is proud to feature the following keynote speakers: * Susan Auch, three-time Olympic medalist from Winnipeg, MB * Shari Graydon, award-winning author, advocate, and speaker * Sarah Neville, communication expert and acclaimed speaker Register before Friday, March 10th to receive the limited-time early bird pricing<https://apps.apegm.mb.ca/MCWESTT2017Registration.aspx>. For the first time ever, MCWESTT 2017 is offering a full day pre-conference workshop on Thursday, May 4th, 2017! The WinSETT Effective Communication<http://hollettandsons.ca/winsett-leadership-program/> workshop will be facilitated by Edna Dach with guest speakers Trish Jordan and Dawn Nedohin-Macek. Thanks to the generous partnership of the NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering - Prairies, this workshop is available at a significantly discounted rate of only $75, exclusively for our conference participants. Be sure to register early as the workshop is limited to only 30 participants. Want to stay up-to-date on all MCWESTT 2017 announcements, including speaker bios, pre-conference workshop details, and all conference promotions? Connect with us! on facebook<https://www.facebook.com/mcwestt/>, twitter<https://twitter.com/MCWESTT2017>, Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/mcwestt/>, or LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/groups/6693473> http://www.mcwestt.com<http://www.mcwestt.com/>/ Annemieke Farenhorst, Ph.D., P.Ag. NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering - Prairie Region. Professor, Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences NSERC CWSE-Prairies web-site: http://cwse-prairies.ca/ NSERC H2O CREATE web-site: http://create-h2o.ca/ Contact address: University of Manitoba 380 Ellis Building Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2 Tel: (204) 474 6858 FAX: (204) 474 7642 E-mail: annemieke.farenhorst(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:annemieke.farenhorst@umanitoba.ca>

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REMINDER: University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship Competition
by Martha Blouw 06 Feb '17

06 Feb '17

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP (UMGF) COMPETITION PLEASE NOTE: For this competition, we only have Ph.D. level fellowships to award. I have attached the instructions and application. To ensure your application is complete and competitive, read and follow the instructions. Application Deadline: FEBRUARY 20, 2017 Please submit your application to Martha.Blouw(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:Martha.Blouw@umanitoba.ca> Martha

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Another Paint Friday event on Feb 17th
by Jia Sun 06 Feb '17

06 Feb '17

Dear grad students, The PSGSA will be holding another Paint Friday for all grad students from 2:30-4:30 pm on Friday, Feb 17th. This time we have three options for you so please vote for your favourite painting if you're interested in coming, and we will paint the most popular one together next week! The three painting are (please vote here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XYFRDJ7): 1. Nothern Lights [cid:dc107ea7-bf17-4676-8525-ad9fd44dfe6b] 2. Birch Trees [cid:f298fb38-fd5f-4bc9-80aa-30296483a9c6] 3. Tulips [cid:092e75b5-691c-488e-9671-82de3988fd35] Same as last time the cost of attending this event is $5/person, which includes everything (paint, brushes, canvas, etc.). Snacks and pops will be provided too. Again you can take your masterpiece back home with you at the end of the event. The deadline for signing up is this Friday, Feb 10th. You can make the payment at the event to Laura. Email me (sunj2458(a)myumanitoba.ca) to sign up or if you need more details about this event. I'll also leave a sign-up sheet in the grad student lounge. Looking forward to seeing you all there! Jia Sun PhD Student PSGSA Vice-President 2016-2017 Department of Plant Science 222 Agriculture Building University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2

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Extend the submission of title and abstract for the 33rd annual plant science graduate student symposium
by Yang Lin 04 Feb '17

04 Feb '17

Dear fellow grad students For the 33rd annual plant science graduate student symposium, the submission of the oral presentation title and abstract have been extended until Feb 24th, 2016. So far, seven students from our department have signed up. I highly encourage more fellow grad students to consider attending this event. Please see this link for the further detail informaiton http://agbio.usask.ca/plscgradsymposium/ Best Regards, Yang Lin Ph.D Student Room 148 at Agriculture Building Department of Plant Science University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 Tel: (204) 963-5329 ________________________________ From: Petruic, Moria <mep985(a)mail.usask.ca> Sent: Friday, February 3, 2017 8:47 AM To: Yang Lin Cc: Brar, Gurcharn Subject: Re: Symposium title submission Hi Yang, I have 7 titles submitted from the U of M: 1) Karuna Kapoor 2) Laura Schmidt 3) Yang Lin 4 )Bruce Pei (He said he was from both U of M and AAFC) 5) Harunur Rashid 6) Ashley Ammeter 7) MM Uzzal Ahmed Liton As Gurcharn said, title submission has been pushed back until February 24th. If you have any more questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to let us know! Thank you for your participation! We are looking forward to hosting you at the end of March! Moria Petruic MSc Candidate Department of Plant Sciences Room 4C18, 51 Campus Drive University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8 Phone: 306.868.7687 ________________________________ From: Brar, Gurcharn Sent: February 2, 2017 9:06 PM To: Yang Lin Cc: Petruic, Moria Subject: Re: Symposium title submission Hi Yang, Thanks for your message. Moria Petruic (cc’ed here) will be able to help you out with your question on submissions as she is the key person taking care of all submissions. Actually, we have extended the deadline for title submissions to Feb. 24, which is also deadline for abstract submission. If you visit symposium website again, there’s link for both submissions on homepage. It will be great to have at least 10-15 students from Manitoba as we have spot for at least 80 students in total. This symposium will be no different from a good National Level conference or even better and our ultimate goal was to make this symposium series more exciting. So, you are talking about a total of about 5 submissions from Manitoba only? Please feel free to pose any question that you may have. Thanks, Gurcharn From: Yang Lin <liny3457(a)myumanitoba.ca<mailto:liny3457@myumanitoba.ca>> Date: Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 7:04 PM To: Gurcharn Brar <gurcharn.brar(a)usask.ca<mailto:gurcharn.brar@usask.ca>> Subject: Re: Symposium title submission Hi Gurcharn Would you mind helping me to check how many people from UofM officially had submitted their ora preparation titles until Feb 1st? I think it is 5 people from uofm submitting the titles but like to confirm with you. Also, will it be possible to other people to still submit their abstracts on feb15 even though they missed the deadline of title submission? I will try my best to encourage others to attend this meeting, since you guys have spent so much time and efforts to organize a such high level symposium with many great keynote speakers. Yang Sent from my iPhone On Jan 27, 2017, at 11:16, Brar, Gurcharn <gurcharn.brar(a)usask.ca<mailto:gurcharn.brar@usask.ca>> wrote: Hi Yang, I hope you are doing well. Can you please send a reminder in your department to other grad students to submit titles for symposium. The deadline is January 31 for title submission. We did not receive many from U of M. Symposium website link is: http://agbio.usask.ca/plscgradsymposium/index.php Thanks.

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