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UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · 22d

🍂The September edition of the Research Office Newsletter is hitting your mailboxes now. Didn't get it? Check your junk folder, or sign up & view previous editions here.
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UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · 29d

📆 SEPT 16 2-4PM, K150 | Come along to the Graduate Studies fair & learn about the opportunities available for your next chapter. Our team will be there to answer all your question! 👨‍🎓

UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · Sep 3

📆 Application deadline: September 29, 2025
👉 Full details: innovation.mitacs.ca/en/horizon-e...

Horizon Europe International Mobility Award | Mitacs

Apply for the Mitacs Horizon Europe International Mobility Award. Get funding for travel, networking, and proposal development to join EU research consortia. Strengthen Canada–Europe R&D partnerships.

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UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · Sep 3

1/2: The Mitacs Horizon Europe International Mobility Award (IMA) offers faculty members up to $10,000 CAD ($5,000 CAD per individual traveler) in funding to support travel, and participation in consortia-building activities tied to Horizon Europe projects.

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UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · Aug 21

🌻 The August edition of the Research Office Newsletter is hitting your mailboxes now. Didn't get it? Check your junk folder, or sign up & view previous editions here.
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UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · Aug 8

UFV offers undergraduate students unrivalled opportunities to develop and share their work, and to effect real change in the world. We couldn't be prouder.💚

UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · Aug 8

🍓Attendance at Canadian Society of Horticulture Science/Canadian Society of Agronomy annual meeting in Kelowna in June
🍓Presentation of data to over 220 experts in the field
🍓Third place in a graduate poster presentation competition
🍓And all as the only undergraduate student!

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UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · Aug 8

Congratulations to Emily Foster on this groundbreaking research. 🍓👏

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Sweet relief: UFV research shows melatonin helps strawberries handle the heat

For humans, melatonin is useful for getting to sleep. For strawberry plants, it may be a tool for survival in a warming world. UFV student researcher Emily Foster recently finished a study that found...

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UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · Jul 14

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Climate professor receives $2.5 million grant to document stories globally - UVic News

Fires rage, floods devastate, storms surge: every day we hear about the impacts of climate change, with ever-increasing casualty counts and infrastructure

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UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · Jul 14

'From Catastrophe to Community: A People’s History of Climate Change' will train 500 post-secondary students and professional journalists in new trauma-informed, human-rights-based storytelling practices to support the recovery of communities impacted by climate change and humanitarian crises.

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UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · Jul 14

Congratulations to Dr. Michelle Superle, Associate Professor, English, and co-applicant on this $2.5 million SSHRC Partnership Grant to document climate-impacted stories from around the world.

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UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · Jul 9

Congratulations to the following UFV faculty on their SSHRC awards:

- Dr. Shawn Geniole (Psychology) & Dr. Alex Wetmore (English) - SSHRC Insight Development Grants
-Dr. Michelle Superle (English) - SSHRC Partnership Grant, in partnership with UVic.

👉 sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/news/2025...

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Education, Community, & Human Development @ UFV @ufv-fechd.bsky.social · May 2

UFV employees are invited to EDI Under Attack: Challenges and Opportunities, a hybrid talk by Dr. Tannaz Zargarian and Muhialdin Bakini on May 12. Register at forms.office.com/r/kN2E5pKvGs
#goUFV @goufv.bsky.social

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UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · Apr 25

Faculty, thinking of applying for a Sabbatical Leave? Join our upcoming online workshop to find out everything you need to know. No registration required.
📆Tuesday, May 13, 1-2pm via Teams.
👉 bit.ly/Sabbatical2025

UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · Apr 14

Have you registered yet? Open to students and faculty. Sign up by April 22. 👉 bit.ly/ufv_mitacs

UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · Apr 9

The event will feature a presentation from the Research Office on the grant writing and submission process, a roundtable and Q&A featuring former grant recipients, and networking activities.

Registration required: bit.ly/ufv_grantswo...

Spring Grant Writing Workshop

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UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · Apr 9

📆MAY 15 | UFV Faculty members - are you planning to apply for a major grant this year (CIHR, NSERC or SSHRC)? Unsure? Come out to learn best practices from successful grant recipients, network with fellow researchers, and improve your odds of writing a successful grant application.

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UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · Apr 9

#TBT. This time last week, over 90 students, forty faculty judges, and countless guests from the university and wider community gathered to showcase outstanding research at Student Research Day. 💚
📸Catch up on the event photos here: flic.kr/s/aHBqjC7NUC

UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · Apr 8

📢Calling faculty members!
✨Nominations are open for this year's Undergraduate Research Excellence Awards! Help us to honour UFV's brightest sparks in undergraduate research.
✨Deadline for nominations: April 25. Full details available at bit.ly/URE2025

UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · Apr 7

APR 29, 10-12 | Faculty & students are invited to an information session on Mitacs funding programs. A Q&A session will follow. Refreshments provided, registration required by April 22.
👉 bit.ly/ufv_mitacs

UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · Mar 26

⏰ONE WEEK TO GO! April 2, 10am-3pm, Evered Hall.

Mark your calendars for UFV's annual celebration of student research excellence!

Please come along and show our young researchers your support. You'll be amazed at the breadth of research happening right here at UFV. Everyone welcome!💚

UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · Mar 21

APR 2, 10:30-12:00, CEP Library - Science Cafe: 'Under Pressure: Land Use in the Valley' | Join for a discussion on how hosing, agriculture, industry, & other uses are exerting pressure on dwindling land resources.

UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · Mar 20

Afterwards, be sure to pop along to Student Research Day in Evered Hall to see some great examples of this work.

UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · Mar 20

APR 2, 9am-12pm, A225, Abbotsford | Join the School of Social Work & Human Services for a panel event to learn how social work research drives effective practice & positive change. Registration required forms.office.com/r/2TQSegCc4W

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UFVResearch @ufvresearch.bsky.social · Mar 20

Afterwards, be sure to pop along to Student Research Day in Evered Hall to see some great examples of this work.