Monday, June 14, 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

Online

Learn an effective process that ensures your organization is recruiting, interviewing and hiring the best candidates to work for your organization.

The Recruitment and Selection Process teaches practical techniques and strategies that ensure that your organization makes fully informed hiring decisions to build a workforce that matches the organization’s needs.  The course explains the process of recruitment and selection and defines the impact of labour supply and demand on the process.  Participants also learn the importance of ensuring that the hiring process is legal and valid and develop strategies to meet this requirement.  Hands-on exercises will be used to lead participants through interviewing techniques and the process of selection.

https://www.mun.ca/gardinercentre/professional-development-seminars/The-Recruitment-and-Selection-Process

Presented by Grdiner Center

Monday, June 14, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Online

Our unit offers a number of ESL workshops to help Memorial undergraduate students to enhance their speaking and writing skills.

This workshop is available for undergraduate students and will run virtually from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. NDT.

To register, please click here.

Presented by English as a Second Language Program

Tuesday, June 15, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Online

Members of the university community are invited to submit applications to a pair of institutional funds.

Cross-campus Initiatives Fund

The Cross-campus Initiatives Fund builds on existing strategic relationships between Memorial’s campuses.

The fund annually allocates a total of $40,000 over three calls as one-time support for travel for new initiatives that are clearly and demonstrably strategic for the units, falling outside the scope of regular business. Travel must be in accordance with Memorial’s travel policy. The terms of reference for this fund can be found here.

More details on the fund, including guidelines for proposals are available here. Inquiries can be directed to the Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) at 709-864-8246 or via email.

Applications to the Cross-campus Initiatives Fund must be submitted electronically.

Conference Fund

The Conference Fund provides funding for conferences, workshops or seminars that are hosted or co-hosted by Memorial University. Please note, the fund does not provide financial support for employees to travel to such events.

The fund allocates a total of $50,000 annually over three calls, providing one-time support of regular conferences, as opposed to large-scale events.

Terms of reference and a template for submissions are available here. Inquiries can be directed to the Office of the Vice-President (Research) at 709-864-3650 or via email.

Applications to the Conference Fund must be submitted electronically.

June 15 deadline

Applications for both funds are due by Tuesday, June 15.

Please contact your unit’s grants facilitator (or, if the unit has no grants facilitator, the person with signing authority for your unit) to confirm if there are earlier, internal deadlines. These internal deadlines must be factored into the timing of the development and submission of these applications.

Any events or initiatives supported will need to be in line with public health guidelines and provincial regulations related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The portfolios of the Vice-President (Research), Vice-President (Academic), Vice-President (Marine Institute) and Vice-President (Grenfell) support both funds.

Memorial issues a call for applications to both funds three times per academic year (October, February and June).

Presented by Vice-Presidents Council

Tuesday, June 15, 1-2 p.m.

Online

We use the term “implicit bias” to describe when we have attitudes towards people or associate them with stereotypes without our conscious knowledge.

Join Dr. Aimée Surprenant, an expert in the intersection of auditory perception and memory, as she explains how implicit bias affects us and others and what strategies we can employ to overcome it.

Dr. Aimée Surprenant is the Associate Vice-President (Academic) and Dean of Graduate Studies, and Professor in the Department of Psychology. She completed her BA at New York University and her MSc and PhD at Yale University. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association and the Psychonomic Society.

Presented by Office of Alumni Engagement; Faculty of Science; Department of Psychology; and School of Graduate Studies

Wednesday, June 16, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

UC-5000, University Centre

The Student Wellness and Counselling Centre and Employee Wellness, Department of Human Resources is offering a pap clinic on June 16 to all faculty, staff and students on the St. John’s campus and the Marine Institute. Many have not been able to have their regular pap this past year due to COVID-19, so the SWCC is offering pap testing and STI screenings. There is no fee for this service with a valid MCP card or valid out-of-province health care card. Space is limited but future clinics may be added if needed. Appointments are required and can be booked by calling the SWCC at (709) 864-8500 and selecting option 4.

Presented by Student Wellness and Counselling Centre; Employee Wellness, Human Resources

Wednesday, June 16, 10-11 a.m.

Online

Memorial offers over 100 graduate diploma, master’s, and doctoral degree
program options across almost all disciplines. Join us for this free,
interactive webinar in which we’ll cover admission requirements, program
requirements, tuition fees, tips for finding a research supervisor, and advice
on how to submit the best possible application. We’ll also answer any questions
you might have to help you make the right choice on where and how to apply.
Click here
to register.

Offered by the School of Graduate Studies. For more information about graduate
studies at Memorial University, please visit www.mun.ca/masterplan.

Presented by School of Graduate Studies

Wednesday, June 16, 10-11 a.m.

Online

Join the Department of Human Resources along with an expert facilitator from Morneau Shepell to focus on the issues of burnout and learn to identify the symptoms and explore strategies for coping with and avoiding burnout. To register, email Kathleen Wall, wellness consultant, at kwall@mun.ca before June 15.  If you require accommodations, such as ASL interpreting or real-time captioning, email Tina Hickey, at hickeyt@mun.ca

Presented by Department of Human Resources

Wednesday, June 16, 10-11 a.m.

Online

The Brightspace course setup kit has been designed by CITL to provide a starting point to creating your course site. The kit includes pre-formatted pages that you can easily download, edit, and adapt to your specific course needs. This workshop will walk you through the template pages and demonstrate how to customize the various components of the set-up kit to meet your instructional needs.

This session will be hosted in Webex. Registration is required for this event – please follow the link below to register.

*REGISTER*

You can join the session 10 minutes before the start time. It is recommended that you attend this session using one of the following internet browsers:  Chrome, Microsoft Edge (Chromium) or Firefox.

Presented by CITL

Wednesday, June 16, 10-11 a.m.

Online

With the 20th anniversary of 9/11 approaching this September, join us for a panel discussion on the Come From Away phenomenon. Featuring Derm & Diane Flynn, whose real-life experiences were immortalized in the musical; Petrina Bromley, the sole NLer in the Broadway cast; & Alina Sergachov, a grad student researcher from Memorial.

More information here.

Click here to register!

Presented by The Harris Centre; Alumni Engagement

Wednesday, June 16, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Online

Our unit offers a number of ESL workshops to help Memorial undergraduate students to enhance their speaking and writing skills.

This workshop is available for undergraduate students and will run virtually from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. NDT.

To register, please click here.

Presented by English as a Second Language Program

Thursday, June 17, 1-3 p.m.

Online

Department of Chemistry; titled:  Mass Spectrometric Structural Elucidation of Sporopollenin and Lignin

https://mun.webex.com/mun/j.php?MTID=m3ad9088e3871a982a8e26695176245d7

Presented by School of Graduate Studies

Thursday, June 17, 2-4 p.m.

Online

Join us as the top 3MT winners from Eastern Canadian institutions top compete to present their amazing research concisely in just 3 minutes!

See https://mun.ca/sgs/3MT/EasternRegional3MT.php for details and to register to view the competition.

Presented by School of Graduate Studies

Friday, June 18, 2-4 p.m.

Online

Brian Maracles, Kanien’kéha/Mohawk language advocate and teacher, will present. This presentation focuses on the Mohawk adult immersion program on the Six Nations reserve in Ontario; its history, curriculum, methods, results and impact on the community. It highlights a root-word method which the program uses to achieve advanced levels of language proficiency after two years. The presentation also points to the potential for language activists in other regions to achieve similar results using a root-word method and details the program requirements.

Presented by Department of Linguistics