When?

May-August 31^st, 2013

• Mondays: 12:00-2:00pm
• Thursdays: 12:00-2:00pm
• Fridays: 11:00am-1:00pm

Where?

Anderson Hall, 112

• When you enter the main doors from parking lot F/FS, turn right immediately. Go through the door and down the hallway.

Why?

• The GSA is here to support you through a variety of services as you complete your graduate studies, and your GSA executives represent you on both a local and provincial level. If you need a U-Pass, would like to take advantage of a Study Carrel Space or various other services, or simply chat about questions or concerns, feel free to drop by!

The GSA 2013-2014 council elections  starts Monday, April 8, 12.00AM and closes Wednesday, April 10, 11.59PM.

Please remember that you have to be logged into the ulgsa.ca website to vote! All Graduate Students have an account created on our website. If you forgot your password for our website, please click on “Forgot Password” and enter your @uleth.ca e-mail address.

Click here to vote.

For any questions, please email: vp.finance@ulgsa.ca or president@ulgsa.ca.

Cheers,

GSA elections committee.

Hello graduate students,

The GSA will be hosting its 7^th annual multidisciplinary research conference – Meeting of the Minds – on Saturday March 16, 2013. As with previous years, registration is completely free and will include breakfast, lunch, a wine and cheese poster session, and a banquet in the evening. We will also be giving out cash prizes for outstanding presentations in a variety of categories.

We invite students from all disciplines and at all levels of study (undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral) to present their research, including research that is currently in progress, either as a poster or a 12-minute talk (pending peer review). See here for more details, including instructions for submitting an abstract. The abstract submission deadline is January 31, 2013.

Cheers,

Your GSA Conference Planning Committee

Meeting of the Minds 2012 Award Winners

Congratulations to all students who presented their research in talk or poster
form at this year’s GSA Multidisciplinary Conference, Meeting of the Minds. All
of the judges were impressed with the high quality of research happening on
campus and the caliber of presentations! This made their jobs very challenging,
but they persevered to choose the best of the best of the day. The winners were:

Oral Presentation Room 1
First place: Jenni Karl (“What can our hands teach us about the brain?”)
Second place: Sean Guist (“The pursuit of beauty in Michel Marc Bouchard’s The
Madonna Painter.”)
Honourable mention: Melissa Thomson (“Between-species differences in the
pathophysiology of the lancet liver fluke (Dicrocoelium dendriticum) in sheep and
cattle.”)

Oral Presentation Room 2
First place tie: Peter Kruczkiewicz (“Genetic fingerprinting analysis of human
pathogens from whole genome sequence data”) and Shah Khaled (“Wireless
Mesh Network Design.”)
Honourable mention: Shelley Gross (“Implicit learning as memory of instances”)

Undergraduate Oral Presentation
First place: Brittany Bannerman (“Sex differences in paraphilic interests.”)

Poster Presentation
First place: Katie Taylor (“The psychosocial impact of HIV on rural Ugandan
widows.”)
Honourable mentions: Scott Seward (“Growth, survival and toxicant accumulation
in rainbow trout in urban stormwater ponds”) and D. Shane Hudson (“Validation
of performance tests for field fitness assessments of seasonal agricultural
workers.”)

The organizing committee would like to commend all of our participants on their excellent research and hope you will join us for Meeting of the Minds 2013.