Saturday, 9 July 2016

How to get involved at UBC?

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Why you should get involved at UBC? Make friends :) There are a lot of students, the easiest way to make friends is by getting involved where you all share at least one thing in common.  Gain "leadership" experience. As cliche as this sounds, university is the best time to learn new skills especially things outside of your degree. All it takes...

Thursday, 2 June 2016

Graduation Student Speaker

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What is the graduation class speaker's role? The primary role is to announce the graduating class gift(s) to the university during the ceremony. The AMS has already solicited ideas from the student body and so the gifts have already been decided. The designated speaker will be given the list to read. The second role is to speak briefly about...

Saturday, 16 April 2016

Honours degree or not?

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Honours degree or not? The requirements for Honours differ by major, for official information please refer to the UBC Academic Calendar (http://www.calendar.ubc.ca/Vancouver/index.cfm?tree=12,215,410,404). What is an Honours (MICB) degree?  Essentially it is a way for the university to acknowledge your focus in your specialization...

MICB 401

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MICB 401 (with Dr. Wade Bingle) Course Taken: Tuesday 12:30-2pm lecture, Wednesday 1-5pm lab Format: A typical lab course where you follow the directions in the lab manual. Make sure you have half an hour to go into the lab the day before and after your lab period to set up bacteria cultures/ wrap up an experiment (or have a really...

Friday, 15 April 2016

MICB 448/449

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MICB 448/449 (Directed Studies/ Honours Thesis) Course Taken: September 2015 - April 2016 Class Average for MICB 449: 95% (Note: there were only 5 students taking the course) Format: Self-directed project...

MICB 406

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MICB 406 (with Dr. Francois Jean, Dr. Marc Horwitz) Course Taken: T/Th 11-12:30pm (January 2016 - April 2016) Format: Dr. Jean lectures half the term, then Dr. Horwitz lectures the end. The goal of this course is to write a paper about viruses in the style of PLoS Pathogens PEARLS (http://collections.plos.org/s/pearls) for each...

Saturday, 30 January 2016

MICB 306

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MICB 306 (with Dr. Danielle Krebs, Dr. Francois Jean) Course Taken: MWF 12-1pm (September 2015 - December 2015) Format: Dr. Krebs lectures half the term, then Dr. Jean lectures the end. Dr. Krebs' section primarily focuses on general life cycles of viruses using certain viruses as case studies. Dr. Jean talks specifically about...
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