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Do you want to give back to YOUR community?

Organizing Support for Charity (OSC) is a student-initiated endeavour founded at the University of British Columbia. Formed in July of 2008, its roots stemmed from a group of individuals with a passion to give back to the community.

At the beginning of every year, OSC chooses a new local charity - one different from previous years and preferably focused on helping the community - to lend its support to. Throughout the year, OSC organizes events in order to promote awareness of this charity, and help spread its message to the community. The money generated from these events is in turn donated back to the charity at the end of the year. Past partner charities include Quest food exchange, BC Children’s Hospital Foundation and Richmond Fruit Tree Sharing Project.

OSC is looking for enthusiastic first year students to join as one of part of our first year representative team! If interested, please visit http://osc-group.org/apply or email [email protected] for more information.

DEADLINE: SEPT 18, 2010 at 11:59pm

The department is currently recruiting mentees and mentors for the tri-mentoring program. If you are a 1st or 2nd year student, you will be matched with a 3rd or 4th student, who in turn will be matched with an industry or faculty mentor. Joining the program is a great way for you to hone your communications, networking and job search skills.

If you are interested, please come to our info session and orientation on September 13. You will be learning more about the benefits and structures of the program and how it integrates with other professional skills workshops we are offering this coming academic year. We will also be giving you some training in networking and communication skills and providing you with information on how to apply to the program.

When:

Monday, September 13, 2010 - 17:00 to 18:30

Where:

DMP 110

For years one of the most popular services that the CSSS has provided has been the provision of cheap drinks and snack foods to the student body. While we endeavor to the best of our ability to continue this service, the recent introduction of the HST by the government of BC has forced us to re-evaluate our prices.

In the next week or so you may notice that prices of certain items will be higher than before. Whilst we are aware that this change will be unpopular, our prices are still cheaper than the vending machines and food service locations on campus. We hope that you understand our decision and will continue to frequent the CSSS clubroom and support our society.

Thank you,

The CSSS Executive

I’m a student at UBC (in the Arts faculty) looking to hire a fellow student majoring in computer science to help with a database and website project. The custom MS Access database currently handles customer profiles/orders, invoicing, payment tracking, reports, and inventory. Some new forms need to be created (mainly by importing from Excel). I also need to connect MS Word or PDF fillable forms (questionnaires) to the database (or to find a practical solution for emailing clients fillable questionnaires or designing web forms that can be easily imported into the database). In general, the database needs some updating to handle additional operations and fix a few glitches. This job may lead to a larger project, which would involve designing a software program to handle patient files for a holistic health clinic. Additional tasks may include: website development, website-database integration, and search engine optimization. This job is ideal for a student looking to build their portfolio with work experience/references.

The successful candidate will have a strong knowledge of MS Access databases and ideally he/she will be highly proficient in: software development, web development (HTML, PHP, CSS, DreamWeaver, CMS), and MySQL. Also, knowledge about decoding databases would be helpful, as I would like to integrate data from an encoded (read-only) database.

Interested students can forward their CV and hourly rate to <ammartn[at]interchange.ubc.ca>. Interviews will be conducted on campus.

ENTER TO WIN A SEARS VOUCHER FOR $200!

Welcome back to a new university year!

My Office (the eHealth Strategy Office here at UBC), together with the Department of Computer Science and School of Nursing, are looking at the potential for setting up various educational opportunities for health informatics education. The goal is to identify whether or not there exists a demand long-term applied, professional development and research programs in eHealth/health informatics here at UBC and what format these programs should take. As part of the project, the views of potential students, industry, government and academic experts will be sought around potential health informatics educational offerings and the expected capabilities of graduates from these programs.

I would like to invite you to participate via an online survey, which should take approximately 30 minutes to complete, your views and thoughts on the current field of eHealth/health informatics and the education provided within this field. Your input into this project would be highly valued, given your study in an area of the health sciences and as a potential user of various health informatics tools and techniques upon graduation. The purpose of this study is to (a) explore the demand and sustainability for short courses and an applied and research postgraduate program in eHealth/health informatics; and (b) determine the expectations of concepts, skills, and knowledge that individuals completing the program would be required to possess. Full details of the project and procedures are in the attached document.

If you choose to participate, please complete the online survey at <http://ipehealth.med.ubc.ca/Page2214.aspx>. Please complete the survey by mid-September. Survey participants have the chance to enter a draw to win a Sears voucher to the value to $200.

Many thanks in advance for your valued input into potential UBC eHealth/Health Informatics programs!