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3 Minute Thesis
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition challenges graduate students to present their thesis and its significance in just three minutes and one slide.
President's Dream Colloquium
The President's Dream Colloquium brings leading thinkers to SFU and provides an annual forum for intensive interdisciplinary exchange amongst faculty and students.
Your Career Compass
The Your Career Compass workshop series helps graduate students navigate their career options inside or outside of academia.
Book a 1:1 career coaching session to support your career exploration, job search, portfolio development, or future education plans. Coach: Amrit Mundy, Career Education Specialist, Career and Volunteer Services, SFU.
Schedule your session today on myExperience*, SFU’s platform for career appointments, events, jobs, and volunteer opportunities.
*After logging in, you can find 1:1 Grad student career appointments under the Career/Appointment Calendar in the left-hand menu. Be sure to add your appointment to your calendar!
Date/Time
By appointment only
Location
In-person & online
More Events for Grad Students
On Campus
- Tax Information Sessions for International Students | April 2 & April 11 | Zoom
- Trottier Observatory’s 10th Anniversary | Faculty of Science | April 4 & 5
- SFU Café Scientifique: What Brain Mapping Tells Us About Brain Function And Evolution | Faculty of Science | April 29 | 5:00-6:30 (PT) | Zoom
- SFU Science Rendezvous and International Astronomy Day | Faculty of Science | May 10
Off Campus
- FREE Research Data Management (RDM) Jumpstart Spring Training Course | Digital Research Alliance of Canada | May 12 - 16, 2025 | RSVP by April 9 | Online
- GROWW (Guiding interdisciplinary Research On Women's and girls' health and Wellbeing) program | Apply by April 14 | partial scholarship support for some participants
- Mitacs Professional Development Workshops from mastering the elevator pitch, to leadership, project management, and more! Check out their workshop dates from November 2024 through January 2025 by downloading the Excel sheet. Sign up by visiting their website.
Mitacs Workshop schedule (November 2024 - January 2025)
Ongoing
- Indigenous Student Support; Jennifer Reandy is available for counselling support for Indigenous students from Tuesday to Friday.
- Thriving in your role as a TA/TM Online Course: gain resilience skills, identify boundaries in your role as a TA/TM helping students, and overview conditions for well-being in learning environments
- Instructional Skills Workshops (Various dates and deadlines for spring and summer)
- SFU Research Ethics Board runs weekly remote help sessions
- The Mentor Meet Program, available to entrepreneurs in the SFU Community, allows you to connect with mentors at all three SFU Campuses.
- Understanding and Coping with Anxiety and Depression Health & Counselling has a recorded/asynchronous version of their seminar about anxiety and depression. Download and print out the presentation slides and resources.
Additional SFU Events
- April 3All Day
- April 312:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- April 312:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- April 312:30 pm
- April 312:30 pm
- April 31:00 pm - 2:30 pm
- April 32:30 pm
- April 32:30 pm - 4:00 pm