Faculty of Science Advising Session Science students, do you have questions? We have answers! Join us at our upcoming integrated advising event on Friday, March 6th from 11:00am-1:00pm in LSC Room 2097 & 2098 (1st year BIOL lab rooms). This event brings together first-year advisors from all of the different departments within the Faculty of Science to give students a ‘one stop shop’ for advising before registration opens on March 17th.
Attention grad students, postdocs, and professors! Are you interested in exploring the commercial potential of your research?
The new Lab2Market pilot program, run by Dalhousie, Ryerson, and Memorial Universities, will provide training and support to teams looking to commercialize research emerging from Canadian universities. The focus of the program is to get teams 'out of the lab', talking to customers, partners, competitors, and testing hypothesis to determine if, and what, the commercial potential of a lab-based project or technology is. This is based on the highly successful I-Corps program funded by the US National Science Foundation.
The first Dalhousie cohort will run Sept. 21 - Nov. 6, 2020, with applications due by May 31, 2020. Teams are to consist of a junior researcher (current graduate student, recent graduate, or postdoc), a senior researcher (Principal Investigator), and a business mentor (Lab2Market can assist in finding one). The program involves a 4-day kickoff workshop, followed by a 5 week incubation period with weekly mentoring meetings, and ending with a 2-day closing workshop. Team be awarded $15,000 CAD to cover costs and allow the junior researcher to focus full-time on Lab2Market for 4 months.
As a partner in this program, SURGE will be hosting a drop-in info session (with pizza!) on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. The presentation will be held twice, once at noon and once at 12:30, in the SURGE sandbox, LSC Oceanography 2660. There will be opportunities to ask questions and meet with representatives from the program. Please see the Lab2Market website for more information on the program. Feel free to bring any questions you have to the info session.
SURGE Neurohack - March 13-15
Join SURGE for a weekend long, hands on event exploring EEG and Brain Computer Interface. Kicking off on Friday March 13 at 5:00 pm, participants will learn about EEG and BCI as they form teams and work on projects in one of three categories: application, machine learning or hardware. We will finish the event on Sunday with teams pitching their ideas to a panel of judges in which the top three ideas could win Amazon e-gift cards!
1st place: $750 (split among team members)
2nd place: $500 (split among team members)
3rd place: $250 (split among team members)
No prior experience or knowledge necessary as we will give you a crash course and have mentors on hand to help out throughout the weekend. This is a great event to learn more about this technology and to add to your CV for future careers goals – be it academia or industry. This event is in partnership with Brain Awareness Week and is FREE for all. Food will be included. Find more info and register here.
Would you like to make a submission to the Dean's Office Dispatch? Email communications.science@dal.ca with a brief summary of your notice, a supporting link or email address, and a photo/image if you have one.
IMPORTANT DATES
March 4 Fall and Winter 2020/2021 timetable will be available.
March 9
Deadline to re-apply for residence for students who want to keep their room, or move to another residence of their choice.
March 16
Registration opens for returning and transfer students in the Faculties of Agriculture, Architecture & Planning, Engineering, Graduate Studies, Health and Journalism
March 17
Registration opens for returning and transfer students in the Faculties of Arts & Social Science, Computer Science, Management and Science (Check Your Registration Status for time)
