Come to Exam Jam, next Monday and Tuesday!

April 9 and 10 at Sid Smith:

* De-stress with a free massage, do some kick boxing, learn meditation, and get free snacks

* Study with your friends and classmates in our open study spaces

* Get study help and learn tips on how to write great exams from the Academic Success Centre

* Attend exam review sessions by your profs or TAs for:  CHM138H1S, CHM139H1S, CSC148H1S, ECO100Y1Y, FSL100H1S and FSL102H1S, MAT136H1S, MAT137Y1Y, MAT157Y1Y, MAT223H1S, POL101Y1Y, PRT100Y1Y, PRT110Y1Y, RLG100Y1Y, SPA100Y1Y

* Stop in to assigned drop-in study rooms for many more courses

This event is FREE and all are welcome!

See the full schedule at http://uoft.me/examjam.

Good luck on your exams!

Exam Jam is coming up in 2 weeks.  Exam Jam is a two-day study-support program running April 9 and 10, featuring a mix of academic and non-academic activities. We have invited instructors from some big 1^st year courses to hold review sessions for students.  There are also study rooms set aside for group study.  The Faculty of Phys Ed and Hart House are organizing fun, physical activities, as well as yoga, meditation and massages!  Academic Success is holding seminars on how to study for multiple choice and essay exams.  Health & Wellness is promoting health eating and habits for academic success.  There will be healthy snacks!  Although the review sessions are primarily for first year courses, the seminars and fun activities are for everyone!!!  And its all FREE!!

Please sign up on our Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/events/353120078059935/

FIRST YEAR
CAMPUS INVOLVEMENT
AWARD RECIPIENTS
2011-12

FEI RAN CHEN

JONATHAN HADAD

FERN RAMOUTAR

Review and Refresh
at Arts and Science Exam Jam 2012 April 9 & 10, at Sidney Smith Hall

Review course material with instructors
Study with your classmates – Improve your study skills.
Eat healthy snacks, do some fun physical activity, Relieve stress!

Sponsored by:

Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education

UofT Food Services

Office of Student Life

Hart House

www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/undergraduate/exam_jam

ExamJamPoster

Congratulations to our newly elected 2012-13 Executive:

Katharine Ball  - President

Sarah Ball

Onaizah Onaizah

Megan O’Neill

Shawn Tian

Congratulations to the following recipients:

William R. Gardner Student Leadership Award

Sima Atri – Winner

Yunqi Mimi Liu – Runner Up

Sudaba Mansuri – Runner Up

Gavin Nowlan Campus Student Leadership Award

Nikhat Nawar – Winner

Samuel Green – Runner Up

Jennifer Seidel – Runner Up

ASSU Executive Elections 2012-13

one (1) President

four (4) Executive Members

Nominations Open:

Monday, February 13 – 10 a.m.

Nominations Close:

Wednesday, March 7th – 5 p.m.

Elections:

Thursday, March 15th – 12 noon

All full-time Arts & Science undergraduates registered on the St. George campus and fee paying members of ASSU are eligible to stand for the position.

Nomination Forms and rules are available at Sidney Smith Hall, Room 1068.

GET INVOLVED!!

Do you know an instructor who is great teacher?  Nominate them for ASSU’s Ranjini Ghosh Excellence in Teaching Award!

Criteria for the Award
The award is made on the basis of excellence in teaching and contributions to undergraduate education. In evaluating nominees, the following criteria are considered:
*Stimulates and challenges students’ intellectual capacity
*Is skillful at communicating the course material to students
*Shows mastery of the subject area
*Is highly accessible to students
*Influences development of students’ intellectual and critical skills
*Does anything else you feel makes them an outstanding educator

Eligibility for the Award
Any instructor who taught or is currently teaching in the 2011-12 academic year is
eligible for nomination. Teaching staff of any rank are considered to be instructors:
Full/Associate/Assistant Professors, Senior Lecturer, Lecturer. Teaching Assistants are not eligible for this award. Nominees must also be published in the ASSU ANTI-CALENDAR.

Nomination forms can be picked up from the ASSU Office or downloaded here – RiniTeachingAward

Deadline is Friday, March 2, 2012, 5 p.m

ASSU is excited to team up with Swapsity (www.Swapsity.ca), to help students convert their assets and skills into a NEW currency, to get what they want and need.

Cash is necessary for some things. When possible, we believe you should save your cash and satisfy your needs and wants by swapping or bartering. Swapping can help reduce student debt by using dormant resources to their full potential.

How? Try trading textbooks instead of using your valuable cash. Swap your pre-loved collectibles, video games or electronics. Exchange skills like website design or social media marketing to build your resume. Rides to campus and tutoring fellow students are also very swap-worthy. Have hobbies like photography? You can even use that as currency!

The student swap portal - www.swapsity.ca/uoft - is the newest addition to ASSU’s many resources aimed at improving the conditions around campus and making U of T more green.

You students are smart enough to know that we need a global shift in thinking and habits if we want to maintain economic and environmental sustainability. Is there a better place to start than U of T? The University of Toronto is a leader among North American schools for sustainability and this is another way for students, faculty, staff and alumni to contribute to the university’s eco-initiatives while saving cash.

We would like to engage you in a conversation about collaborative consumption so you can experience the benefits of swapping and sharing pre-loved items, skills, knowledge, talents and time with each other.

Why use cash or credit cards when you can tap into YOUR own currency? Swap on U of T!

HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED

U of T Student Swap Portal

The U of T student swap portal is an online community for U of T students, professors, staff, and alumni to swap academic and non-academic items and skills with fellow U of T swappers. Check it out here: http://www.swapsity.ca/uoft

ABOUT SWAPSITY

Swapsity, founded by a U of T alumnus, is an online community that fosters collaboration, sustainability, and mindful consumption through barter. Visit our swapping community at www.swapsity.ca to learn more about the world of barter.

The Undergraduate Research Fund has been established, jointly with the Arts & Science Students’ Union (ASSU), to help undergraduate students defray the costs of engaging in research. The purpose of the Fund is to foster research experience at the undergraduate level by providing students with an opportunity to develop a research project of their own, for which there is no other available funding. The Fund should be used for research initiated by students and related to their degree, either through a regular course, an independent study, a research essay, or other academic project supervised by a faculty member. Students may want, for example, to explore in more depth ideas that emerged in a 299Y course, or develop further some implications of the research they have done in a seminar, or undertake the additional research required to turn a final essay into a journal article, etc.

The Fund is open to all Arts & Science students in good academic standing – no minimum GPA is required. Group research is eligible (with a maximum of three students per group). There will be two competitions per year:  November 28, 2011 and March 12, 2012.

For more details, click here.