Calling all incoming and returning graduate students!
Join us for an end-of-summer BBQ featuring garden games, a flower station, and other festivities. Come meet your fellow graduate students and staff, have some food, and win some prizes.
New graduate students are invited to join a graduate led campus tour, organized by the UTMAGS, the UTM Association of Graduate Students. The tour departs at 2:00pm from the CCT courtyard following the garden party.
UTMAGS is hosting a Valentine’s Party on Tuesday, February 13th from 6:30 to 8:30pm in the Blind Duck! 💕
For this event, we are extending an invitation so that each grad student can have 1 plus-one.
There will be pasta dishes with vegetarian options, drink ticket, cookie decorating, and painting!
For those of you who would like to enter your beautiful painting into a competition, we will have prizes for the top 3 artists. Students attending the event will vote for their favourite masterpiece. 🎨🖌️
Painting prizes include:
1st place: $100 Amazon gift card
2nd place: $75 Amazon gift card
3rd place: $50 Amazon gift card
* Please note that while we will have enough supplies for plus-ones to participate in the painting activity, only UTM graduate students are eligible to win prizes.
You are all invited to our Holiday Event on Thursday, December 14th from 6:30 to 8:30pm in the Blind Duck on campus 😊❄️⛄️
Please join our event for dinner (including drink ticket), fun and games including an Ugly Sweater Competition and a raffle, where winners will have the chance to win prizes like a Nintendo Switch,iPad Mini, AirPods, Amazon gift cards, and much more!! 💰🎁
Please note, you must be in attendance during the raffle draw. If your name is called during the raffle and you are not present, we will re-draw for a new name. Maximum 1 prize per person and we will re-draw if the same name is called more than once.
All proceeds from the raffle will be donate to SickKids after the event.
Prizes include:
iPad Mini + Apple Pencil
Apple Watch — Series 9
OLED Nintendo Switch + Mario Kart
Airpod Pros — 2nd gen
Nespresso + Coffee Pods
Cineplex Bundle
Beverage Bundle — includes tumbler and a variety of gift cards
Polaroid Printer with Film
*** UGLY CHRISTMAS SWEATER COMPETITION ***
The Ugly Christmas Sweater competition will have prizes for the 1st place, 2nd place, and 3rd place winners! 👕
UTMAGS is partnering with the Office of the Vice-Dean, Graduate to bring you a Graduate Student Social Night! Graduate students from all programs and post-docs are invited to this event happening on Wednesday, November 15th from 6:30 to 8:30pm on campus in the Blind Duck.
We hope you can join us for a fun evening, while getting to know your fellow grad students and post-docs on campus!
Snacks and drink tickets (for alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages) will be provided to all graduate students. 🎟️🥤
We will be hosting our event on Thursday, October 26th from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in the Grad lounge (2068B in Davis Building). So please make sure to save the date and bring your appetite! 🍕
There will be pizza (with vegetarian options), candy, games, and we will also have a Halloween movie playing during our event as well. 🎬
Grad students in attendance will be entered into a raffle to win Amazon gift cards! We will also be giving away prizes for winners of our games at the event. 💸
Calling all incoming and returning graduate students!
Join us for an end-of-summer BBQ featuring garden games, a flower station, and other festivities. Come meet your fellow graduate students and staff, have some food, and win some prizes.
New graduate students are invited to join one of two graduate led campus tours, organized by the UTMAGS, the UTM Association of Graduate Students.
First tour departs at 11:00am. Meet by the Tim Horton’s in the Meeting Place (i.e. the cafeteria of the Davis Building). Second tour departs at 2:00pm from the CCT courtyard following the garden party.
Our Holiday Event is on Thursday, December 15th from 5:30 to 7:30 pmon held campus in the Blind Duck😊❄️⛄️
Please join our in-person event for some fun games including an Ugly Sweater Competition and a raffle, where winners will have the chance to win prizes like a Ipad Mini, Apple Watch, Nintendo Switch, Amazon gift cards, and much more!! 💰🎁
We will be serving up salad, garlic bread, chicken pasta, vegetarian pasta, cookies and you will also get 1 drink ticket!
Please continue reading below to find out how to win some of our great prizes!
*** RAFFLE TICKETS ***
Please check your email for the link to purchase raffle tickets.
Raffle prizes include:
Nintendo Switch
Apple Watch
AirPods
Nespresso
IPad Mini
Polaroid
Tickets are $0.50 or 15 tickets for $5 ($.033/ticket). All money collected will be donated after the raffle. We will be having a vote for which organization to send out donations so stay tuned!
*** UGLY CHRISTMAS SWEATER COMPETITION ***
The Ugly Christmas Sweater competition will have prizes for the 1st place, 2nd place, and 3rd place winners! Please wear your sweaters proudly to the event. Students will vote for their favourite sweater during the event and we will announce the winners at the end 👕
We will be hosting our event on Thursday, October 27th from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in the Grad lounge (2068B in Davis Building). So please make sure to save the date and bring your appetite!
There will be pizza (with vegetarian options), candy, games, and we will also have a Halloween movie playing during our event as well. 👻
Grad students in attendance will be entered into a raffle to win Amazon gift cards! We will also be giving away prizes for winners of our games at the event. 💸
In collaboration with the Vice-Dean Graduate Office, and the UTM Library, we are excited to invite you to this year’s UTM Graduate Student Research Colloquium which will be held in-person. This event will be held over two afternoons – Tuesday, May 3rd, from 3:00-5:00 pm will be the poster presentations and Wednesday, May 4th, from 2:00-4:00 pm will be the oral presentations.
At 4:00 pm, special guest speaker, Ron Deibert, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affair and Public Policy, UofT will give a talk titled ‘Tracking the Global Spread and Harms of Digital Espionage’. Please see the attached poster for further details.
Free poster printing will be available, sponsored by the Vice-Dean Graduate Office. IMPORTANT: Please read the attached printing parameters and award’s criteria that were shared by email.
When submitting your abstract please indicate whether you prefer an oral or poster presentation. There are a limited number of oral presentation slots; abstracts not selected for an oral presentation will be given a poster presentation.
All graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are welcome to participate.
The registration deadline is, Friday, April 22nd, by end of day.
You’re invited to celebrate Valentine’s Day with UTMAGS! Join us for an online paint nite on Tuesday, February 15th from 6 to 7:30 PM. There are lots of prizes to be won!
The deadline to register for the event is Friday, January 11th at 11:59 PM, and can be done on Eventbrite by clicking here.
All attendees who attend the entire event will receive an Amazon gift card ($15) to contribute towards supplies. There will be additional opportunities during the event to win additional gift cards! Affordable suppliers of paint supplies include: Walmart and Dollarama
Please bring the following to the event: Canvas (your choice of size), Paint (your choice of paint type), Brushes, Pot of water, Pencil
What will we be painting? You can choose to paint your own design, or if you would prefer a guided tutorial, we will be playing a painting tutorial over Zoom in the background. If you would rather have a guided tutorial, please choose your painting theme preference when signing up and we will play a painting tutorial that matches the majority vote. Options include: Woodland scene, Sunset, Valentine’s Day Theme (heart/flowers), Your own suggestion