News for Undergraduate Students

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November 2024 UTM Anthropology News for Undergraduate Students

Please bookmark this page and check it regularly throughout the year! We will update the page regularly throughout the Fall and Winter terms.

Featuring news, opportunities, reminders, and updates for students enrolled in UTM Anthropology programs. Questions may be directed to communications.utmanthro@utoronto.ca.

Student research posters presented at annual symposium of the OAS

Congratulations to undergraduate students Carly Ward and MacKayla Perry-Wessler, who presented research posters at the 51st Annual Symposium of the Ontario Archaeological Society, held October 25 to 27, 2024, in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The posters are based on their ongoing work with the Schreiber Wood Project collections, and be viewed on our website.

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Student profiles: meet the UTMAS team for 2024-25!

If you aren't following the UTM Anthropology Society on Instagram, you might have missed their "Meet the Team" profiles! Check out the 2024-25 executive members' favourite anthropology courses!

UTMAS on Instagram

Funding and award opportunities

Undergraduate Student Experience Fund

  • Application deadline: 11:59pm on November 18, 2024. 
  • Are you planning to participate in a conference, a professional development opportunity, or a non-UTM field school? If you are currently enrolled in a UTM Anthropology program, you can apply for a grant from the Undergraduate Student Experience Fund to help cover some of your costs.

Undergraduate Student Experience Fund

The Snil “Sunny” Sahanan Memorial Scholarship

  • Applications (including application form and essay or other coursework) must be submitted by Monday, December 2, 2024 at 9:00 AM EST.
  • The 2024-25 award has an approximate value of $1,215.05 CAD.
  • Students must be enrolled in a UTM Anthropology program (specialist, major, or minor).

Snil "Sunny" Shanan Memorial Scholarship

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Events

UTMAS presents

Grad App Graduate School Information Session with Professor Alicia Hawkins

Wed. Nov. 20, 2024 from 3-5pm in DV2045

  • Do you have questions about applying to graduate studies?
  • Do you wonder if graduate school is right for you?
  • Want to learn about career paths after grad school?

Come to this session! Join Prof. Alicia Hawkins and UTMAS to learn the answers to your questions.

View event on UTMAS Instagram

Gradd App info session

Curious about what a research degree can do for you? The UTM Undergraduate Research Students Association is excited to bring you “Beyond Academia” 

Wednesday, November 13, 2024 from 5:00 PM - 6:40 PM at IB150 (Instructional Building)

This panel event features U of T grad students and alumni who have unique, alternative careers to give YOU an idea of what else you can do apart from academia. Guest speakers include: 

  • Diaa Abdallah, 5th-year PhD student with the Gunning Group. 
  • Kareem Abdur-Rashid, Co-Founder and Director of Kare Chemical Technologies Inc.
  • Raquel De Souza, Director of Partnerships & Innovation here at UTM and the Founder and Director of SpinUp.

Register and and check out @ursa_utm on Instagram for more information.

UTMAS YAPS SESH -Young Anthropology Program Study Session

  • 5-7 p.m. every second Thursday starting October 10, 2024 in DH2070
  • The next two dates are November14 and December 12. 

Anthropology students of all years are more than welcome to come for the full time or drop in! This event is a great space for studying, networking, asking program questions, and meeting like-minded anthropology students.

View UTMAS Instagram

Are you interested in creative accessibility practices?

The Blackwood presents the Whole World in our Hands Open Research Forum at UTM on November 13, 2024.

This public forum includes four workshops and a response that foreground multivalent experiences of access, including its sounds, scents, motions, and textures. 

  • Free to attend
  • Food and refreshments provided
  • All sessions will have ASL interpretation

Open Research Forum

Career resource: "How Can Anthropologists Prepare for Careers in AI?"

With conversations about artificial intelligence abounding, an article on the Global Anthropology Project website includes the following practical advice:

  • "Develop versatile skillsets: Complement qualitative expertise with skills like data science, analytics, and digital fluency. Technical versatility is key.
  • Collaborate across disciplines: Seek opportunities to collaborate with technical teams like data scientists.Blend qualitative and quantitative methods.
  • Maintain humanistic perspective: Uphold anthropology’s core strength in balancing ethics, social context, and human needs with business outcomes in deploying AI.
  • Commit to lifelong learning: Continually learn about new and evolving AI capabilities and how business applies them. Dedicate time to experiment with emerging tools.
  • Bring an entrepreneurial mindset: Look for opportunities to build multi-disciplinary products and services at the intersection of anthropology and AI. Lead the way in humanizing technology."

Source: The Global Anthropology Project

The CARE lab at OISE/UofT is looking for first-year students to participate in a study on the transition to university!

For filling out the three surveys, you can receive up to $60. You can participate in this study if you are:  

  • Ages 17-25 years old 
  • Currently first-year students at the University of Toronto, and live in Toronto (or greater Toronto area)

If you are interested in participating in this study, please email oise.transition2university@utoronto.ca 

If you have additional questions about the study, please feel to reach out to the principal investigator, Dr. Chloe Hamza (chloe.hamza@utoronto.ca). The CARE Lab (Coping, Affect & Resilience in Education) is based out of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. 

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