EEBU UPDATE: Response to COVID-19

In response to recent developments in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, The University of Toronto has cancelled all classes until Friday April 3rd. We at EEBU are deeply concerned about the health of our students, and we will therefore also be altering our activities in the following ways:

  1. Regular EEBU office hours are cancelled for the remainder of the year (until April 3rd). If you would like to get in touch with us, or make arrangements for a meeting, please send us an email (eebu.mail@gmail.com), or reach out to us on Facebook or Instagram (@eebu.uoft).
  2. Following U of T reccomendations, EEBU will not be holding academic seminars or social events until further notice.
  3. Clothing orders are still proceeding as planned. The apparel is being manufactured locally, on campus at the University of Toronto Bookstore. When the orders are ready, we will organize on-campus pick-up times. We will continue to post updates on clothing orders, so keep a look out!
  4. Spring 2020 elections will proceed. Application and voting will occur online. More details to come!

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us:

eebu.mail@gmail.com

@eebu.uoft

https://www.facebook.com/UofTEEBU

EEBU wishes you a happy, healthy, and safe remainder of the year!

EEBU’S 2019-2020 Logo Design Competition

EEBU is looking for a design to be featured on its 2019-2020 apparel line (and possibly some other products too), and we’re looking for creative EEB students to help! If you have a great idea for an EEB-themed logo, please send us your design!

5 top entries will be chosen by the EEBU exec team. Members of EEB will be able to vote for their favourite of the 5 entries, and the two designs with the most votes will be featured on our 2020 apparel! Winners will receive a free sweater featuring their design.

To submit, please use this submission form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FzvUFcaIxUMFrE6-l2kZSbYJYXIdEKv9o4cSuHpa0yU/viewform?edit_requested=true

Design Contest!

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EEBU needs a design to be featured on our 2019 apparel line (and possibly some other products too!), and we’re looking for creative EEB students to help! If you have a great idea for an EEB-themed logo, please send us your design!

HOW TO ENTER:
Submit your entries by JANUARY 19, 2019 to our Google Form: https://goo.gl/forms/dBtvJN2z02Dsc1cx1

5 top entries will be chosen by the EEBU exec team, and presented in a vote on the EEBU Facebook page. Members of EEB will be able to vote for their favourite of the 5 entries, and the two designs with the most votes will be featured on our 2019 apparel! Winners will receive a free t-shirt featuring their design.

CONTEST RULES:
In order to participate in this competition, you should be a U of T student or faculty member, and have completed at least one EEB course.

Your design should include the words “EEBU”, “EEB”, or “Ecology & Evolutionary Biology”, and should be at least 2000 by 2000 pixels in size. Please submit your design as a JPEG or PNG file. You may submit a maximum of 3 designs.

SUBMISSIONS CLOSE JANUARY 18, 2019.

EEBU x EGSA Presents: Graduate Panel

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Wed Jan 16| 4:30-6:00 pm| RW 432

Are you thinking of applying to post-undergraduate programs next year? The EEBU & EGSA will be hosting a Q&A panel featuring grad students from the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department.

Topics that will be discussed include:
– The application process
– Finding a supervisor
– Deciding on a program
– Starting graduate school
– Different paths to graduate school
– Navigating graduate school with different identities
– And more!

Come ask questions and learn about the grad-school application process from our panel of wonderful EEB grad students! Light refreshments and snacks will be provided.

Darwin Day Tomorrow!!!

Take a break from studying and come out to a couple of fantastic lectures to celebrate Darwin Day!

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Thurs. Feb 23 at 7pm, Koffler House
Josephine Pemberton, Edinburgh
Darwin Lecture: Life on the edge: Evolutionary studies of wild deer
and sheep in the Hebrides, Scotland
Everyone, including the public, are welcome!

Fri. Feb 24 at 3:00 in ESC B142
Josephine Pemberton, Edinburgh
Title: Using genomic data to investigate the genetics of quantitative traits in the wild
Host: John Stinchcombe

EEBU Care Package Handouts

Congrats! You’ve made it through another semester at the University of Toronto! The EEB Union would like to reward you!

On Wednesday December 7th, we’re going to be giving away Care Packages to students who drop by our office. The care packages will include a number of goodies (cookies, bee-friendly native plant seeds, and more) and all you have to do is tell us why you love EEB!

We look forward to seeing you this Wednesday!

NOTE: Due to the limited amount of packages, we ask that only EEB program majors receive the free gifts. Sorry to everyone else 🙁

 

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EEBU Apparel Design Choices

Time to choose the designs for your EEBU 2017 apparel!

The rules are simple: the two designs with the most “Likes” on our Facebook page by the end of the voting period will be offered as both t-shirts and sweaters in our upcoming apparel sale. Winning designs will be digitalized on the apparel.

Voting closes at the end of the week (Sunday, December 11th).

Be sure to head on over to our Facebook Page to start liking!!