Office of Research and Graduate Studies Drop-in Coffee Time
Full Professor Inaugural Lecture: Andrea Soberg, “Is it critical for organizations to achieve equilibrium between their demand for and supply of labour? Is workforce balance really that important for competitiveness?”
Undergrad Research Academy: Lunch and Learn: “Prepare For An Interview”
Undergrad Research Academy: Lunch and Learn: “Write Your Resume”
Graduate Studies Open House
Glow with the Flow
Gender Studies Institute Annual Lecture, Dr. Allyson Jule
The Leader’s Series Public Lecture, “The Advanced Art of Market Segmentation: Do you Really Know your Audience?”
Office of Research and Graduate Studies Drop-in Coffee Time
Faculty Professional Development Workshop: “Designing Learning Experiences to Improve Student Writing”
Humanitas Anabaptist-Mennonite Centre presents, a free lecture, “Menno Simons' Role in the Reformation”
SAMC Theatre and Gender Studies Institute presents, a film Screening, “She Has a Name”
Nursing Networking Café: “Negotiated Practice: An Anthropologist’s Perspective of Hospital Palliative Care”
Nursing Networking Café
CANIL Colloquium, “A tale of two worlds: A comparative study of language ecologies in Asia and the Americas”
CAN-AM Football Game
Office of Research and Graduate Studies Drop-in Coffee Time
Undergrad Research Academy: Lunch and Learn: “People Still Blog and Why you Should Too: Narrating your Research”
Biology 410 Thesis Class, Guest Lecture, Dave Hansen, “Regulation of Stem Cell Proliferation in the C. elegans Germ Line”
Thesis Supervisor Workshop for Faculty
Graduate Studies Info Session
Office of Research and Graduate Studies Drop-in Coffee Time
A Night of Stories
TWU Refuge Response Initiative Event, “A Night of Stories, featuring Tima Kurdi, refugee advocate, and three Langley-area youth who arrived in Canada as refugees.”
Undergrad Research Academy, Lunch and Learn, “Examining the dominant effects of an Akap200”
Faculty Professional Development Workshop, “A blue-collar academic’s crack at formative assessment: Guiding students through a research proposal assignment”, “How Formative Feedback can Transform Student Learning”
Pre-Med Panel
GENDER STUDIES INSTITUTE EVENT, DR. ABBY DAY, READER IN RACE, FAITH AND CULTURE, ´ GENDER, GENERATION AND THE FUTURE OF CHRISTIANITY: UK/CANADA PERSPECTIVES”
TWU Faith and Science Club and the TWU Department of Geography and Environment Presents, “The Necessity of Death”
TWU English Department Presents, “Celebrating Story: Creative Responses to the Fiction of George MacDonald”
Celebrating Story: “Creative Responses to the Fiction of George MacDonald”
TWEA Earth Week and the TWU Department of Geography and Environment Presents, Star Gazing
TWEA Earth Week and the TWU Department of Geography and Environment Presents, Community Garden Tour
TWU Faith and Science Club and the TWU Department of Geography and Environment Presents, “Adam and the Genome: An Evening with Dennis Venema and Scot McKnight”
Nursing Networking Café, Landa Terblanche, "Transitioning from Student to RN"
TWEA Earth Week and the TWU Department of Geography and Environment Presents, “Earthtones”
TWU Faith and Science Club and the TWU Department of Geography and Environment Presents, “Adam and the Genome: An Evening with Dennis Venema and Scot McKnight”
Faculty Professional Development Workshop, “Guiding Meaningful Discussions to Improve Learning”
New Testament Exegesis (ACTS), Special Lecture, Dr. Steve Runge, “Recent Attempts to Understand the Aspect and Discourse Functions of Perfect Tense Forms in the New Testament”
TWU Human Resources Presents, “Faith, Life and Leadership: The Power of Story”
International Woman's Day Special Event
SFU’s Philosophers’ Café & Inklings Institute of Canada/Department of English Event, “Mythology and Science: Intersections”
Office of Research and Graduate Studies Drop-in Coffee Time
Undergrad Research Academy, Lunch and Learn
Faculty Professional Development, “Preparing for Tenure and Promotion”
Linguistics Colloquium (CanIL), Danny Foster, “English is Now Indeed the Language of the World”
CAN AM Flag Football
SAMC Theatre + SAMC Music present Jane Eyre: The Musical
Undergrad Research Lunch and Learn, “How to Write a Research Paper”
Conference, “Catholics and Evangelicals: What can we Learn From Each Other?”
SFU’s Philosophers’ Café & Inklings Institute of Canada/Department of English Event
MSN Thesis Defense, “Using cognitive interviews to evaluate the four-item dyadic sexual communication scale in couples who might benefit from a palliative approach”
Undergrad Research Lunch and Learn, “Academic Integrity”
Masters of Science in Nursing Thesis Defence: “Living well with long term type 1 diabetes”
Undergrad Research Lunch and Learn, “Academic Integrity”
Undergrad Research Lunch and Learn, Movie: "Piled Higher and Deeper"
Undergrad Research Lunch and Learn
Undergrad Research Lunch and Learn, “How to REALLY read a Research Paper”
George Marsden Workshop
Undergrad Research Lunch and Learn
Undergrad Research Lunch and Learn
Faculty Retreat, Cedar Springs Conference Centre, “Rejuvenation and Reconciliation”
Inklings Institute of Canada Presents, “Transhumanism Discussion”
Chemistry Research Seminar, “"Underground Supermarket: How Mycorrhizal Fungi Feed Plants"
Book Launch – “What Teachers Need to Know: Topics in Diversity and Inclusion”, by Matthew Etherington, School of Education, TWU
MA Counselling Psychology Thesis Defense
Guest Lecture in Statistics, “Statistical Modelling of Data in the Presence of Latent Variable with Applications to Energy Consumption Data and Cancer Genomics”
TWU Faith and Science Club, Institute of Christian Apologetics, and Canadian Scientific and Christian Affiliation Present, Stream and Faculty Panel, “Is God a Figment of our Imagination?”
Inaugural Lecture - Mapping the Uncharted World of the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls: The Canonical, Conceptual, and Cultural Impact of Understudied Ancient Texts
Flourishing Project Presents, “Science, Faith and Human Flourishing: Conversations in Community at TWU, 2018-2019
Gender Studies Institute Gender Café, “#beyondmetoo; what’s next?”
Flourishing Project Presents, “Science, Faith and Human Flourishing: Conversations in Community at TWU, 2018-2019 “– Alister McGrath, Live Streamed Lecture
MA Interdisciplinary Humanities Thesis Defence, “Fiction in the Integrated Circuit”
CanIL Colloquium, Andy F, Presents, “For Heaven’s Sake! Notions of Accuracy and Audience in Rendering ‘Third Heaven’ (2 Corinthians 12:2)”
Flourishing Project Presents, “Science, Faith and Human Flourishing: Conversations in Community at TWU, 2018-2019” – ‘From the Dust’
Inklings Institute of Canada, "Allegory in Narnia, or being Edmund and finding Jesus"
Peace Heroes in Unexpected Places: How children in Palestine, Israel, Iraq, Burundi, Kenya, and South Africa are changing the world
MA Special Education Thesis Defence, “ An Inquiry into Services for Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Between Diagnosis and Service Assembly”
Part I -Workshop on Graduate Scholarships, “Ready. Set. Research”
Inklings Institute of Canada: Book Night: The Tao of Right and Wrong: Rediscovering Humanity’s Moral Foundations
Adult Degree Info Session
TWU School of Business Signature Alumni Evening, with Guest, Terry Small, the Brain Guy, “How to Lead with your Brain”
Late Course Withdrawal (Weeks 3-6) Deadline
TWU English Department and MAIH Present, A Symposium “Thomas Merton: A Monk for Our Times: Being Human in a Cyborg World”
The Canadian Scientific and Christian Affiliation as well as TWU's Science, Faith, & Human Flourishing Initiative Host, Live Streamed from Regent College, Bruce Hindmarsh, "Re- enchanting the Universe: Evangelicals and the Rise of Science"
“Nursing Network Café, Musings about Environments of Care: What we Know About Nurses’ Workplaces and Students’ Clinical Learning Environments”
TWU's Religious Studies Department, ACTS/Pickford Chair, and The Canadian Scientific and Christian Affiliation as well as TWU's Science, Faith, & Human Flourishing Initiative Host, Craig Allert - "Early Christian Readings of Genesis One: Patristic Exegesi
MS Nursing thesis defence: "Avoiding Futility: How Nurses and Physicians Experience Emotions, Psychosocial Factors, and Their Professional Roles as Influencing the End-of-life Decision-Making Process”
We Are Singers/We Are Song: SAMC Choirs perform with VCC
The Canadian Scientific and Christian Affiliation as well as TWU's Science, Faith, & Human Flourishing Initiative Host, Myron Penner - “The Bible, Science, & Human Flourishing: Exploring the Role of Scripture in Shaping a Christian View of the World"
Pre-Registration Week for Spring 2019 Course Selection
Office of Teaching and Learning, Reading Group, “Spiritual Formation”
Office of Teaching and Learning, Reading Group, “Hospitality & Inclusion”
Adult Degree Info Session
SAMC Concert Band + Orchestra: Unfinished
SAMC Concert Band + Orchestra: Unfinished
Linguistics: Advanced Grammar Term Paper Poster Presentations
TWU’s “Science Faith and Human Flourishing” Initiative and the Canadian Scientific and Christian Affiliation, host, “Science, Faith and the Original Sin”
Linguistics: Advanced Grammar Term Paper Poster Presentations
TWU’s “Science Faith and Human Flourishing” Initiative and the Canadian Scientific and Christian Affiliation, host, Livestream of Regent College Interface Series, “Beyond ‘Design’: Evolutionary Biology and a Theology of Preservation”
Christmas at the Chan
TWU’s Office of Teaching and Learning Professional Learning Opportunity, “Thérèse of Lisieux: Communicating Love and Hospitality to Difficult People”
TWU School of Nursing Presents, “Nursing Networking Café, Dr. Sonya Jakubec, “Pilgrimage, Sanctuary, and the Place of Parks and Nature in Palliative and Grief Care”
MA Counselling Psychology thesis defence: "Going Through a 24-hour box: How Women’s Experiences of Childbirth Shape Their Embodied Sense of Self”
MA Counselling Psychology thesis defence: "Going Through a 24-hour box: How Women’s Experiences of Childbirth Shape Their Embodied Sense of Self”
Fraser Health Authority Stakeholders Workshop, TWU’s Dr. Rick Sawatzky, Canada Research Chair in Person-Centred Outcomes, is the Methods Cluster Lead
MA Biblical Studies Thesis Defence: “Reading the Text with its Ancient Audience as a Refinement of Narrative Criticism: The Amnon and Tamar Narrative as a Test Case”
Robert Mann, Professor of Physics, University of Waterloo, Luncheon, “Reflections on Science and Faith”
Robert Mann, Professor of Physics, University of Waterloo, Public Lecture, “Time and Eternity”
Inklings Institute of Canada and Gender Studies Institute; “Are Women Human?: Dorothy L. Sayers”
Co-Sponsored by CACA, TWU Psychology Department, ACTS and MA Counselling Psychology , Hosts, Mark McMinn, George Fox University
Mark McMinn, Professor of Psychology George Fox University, Faculty Luncheon, “Growing in Wisdom: Good Things Happen When Science and Faith Work Together”
Gender Studies Institute “Gender Café: Nature and Nurture: Psychological Perspectives on Sex and Gender”
Dead Sea Scrolls Institute and Canada Research Chair in Religious Identities of Ancient Judaism and Dead Sea Scrolls Host, Public Lecture, “Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls (Mandarin)”
Sponsored by TWU’s Department of History and the Gender Studies Institute, Public Lecture in Honour of Black History Month, Judith Kasiama (Juju Milay), “Do White People Dominate the Outdoors?”
Dr. Rick Sawatzky, Canadian Research Chair
Full Professor Inaugural Lecture, Karen Steensma, “Growing Where You are Planted; A Life of Place Based Research”
TWU’s N. M. Alloway Library and Learning Commons Host, “Paywall: The Business of Scholarship”
Lunch and Learn, “A Squirmy Summer: The Exploration of unc-53 in C. elegans”
Full Professor Inaugural Lecture, Matthew Etherington
ACTS Seminaries, The John H. Pickford Chair of Theology and TWU’s Religious Studies Department Host, Theology Conference, “Seeing God: Human Desire for the Beatific Vision”
Undergrad Research Lunch and Learn: "Professional Profile Picture"
“Evolutionary and Young-Earth Creationism: Two Separate Lectures”
“The Fool, the Heretic, and the God Whose Standard is Love: A Disagreement Between Biologists, Todd Wood and Darrel Falk”
Colloquium, Paul Unger, “Naked nuts, light jumpers, and ‘heavy’ sounds: Reduplication and anti-antigemination in Doku [lgr]”
Inklings Institute of Canada: “The Perilous Lot of the Christian Artist.” Dr. Stephen Dunning
Launch Party, [spaces], TWU’s Literary Journal
I Have Had Singing: Masterworks Chorus
I Have Had Singing: Masterworks Chorus
Facing Pressures To Confrom - Understanding the World of our Young People
MSN Thesis Defense, “What characteristics are keeping nurses flourishing in difficult environments: an appreciative inquiry study”
TWU’s Human Services Certificate Program and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Host, “USERVE Practicum and Career Connection”
Nursing Networking Café, “Interprofessional Practice in Clinical Education: How Do we do it?"
Linguistics Colloquium, Ben Kuwitzky, “Ambiguity as a Translation Value”
20th Annual Mel Smith Lecture & Scholarship Presentation
Lunch & Learn: “The Effect of Manuka Honey and Reactive Oxygen Species on Staphylococci and Their Small Colony Variants”
TWU’s ‘Science, Faith, and Human Flourishing: Conversations in Community“ Initiative
ACTS Seminaries and Institute of Christian Apologetics, Host, Free, Fireside Apologetics, Dr. Paul Chamberlain, “Why Do People Stop Believing and What Can We Do About it?”
The Geneva Society for Reformational Worldview Studies at TWU Host, Public Lecture, Jim Mullins, “Gardening in Babylon: Work, Calling, and Reimagining the Mundane”
Spring Graduation
Book Launch, Bruce Guenther, PhD, “The Altester- Herman D.W. Friesen, A Mennonite Leader in Changing Times”
ACTS Seminaries and Institute of Christian Apologetics, Present, Free, Fireside Apologetics, Dr. Paul Chamberlain, “Why Do People Stop Believing and What Can we Do About it?”
ACTS Open House, “ACTS Seminaries Story Camp Openhouse”
TWU’s School of Education hosts, Film Viewing, “Screenagers: Growing Up in the Digital Age”
MA LEAD 5th Community of Practice Event, “The Intergenerational Workplace”
Canadian Bioethics Society Presents, “Lightening Ethics”
Undergrad Research Conference, 3MT Competition
SAMC Music presents: From The New World
SAMC Music presents: From The New World
24 Hour Theatre
Adult Degree Completion Info Session
TWU Graduate Studies Info Session
TWU’s Master of Science in Nursing Program Hosts, “Nursing Networking Café”
Acting Showcase
Master of Theological Studies Thesis Defense, Christopher Christiansen, “Was Jesus a Mythical Figure? A Response to the Charge that Jesus of Nazareth Never Existed”
TWU’s Master of Arts in Biblical Studies Hosts, Thesis Defense, “Cinematic Childhood(s) and Imag(in)ing the Boy Jesus: Adaptations of Luke 2:41-52 in Late Twentieth-Century Film”
TWU’s Master of Arts in Biblical Studies Hosts, Thesis Defense, “Northern Psalms in Southern Contexts: Defining an Historical Setting for the Psalms of Asaph”
TWU School of Nursing Hosts, Faith and Nursing Conference, “Inspiring Person-Centredness: A Call to Action”
Rick Sawatzky, PhD, Canada Research Chair Renewal/ Inaugural Lecture Celebration
Public Presentation, Featuring TWU’s School of Nursing Professor and Research Scientist, Dr. Richard Sawatzky, Canada Research Chair in Person-Centred Outcomes
MA CPSY Thesis Defense, Marnie Venema, “Grieving in Community: Accompanying Bereaved Parents”
THESIS DEFENCE: Danielle Palmer, “A Voice Centered Relational Inquiry Into Sexual Assault”
THESIS DEFENCE: Vanessa Bork, “Intergenerational Voices of Adoption”
THESIS DEFENCE: Sharon Macfarlane, “Integrating Ego Identity in An Adult Third Culture Kid with Lifespan Integration Therapy: A Reflexive Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design”
INKLINGS INSTITUTE COFFEE HOUSE Malcolm Guite: “The Word Made Fresh: Art, Faith, and a Flourishing Culture”
Adult Degree Completion Info Session
Adult Degree Completion Info Session
THESIS DEFENCE: Darcie Brown, “Voices of Self-Compassion in Parents of Twice-Exceptional Children”
SCIENCE RESEARCH TALKS & GRADUATE SCHOOL PANEL
INKLINGS INSTITUTE COFFEE HOUSE Dr. Andrew Barron: “C.S. Lewis and the Jewish Imagination”
FEDERAL ALL-CANDIDATES MEETING
LUNCH AND LEARN: Grant Writing Workshop #2
THESIS DEFENCE: Amy Kobelt, “Women’s Experiences of Healing After Sex Trafficking in Canada”
THESIS DEFENCE Katelyn Fister, “The Role of Metaphor in the Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Listening to the Multiple Voices of Shared Experience”
Screenagers The Next Chapter: Uncovering Skills for Stress Resilience
Rick Sawatzky’s Canada Research Chair in Person-Centred Outcomes, Public Lecture
“An Analysis of the Ongoing Validity of the Documentary Hypothesis for Final Form Interpretation: The Portrayal of Outsiders in the Abrahamic Narratives as a Case Study”
“Swahili Conditional Constructions in Embodied Frames of Reference: Modeling Semantics, Pragmatics, and Context-Sensitivity in UML Mental Spaces”
Thesis Defence: “Working Title: “Phenomenological features of counsellors’ being-ethical in ethically and/or morally challenging situations: Seeing-ethicaly, attention, exposure, proximity, third parties, and the decisive moment”
Thesis Defence: “Exploring the Experience of Mothers Who Have Children with Albinism in Tanzania: A Critical Ethnography”
