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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, we heard about some important upcoming positive changes at TRIUMF. Some of the proposed changes affect postdocs (see Reiner's attached presentation), but most will particularly
affect graduate students. </span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are a current graduate student at TRIUMF, please read the attached presentation by Reiner, and the summary below, to learn what changes apply
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You will have the option to identify yourself as a “Resident Graduate Student” at TRIUMF, meaning that TRIUMF will know about you even if you’re not on payroll. </span></li><li style="font-family:Helvetica Neue;margin:0;line-height:normal;font-stretch:normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We’re not entirely sure what concrete benefits this will have, but it makes some progress on closing a big gap in the classification of graduate students (many of whom are called “Visitors”
despite spending all or most of their time here) that has existed for a long time. </span></li><li style="margin:0;line-height:normal;font-stretch:normal;"><b><font face="Helvetica Neue"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You should email Marcello Pavan (</span><a href="mailto:marcello@triumf.ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="LPlnk267296" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">marcello@triumf.ca</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)
or Reiner Kruecken (</span><a href="mailto:reinerk@triumf.ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="LPlnk295216" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">reinerk@triumf.ca</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)
to be designated as a Resident Graduate Student.</span></font></b></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For non-UBC, non-SFU graduate students at TRIUMF:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through UBC, you will get a bus pass, extended health insurance and access to UBC facilities and offices (eg. the international students office). </span></li><li style="font-family:Helvetica Neue;margin:0;line-height:normal;font-stretch:normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your supervisor will also be required to pay you a minimum required stipend, which is supposed to be consistent with what UBC physics graduate students are paid. </span></li><li style="font-family:Helvetica Neue;margin:0;line-height:normal;font-stretch:normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This program should begin in September for current students at a domestic university. For current international students, some details remain to be sorted out.</span></li><li style="font-family:Helvetica Neue;margin:0;line-height:normal;font-stretch:normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more details, please see the attached presentation. </span></li><li style="font-family:Helvetica Neue;margin:0;line-height:normal;font-stretch:normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are not currently on TRIUMF payroll, you must email Reiner Kruecken now in order to receive
these benefits. </span></b></li></ul>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A second presentation, given by David Livermore (GAPS Committee chair) detailing some of our work on various issues over the past year is also attached. </span></div>
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<div><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have questions or feedback about the upcoming changes, please email Reiner</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. You
can always reach out to us at </span><a href="mailto:gaps@triumf.ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="LPlnk594659" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">gaps@triumf.ca</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,
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