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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Remember to <b>email Reiner (<font face="Helvetica Neue"><a href="mailto:reinerk@triumf.ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk295216" class="x_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">)</span></font>
to be designated as a Resident Graduate Student if you spend most of your time at TRIUMF, but are not currently paid by TRIUMF</b>.
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">This will allow you to opt into upcoming changes to grad student hiring here, including a cheaper bus pass, access to UBC facilities, and a new minimum stipend. For more details, take a look at the proposed changes summarized
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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
to you and how to take advantage of them. </span></b></div>
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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" id="LPlnk267296" class="x_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" id="LPlnk295216" class="x_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">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">
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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" id="LPlnk594659" class="x_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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