UNBC Health Sciences Student Society

Last night of speaker series! Attendees can enter to win a Starbucks GC! Link in the highlight 🔗

The applications are officially open to apply for the executive positions!

If you are interested, please send your applications to the HSSA email address

[email protected]

Your application should indicate which position you are applying for and then a little blurb answering 3 questions:

Why would you like this position
What you bring to the table
Goals for the club next year

Each question should have a response of less than 350 words.

The application deadline is April 8th by 11:59 PM.

night 2 of the speaker series! Link on story or in highlight 🔗

Check your email for the zoom link or check the “speaker series” highlight 🔗

Speaker series!!!

The unbc health sciences student association is hosting a speaker series over zoom! Confirmed speakers so far are medical, optometry, physiotherapy, and pharmacy!

Watch your email for polls and the zoom link

Taylor swift night! We will be in the April price boardroom and making bracelets, snacks will be provided!
Please respond via google forms https://forms.gle/5akZyi68TdzDnjDt9

Volunteer opportunity to get into a Christmas mood!
Contact Carla for more details +1(250)-961-6702

Donuts and hot chocolate!!!
Come socialize before the exam stress sets in with the HHSA! November 24 at 7 pm at unbc. RSVP to [email protected] if you would like to come so we know how much supplies to purchase 💗

Today’s the day! Watch for Umesh in his Get Pink’d outfit!!!

Our Get Pink’d results are in!!! Thank you everyone for your generous donations 💗 $1697.15 will be donated to breast cancer research 🔬
Watch for Umesh on Friday wearing a pink boa and an extra surprise 🫶🏻

Great work UNBC!!

Geoffrey Payne and Kerry Reimer showed their support for our Get Pink’d fundraiser for breast cancer research. If you haven’t made your donation and voted for your fav prof to wear the pink bra, stop at the winter garden today💗💗💗💗

It’s almost time for our annual Get Pink’d fundraiser for breast cancer research! Watch for our table in the winter garden oct 23-27 10am to 3pm! 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

Tickets on sale in the winter garden next week!! $15 presale, $20 at the door. Come dressed in your best Barbie or spooky costume!

Come by our table this Thursday to say hi!

HSSA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING!

Everyone is welcome. Our first meeting of the year will be Sept 26 at 5:45 pm in the April Price Board Room.

Remember to watch for our table on the SLO days (Sept 20-21) for new member sign ups!

NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN!!

We are now underway with our elections. Currently the nomination period is open. Until Sunday April 23rd you may submit your application to [email protected]

To apply please answer the following questions:
1. Why would you like this position
2. What you bring to the table
3. Goals for the club next year

Please include your name, student number, and position you’re applying for.

Are you and your friends stressed? Participate in some reta therapy this week by buying everyone some sweets!!

We will be selling candy grams for $1 this week outside the winter garden. They will be distributed the following week before we go on break!!

CLUB MEETING!! We have our first meeting of the semester this Thursday, January 19th in room 6-397. Come by if you are an old or new club member to here what our plans are for this semester. See you at 5:30 :)

We will be outside the winter garden this Thursday for SLO days, come by and say hi!

Hello!!

Festival of trees for spirit of the north healthcare foundation is in need of volunteers!! The dates are Tuesday November 29th to Sunday December 4th.

If you are interested please contact:
Carla - 250-961-6702
Lil - 250-649-8247

*All proceeds go to northern health*

Thank you to everyone who came out to our games night!! We had a lots of fun taking a break from the books🤓 Good luck on your midterms!!

Merry Christmas!!

UNBC HSSA is partnering with the UNBC Golden Key Chapter for an ornament night Thursday, November 10th , from 5 - 8 pm in the Gathering Place (Room 5-123). We would love to see you there! The ornaments made will be used to decorate a Golden Key sponsored tree entry into Festival of the Trees, which is an annual fundraiser for Spirit of North Healthcare Foundation. Golden Key will be supplying art supplies and hot chocolate, so don't miss it! Come with your friends and join us in a night of fun!!

Just a friendly reminder that we are meeting tonight at 6:00 pm in the April Price Board Room (Room 6-390). We hope you can attend to give us your input on future events and opportunities.

Keep in mind that each hours attended contributes 1 hour toward your total volunteer hours with the club.

We hope to see you there!

Pizza and Board Games Night🍕

To celebrate the incredible success of our Get Pink’d fundraiser and to give everyone the opportunity to socialize and meet other students, we will be holding a games and board game night in the April Price Board Room. The event will take place November 4th from 6-9pm. There will be snacks drinks and games!!

You don’t have to be apart of the club or faculty at all, just fill out the rsvp link in our bio or down below so we can plan accordingly!!

https://forms.gle/YAMSZmvLDmRHYj1k6

Hoodie Orders!!

This year we have three different hoodie options. The black and navy hoodie are both $50 and the black 1/4 zip is $45.

If you’d like to place an order please fill out the order form and e-transfer [email protected]. If you don’t have the order form you can send us an email at [email protected] and we will send one to you right away!!

VERY IMPORTANT: when entering the security question please set the password to be Clothing2022

And that’s a wrap!!

Thank you to everyone who donated this year, we raised a total of $1654.30. Kerry Reimer was our lucky winner and he’ll be sporting the big pink bra around the halls next week.

We’d like to give a special thank you to Tammy Klassen Ross for contacting ckpg to spread the word. We can’t wait to hold the event again next year!!

Hey UNBC are you ready to… GET PINK’D
🌷💕🌸👙💞💓🦩💗👚😂🌸🌷💞💗👚💕🎀🦩👙
This week we will be in the winter garden from 10am - 2pm, Monday to Friday. Come by and donate under a professors name. At the end of the week the professors with the most donations will wear the big pink bra* for an entire day!!
All the proceeds of the fundraiser will go to breast cancer research.

This year our candidates are:
- Dr. Kerry Reimer
- Dr. Tammy Klassen Ross
- Dr. Paul Siakaluk
- Dr. Michael Preston
- Jonathan Nyantakyi*

For all club memebers, there are still spots that need to be filled!!

*a pink feather boa will be worn instead

Hey UNBC, it’s time to… GET PINK’D!!👙💗🎀

This week we will be outside the winter garden to collect your donations for breast cancer research. When you donate tell us which professor you want to see “Get Pink’d.” At the end of the week the professor with the most funds will wear the big pink bra for an entire day!!

Voting for executive positions is now open! Voting opened at 9:00pm on Saturday, October 1st and will close on Saturday, October 8th at 9:00pm. Voting is only open to current club members, so if you’re on our email list check your email for a link to vote! We will also be running the Get Pink’d fundraiser this month and a poll was sent out to nominate professors. More info on the fundraiser itself to come!

Our first meeting is happening tonight! Join us at 5:00 in the Medium Meeting Room to hear about all our plans for the year! See you there :)