Graduate Students: Welcome to the Faculty of Science
Graduate Orientation (GradO): August 27th, 2025
Faculty of Science Orientation: August 29th, 2025
International Student Orientation
Academic Programs
Training
- You are required to complete WHMIS 2015, Laboratory Safety Training, and Spill Response training. Visit the Environment, Health, and Safety website here for more info.
Checklists
- You must complete your Student/Supervisor Expectations and Intellectual Property Awareness checklists, found here, and submit a copy to the Graduate Science Centre.
- Visit the Biological Sciences Procedures, Policies, and Forms webpage for more info.
Course Registration
- General regulations about graduate course registration can be found here.
- For your program requirements see here and instruction guides here.
- Please review your course requirement information and discuss your choice with your supervisor (if applicable).
Graduate Assistantship Teaching (GAT)
- For graduate funding information, please see here.
- Faculty of Science Funding Policy
Clubs
- Check out the Biology Graduate Students’ Association.
Contacts
- Graduate Program Director: Dr. Paul Galpern (interim)
- For questions about the MSc/PhD programs: Email sci.grad@ucalgary.ca
- For general (non-student advising) inquiries: Email biosci@ucalgary.ca
- Please be sure to include ‘BISI’ in your email subject line, and be sure to include your UCID number in the body of your email.
Training
- Please see here for Chemistry graduate student training requirements.
Checklists
- You must complete your Student/Supervisor Expectations and Intellectual Property Awareness checklists, found here, and submit a copy to the Graduate Science Centre.
Course Registration
- General regulations about graduate course registration can be found here.
- See program requirements here, and instruction guides here.
Graduate Assistantship Teaching (GAT)
- For graduate funding information, please see here.
- Faculty of Science Funding Policy
Clubs
- Check out the Chemistry Student Community.
Contacts
- Graduate Program Director: Dr. Jeffrey Van Humbeck
- For questions about the MSc/PhD programs: Email sci.grad@ucalgary.ca
- For general (non-student advising) inquiries: Email chem.info@ucalgary.ca
- Please be sure to include ‘CHEM’ in your email subject line, and be sure to include your UCID number in the body of your email.
Checklists
- You must complete your Student/Supervisor Expectations and Intellectual Property Awareness checklists, found here, and submit a copy to the Graduate Science Centre.
Course Registration
- General regulations about graduate course registration can be found here.
- For your program requirements, see here, and instruction guides here.
- Please review your course requirement information and discuss your choice with your supervisor. Submit the course plan for satisfying degree requirements in conjunction with your supervisor.
- Course approval forms can be found here (MSc) and here (PhD).
Graduate Assistantship Teaching (GAT)
- For graduate funding information, please see here.
- Faculty of Science Funding Policy
Clubs
- Check out the Computer Science Student Community.
Contacts
- Graduate Program Director: Dr. Philipp Woelfel
- For questions about the MSc/PhD programs: Email sci.grad@ucalgary.ca
- For general (non-student advising) inquiries: Email cpsc@ucalgary.ca
- For TA assignment inquiries: Email ta.assignments@ucalgary.ca
- Please be sure to include ‘CPSC’ in your email subject line,, and be sure to include your UCID number in the body of your email.
Checklists
- You must complete your Student/Supervisor Expectations and Intellectual Property Awareness checklists, found here, and submit a copy to the Graduate Science Centre.
Course Registration
- General regulations about graduate course registration can be found here.
- For your program requirements, see here, and instruction guides here.
- Please review your course requirement information and discuss your choice with your supervisor. Submit the course plan for satisfying degree requirements in conjunction with your supervisor.
Graduate Assistantship Teaching (GAT)
- For graduate funding information, please see here.
- Faculty of Science Funding Policy
Clubs
- Check out the Computational Media Design Students’ Association.
- Please also refer to the Computer Science Student Community.
Contacts
- Graduate Program Director: Dr. Jeff Boyd
- For questions about the MSc/PhD programs: Email sci.grad@ucalgary.ca
- For general (non-student advising) inquiries: Email cpsc@ucalgary.ca
- Please be sure to include ‘CMD’ in your email subject line, and be sure to include your UCID number in the body of your email.
Checklists
- You must complete your Student/Supervisor Expectations and Intellectual Property Awareness checklists, found here, and submit a copy to the Graduate Science Centre.
Course Registration
- General regulations about graduate course registration can be found here and instruction guides here.
- Program requirements can be found here.
- Please review your course requirement information and discuss your choice with your supervisor (if applicable).
Graduate Assistantship Teaching (GAT)
- For graduate funding information, please see here.
- Faculty of Science Funding Policy
Clubs
- Check out the Graduate Association of Geology and Geophysics Students.
Contacts
- Graduate Program Director: Dr. Per Pedersen
- For questions about the MSc/PhD programs: Email sci.grad@ucalgary.ca
- For general (non-student advising) inquiries: Email earth@ucalgary.ca
- Please be sure to include ‘ERTH’ in your email subject line, and be sure to include your UCID number in the body of your email.
Checklists
- You must complete your Student/Supervisor Expectations and Intellectual Property Awareness checklists, found here, and submit a copy to the Graduate Science Centre.
Course Registration
- All students must complete the 600-level research seminar course. You also need to register in other courses according to program course requirements:
- Program requirements can be found here.
- Thesis-based students should discuss their course selection with their supervisors
- Course-based students should discuss their course selection with:
- Actuarial Science: Dr. Wenjun Jiang wenjun.jiang@ucalgary.ca
- Mathematical Finance: Dr. Anatoliy Swishchuk aswish@ucalgary.ca
- Mathematics (Pure): Dr. Dang Khoa Nguyen dangkhoa.nguyen@ucalgary.ca
- Mathematics (Applied): Dr Wenyuan Liao wliao@ucalgary.ca
- Statistics/Biostatistics: Dr. Qingrun Zhang qingrun.zhang@ucalgary.ca
- See registration instruction guides here.
Graduate Assistantship Teaching (GAT)
- For graduate funding information, please see here.
- Please also see this page for MTST-specific GAT information.
- Faculty of Science Funding Policy
Clubs
- Check out the Mathematics and Statistics Student Community.
Contacts
- Graduate Program Director: Dr. Jingjing Wu
- For questions about the MSc/PhD programs: Email sci.grad@ucalgary.ca
- For general (non-student advising) inquiries: Email mathadmin@ucalgary.ca
- Any course-based or supervisor issues, contact the GPD at mathgraddirector@ucalgary.ca
- Please be sure to include ‘MTST’ in your email subject line, and be sure to include your UCID number in the body of your email.
Checklists
- You must complete your Student/Supervisor Expectations and Intellectual Property Awareness checklists, found here, and submit a copy to the Graduate Science Centre.
Course Registration
- General regulations about graduate course registration can be found here.
- Program requirements can be found here.
- For Radiation Oncology Physics students:
- Please review your course requirement information and discuss your choice with your supervisor (if applicable). Then, complete your Course Approval form here.
- See registration instruction guides here.
Graduate Assistantship Teaching (GAT)
- For graduate funding information, please see here.
- Faculty of Science Funding Policy
Clubs
- Check out the Physics and Astronomy Student Community.
Contacts
- Graduate Program Director: Dr. Jo-Anne Brown
- For questions about the MSc/PhD programs: Email sci.grad@ucalgary.ca
- For general (non-student advising) inquiries: Email phasoffice@ucalgary.ca
- Please be sure to include ‘PHAS’ in your email subject line, and be sure to include your UCID number in the body of your email.
Professional Programs
Program Orientation: September 2nd, 2025, 11:30am – 1:30pm, location TBD.
Course Registration
- For course requirements, see the Program Webpage.
- To enroll in your courses, use your Student Centre and see here for instruction guides.
Program Progression
- For laddered-entry students, please see the Data Science homepage and the University Calendar.
Contacts
- Visit the Graduate Science Centre
Program Orientation:
- ISEC 601 Lecture 01 - August 25th, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, MS 236
- ISEC 601 Lecture 02 - September 8th, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, MS 236
Foundational material links can be found here.
Course Registration
- For course requirements, see the Program Webpage.
- To enroll in your courses, use your Student Centre and see here for instruction guides.
Program Progression
- For laddered-entry students, please see the Information Security homepage and the University Calendar.
Contacts
- Visit the Graduate Science Centre
Program Orientation: September 3rd, 2025, 1:30pm – 2:30pm, location TBD.
Course Registration
- For course requirements, see the Program Webpage.
- To enroll in your courses, use your Student Centre and see here for instruction guides.
Program Progression
- For laddered-entry students, please see the Quantum Computing homepage and the University Calendar.
Contacts
- Visit the Graduate Science Centre
Fall Orientation 2025
(Academic and Professional Programs)
Welcome Package information coming soon!