Students who register in SURE will be eligible to receive co-curricular credit by completing a minimum ten hours of training, webinars, or events supported or delivered through SURE (fall and winter). There is no time limit, students can combine hours taken across terms and academic years. Note: As of Spring/Summer 2024, SURE summer programming will not count towards CCR, as its purpose is to complement USRA students' workday and provide professional development opportunities.

Students are expected to keep their own record of which webinars, training or events they attend. At the end of each term, a survey is sent for students to submit their hours. If qualified, SURE is added to your co-curricular record.

SURE also partners with the College of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for the annual Summer Symposium, and with the USSU to support the Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Students in SURE must complete 10 hours of training, from the following categories: 

• SURE tracking sheet

SURE uses an ongoing registration format. By signing up, you agree to receive emails from the SURE program. You may unsubscribe from our email list at any time. 

We also recommend following the Undergraduate Research Initiative on Instagram, Facebook, X (Twitter), or LinkedIn. Find those links here.

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Research Excellence and Innovation offered series of six online webinars and four live in-person Lunch and Learn events around Entrepreneurship in summer 2022. Recordings can be found on our YouTube site. 

• Entrepreneurship past seminars

USask Safety Services training is eligible for SURE credit. The most common safety training for students includes: Covid-19 training, Biosafety training, Laboratory Safety, WHMIS 2015, and Safety Orientiation for Employees.

All Safety courses qualify for SURE credit under Research Management.

• Safety Services Training

Both human and animal research ethics training is eligible for SURE credit. Students actively working in human or animal research must take training. 

All ethics training goes under Research Management.

USask Career Services offers many student-focused services, from career assessment (knowing your strengths/personality type to career readiness competencies) to one-on-one career planning (resumes, cover letters, practice interviews), through to professionalism in your online persona (LinkedIn and more) and career fairs, to connect you with potential employers.

All USask Career Services events and activities qualify toward your SURE co-curricular credit under Professional Development. 

• Career Services

Canadian Hub for Applied and Social Research - CHASR

If you're conducting social science research, past webinars offered by CHASR may help! Training in mixed methods design, survey design, NVIVO, triangulation, program evaluation, GIS, social network analysis, SPSS, and more. Any of these past recorded webinars can count towards your SURE credit, under Research Management.

CHASR YouTube Site

Note: if you are taking training in Python, Matlab, or any kind of coding or analytical program used in your discipline, those training hours can count towards Research Management in the SURE program. 

Mitacs training

Mitacs is a Canadian federal program to support students for industry and employment. Their extensive training curriculum combines in-person and online events. All Canadian postsecondary students may access this training for free. 

Mitacs courses surround eight unique course bundles, each consisting of an online, self-paced course and its corresponding instructor led sessions. The course bundle themes include: 

• Networking skills 
• Project and time management 
• Reconciliation and EDI 
• Communication skills 
• Career planning 
• R&D management 
• Leadership skills 
• Writing and presentation skills

To register for a specific course, visit their EDGE portal.

SURE previously recorded webinars are all available for viewing. Viewing past webinars can count toward your SURE 10 hours for co-curricular credit. Follow the links below to SURE playlists on YouTube, where you can also subscribe and be notified when we add new videos.

• Communication
• Social media for researchers
• CHASR: Research Analysis
• How to Get Involved in Undergraduate Research
• Research Data Management
• Professional Development
• Entrepreneurship
• Publishing Research
• Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Research
• Developing Good Habits
• Jeff Perera Gender of Success and Failure
• SURE program full playlist

This annual event is open to all undergraduate students who are involved in a research, scholarly, artistic, or applied project for the summer or students who have research to share from one of their classes.  Showcase and celebrate your work with the USask community!

This event aims to welcome undergraduate students from all disciplines to showcase their summer research. It is led by the Office of the Vice President Research with sponsorship from USask Career Services and RBC Future Launch and support from the College of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.

The SURE Summer Symposium 2023 takes place in-person at Convocation Hall on Thursday, August 31st from 8:30 am to 5 pm. Awards Ceremony begins at 3:00 pm.

Link to 2023 SURE Summer Symposium Program 

SURE Symposium 2023

Fall 2023 SURE Symposium online (USask NSID required to view)

Winners: 

Honourable Mentions:  Jacob Pilon and Morgan Lehmann

Second Place (Tie): Hya El-Baroudy and Huzaifa Saeed

First Place: Ryan Chan

SURE Symposium 2022

Summer 2022 SURE Symposium online (USask NSID required to view)

Winners: 

Honourable Mentions:  Jesse Adrian Amanda Ewen Morgan Lehmann Tessa Lester Vanessa Brown

Third Place: Mykyta Shvets

Second Place: Leah MacFarlane

First Place: Chi Vu

SURE Research, Scholarly and Artistic Works Fall 2021 Symposium

Research Acceleration and Strategic Initiatives is pleased to announce our new SURE (Student Undergraduate Research Experience) RSAW (Research Scholarly and Artistic Works) Fall 2021 Symposium. This fall Symposium complements the SURE summer Symposium and the USSU Spring Symposium as an additional campus-wide symposium open to all undergraduate students in all disciplines.

Details: The Symposium was held online via Canvas between November 30^th and December 7^th. 

Symposium Winners: 

Honourable Mentions:

Katie Sofko: Changes in Tibial Articular Cartilage T2 Relaxation Time with Load – An in vivo Repeatability Study (authors Sofko KG, Elebute I, Cui L, Bzowey N, McWalter EJ) Engineering

Kayley Lawrenz: The Experience of COVID-19 in Rural Saskatchewan Long-term Care Homes (with Ivy Myge, B.A., Rebeca S. Pereira, BA., & Paulette V. Hunter, Ph.D.) Health Sciences

Yash Tendulkar: Experiences Supporting Videoconference Visits During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Rural Saskatchewan Long-term Care Homes (Supervisor Dr. Paulette Hunter) Health Sciences

Award winners: Second Place (three way tie)

Alina Sami: The Role of APOBEC3C Deoxycytidine Deaminases in Somatic Mutagenesis (supervisor Dr. Linda Chelico) Health Sciences

Cindy Li: Design and synthesis of inhibitors for Glucocerebrosidase, a top biomarker and therapeutic target for Parkinson’s Disease (with Dr. Chris Phenix  Morshed Chowdhury) Physical and Life Sciences

Norah Ridley: An exploration of documents' privacy leaks (with Enrico Branca and Natalia Stakhanova) Computer Science and Math

Top Award: First Place

Leah Houseman: "It’s a Violation of My Freedom”: Getting Informed, Social Media, and Face Mask Use in Canada (Supervisor Dr. Scott Thompson) Social Sciences and Business

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