Past Events

The 2021 UGRA AGM will be held on Thursday June 17th from ~9 :30 to 12:00.  Lysa Porth, the new Dean of the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics has agreed to be our speaker and will talk about how Covid has effected our economy.

In 2007, the Education Committee of the McGill University Research Centre for Studies in Aging launched a series of lectures on healthy aging to the general public. The goal of the series is to suggest practical steps to improve and maintain brain health, as well as to promote healthy lifestyle choices amongst the most populous generation in history.

Nutrition 2: Are we what we eat? University of Victoria Retirees Association - AN ELDER ACADEMY EVENT

University Pension Plan Member Consultations in May Continued Please join the member engagement sessions and stay up to date on news and events. An all-member general information session is to be held on 27 May 2021 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.   Registration is now open at MyUPP.ca. The password to register is: MyUpp!JULY

University Pension Plan Member Consultations in May Please save 13 May 2021  from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. for a meeting with University Pension Plan (UPP), to share your views on UPP’s investment approach. Retirees are welcome to join the member engagement sessions and stay up to date on news and events. This will follow with an all-member general information session on 27 May 2021 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.  

Given the continuing pandemic, Senior College has scheduled 12 summer talks for Wednesday afternoons and invites members of CURAC (includes UGRA members) to register and take part. The list is below. To register, go to the website (Senior College Weekly Talks) and click on the Find Out More link at the bottom of the description for the link to register.  If you have difficulties, contact Daphne Maurer, daphne@maurer.ca.  

Modern Day Democracy: Current Perspectives takes place each Saturday in May starting May 1st from 10 am to noon Pactifc Time. The link below provides information on the series and the registration. https://www.uvic.ca/retirees/assets/docs/may-final.pdf

Mike von Massow is interested in how people think about food with recent work focusing on labeling, novel food products, animal welfare and antibiotic use. He is also active in the interdisciplinary Guelph Food Waste Research Project with Dr. Kate Parizeau. Mike's research also considers the structure and performance of food value chains as they evolve in response to changing consumer preferences and other factors.

The McGill University Retiree Association is honoured to host the  CURAC 2021 VIRTUAL ASSEMBLY   Thursday, April 15, 2021, 1:00 – 3:00 PM  

The 16th Annual Senior College Symposium Roots of Violence On Zoom: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 Registration link: Roots of Violence Co-Chairs: Daphne Maurer (pro tem) and Margaret Procter