Wed, January 6, 2016 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PETER WALL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES. Free, please register here: http://events.pwias.ubc.ca/civicrm/event/info?id=167 . Speaker: Mary I. O’Connor is an Assistant Professor in the Zoology Department and Associate Director of the Biodiversity Research...
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Built Environment & Mobility
Climate Change & Energy
Policy, Economics & Governance
Production, Consumption & Waste
Presented by the UBC Sustainability Scholars Program: A conference on urban sustainability research What happens when you give bright and engaged students real-world sustainability problems to solve? UBC Sustainability Scholars are helping to...
Climate Emergency Week
Climate Emergency week at UBC seeks to convene and energize communities of climate action at UBC. Join our events, workshops and activities, and take collective action for justice, people, and our planet.
UBC Reads Sustainability
Part book club, part lecture series, and part opportunity to learn beyond the classroom. UBC Reads Sustainability is a forum for students across disciplines to discuss sustainability issues.
SDG Week Canada
SDG Week Canada is a national collaboration featuring workshops, panels, and other interactive programming to increase awareness of and engagement with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on university and college campuses.
Climate Justice Series
In response to the focus on climate justice as part of UBC’s Declaration of a Climate Emergency and recommendations from its Climate Emergency Task Force (CETF) Report the UBC Sustainability Initiative launched the Climate Justice Series, featuring sessions that examine climate justice from various perspectives, locally and globally.
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Tue, December 15, 2015 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Better writing starts with more writing, but it can be difficult to make the time – or get the accountability and feedback/support to start and keep a writing habit. This facilitated writing group was designed to address this...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2015 - 16:00
Mon, December 14, 2015 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Better writing starts with more writing, but it can be difficult to make the time – or get the accountability and feedback/support to start and keep a writing habit. This facilitated writing group was designed to address this...
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Monday, December 14, 2015 - 13:00
Thu, December 10, 2015 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Fipke Centre. Free . Nobel Night at UBC Okanagan Hosted by UBC University Relations On Thursday, December 10, Nobel Prizes will be presented to some of the world’s most outstanding contributors in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, economics and peace...
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Thursday, December 10, 2015 - 19:00
Thu, December 10, 2015 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Are you worried about getting your thesis/dissertation into the format required by the Faculty of Graduate Studies? Would you like to know more about how to use the formatting features in Microsoft Word? Research Commons...
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Thursday, December 10, 2015 - 14:00
Thu, December 10, 2015 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. How do you manage your research data? Join us for a research data management planning workshop designed to help you incorporate best practices for data management into your own work. We will address such questions as: What...
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Thursday, December 10, 2015 - 10:00
Tue, December 8, 2015 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Free. ARCTIC-WISE: Bridging Northern Knowledges of Change The Arctic Carbon Cycle – Does Sea Ice Matter? Tim Papakyriakou, Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba 5-6:30 pm, reception to follow Coach House, Green College, 6201...
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Tuesday, December 8, 2015 - 17:00
Tue, December 8, 2015 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. NVivo's classification capabilities will help you to add demographic data to your nodes and bibliographic data to your sources. Datasets allow you to import and work with tabular material from spreadsheets, database tables,...
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Tuesday, December 8, 2015 - 11:00
Sat, December 5, 2015 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM UBC FARM. $42 ($34 for registered students -- valid student ID is required) + GST. In this hands-on class, you will learn a simplified method to make your own chocolate bar without refined sugar or milk, but full of antioxidants and minerals. A few demos will...
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Saturday, December 5, 2015 - 13:00
Fri, December 4, 2015 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM H. R. MACMILLAN BUILDING. The UBC Soil, Water & Sustainability Group, in partnership with the Pacific Regional Society of Soil Science (PRSSS), welcome you to a special event featuring two lectures with Dr. Joann Whalen at UBC's Vancouver campus on...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 - 15:00