Thu, October 22, 2015 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM See description. WHERE: Vernon Science Centre, 2704 Highway 6, Vernon Open to the Public Areas of Australasia and the Okanagan are showing similar climate change impacts, particularly as they relate to changing precipitation patterns and recurring drought...
Interested in learning more about sustainability? Our events listing and featured events provides plenty of opportunities to get involved in sustainability, both on-and-off campus. If you are looking to highlight your sustainability event on campus, please visit UBC Events and tag your submission "sustainability" related.
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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Past Events
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Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 19:00
Thu, October 22, 2015 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM See description. Free. Celebrate and learn more about Open Access Week with this collaborative panel event, "Open for Collaboration: Is it Time for Canada to Implement A Unified Open Strategy for Higher Education?" Spurred by the need to make higher education...
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Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 17:30
Thu, October 22, 2015 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. If you need to manage large numbers of references and citations as part of your research, teaching or administrative work, citation management tools are for you. These tools provide a simple way to store, organize and retrieve...
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Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 14:00
Thu, October 22, 2015 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM The Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre. The man behind the United Nations Sustainable Goals adopted in New York on September 25th and recipient of the Blue Planet Prize, will be visiting Vancouver to discuss critical contemporary economic topics. Jeffrey D. Sachs...
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Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 12:30
Thu, October 22, 2015 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EARTH AND OCEAN SCIENCES - MAIN - PACIFIC MUSEUM OF THE EARTH. $10/$5. The next LFS Research Café will be held on Thursday, October 22! Join Professor Murray Isman for a presentation on "What do aromatherapy and insecticides have in common?” Thursday,...
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Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 12:00
Thu, October 22, 2015 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Thinking about publishing your research? There are more ways to communicate your scholarly ideas than ever before. Learn about skills and tools for discussing, interacting, presenting, writing, commenting, and finally...
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Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 11:00
Thu, October 22, 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, October 22, 2015 - 10:00
Wed, October 21, 2015 3:00 PM - 5:00 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 staff...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - 15:00
Wed, October 21, 2015 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM See description. FREE!!!. Fentanyl is now available in First Nations communities in British Columbia under FNHA. Over the past three years the opioid has progressively increased the number of illicit drug overdose deaths. In British Columbia 25% of the...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - 10:00
Tue, October 20, 2015 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM UBC Robson Square. Join the UBC Faculty of Applied Science for Innovate 2015, an evening of dialogue at UBC Robson Square. Discover pathways to partnering in an evening of thought-provoking, seven-minute presentations by engineering, nursing and planning...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 17:30