Tue, March 3, 2015 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM University Centre. Need a break? Come check out three really cool TED talks today - just drop in! Three TED talks will be shown every Tuesday from 11 am to 12 noon in the UNC Theatre.
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.
UBC Vancouver faculty members are invited to join an information session to learn more about the Sustainability Education Fellows program with grants of up to $20,000 for interdisciplinary faculty teams developing sustainability-related curricula...
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
Mon, March 2, 2015 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Do you know how to edit and organize your data using an effective data management software? Do you want to work with user-friendly software without going through a hassle of writing code? SPSS can help you accomplish this for you...
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Monday, March 2, 2015 - 14:30
Mon, March 2, 2015 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Do you wonder what SPSS is and how it can be useful to help you manage and analyze your data? Would you like to learn how to work with SPSS just by clicking a few keys? Enroll in our workshop and let us help you learn the basics...
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Monday, March 2, 2015 - 12:00
Mon, March 2, 2015 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM 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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Monday, March 2, 2015 - 09:30
Fri, February 27, 2015 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. The Pacific Northwest is a unique region in which climate change is expected to exacerbate many of the natural hazard risks irrespective of political and international boundaries. This panel will explore the climate and natural hazard-...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 - 13:30
Fri, February 27, 2015 11:00 AM - 1:00 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...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 - 11:00
Fri, February 27, 2015 8:00 AM - 6:30 PM THEA KOERNER HOUSE (FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES/GRAD STUDENT CENTRE). Professionals $99, Students $39. Registration is now open for the School of Community and Regional Planning’s 7th Annual Symposium, taking place on Friday, February 27th, 2015. We invite...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 - 08:00
Thu, February 26, 2015 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM See description. Free. This course was designed in partnership with elders from the Kainai Aboriginal community. The original idea for this course stems from a vision, request and invitation from these elders. Indigenous people face a difficult paradox...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 - 16:30
Wed, February 25, 2015 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Free. Oecologies: The Histories of Sustainability Ruskin’s Raw Materials: Toward A History Of “Sustainability” Deanna Kreisel, English, UBC 5-6:30 pm, Piano Lounge, Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, UBC This talk will begin to...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 17:00
Wed, February 25, 2015 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. NVivo is one of the leading computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) packages, and is now available for both PC and Mac operating systems. The Research Commons can help grad students to get started...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 16:00