Tue, November 17, 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,...
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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Tue, November 17, 2015 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM WOODWARD LIBRARY. Free. This session is appropriate for students conducting literature reviews in any discipline. Topics include ... what is a literature review? ... finding the right databases ... search strategies for databases ... finding scholarly...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - 10:00
Mon, November 16, 2015 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Rashid Sumaila with the UBC Fisheries Economics Research Unit, Global Fisheries Cluster, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, and Liu Institute for Global Issues will present two of his ongoing research projects with a view to...
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Monday, November 16, 2015 - 14:30
Mon, November 16, 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, November 16, 2015 - 13:00
Thu, November 12, 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, November 12, 2015 - 14:00
Thu, November 12, 2015 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM IRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE. Speaker: Kiyoshi Kurokawa, MD, MACP Adjunct professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Chairman of Health and Global Policy Institute Chair of Board, Global Health Innovative Technology Fund Professor...
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Thursday, November 12, 2015 - 12:00
Tue, November 10, 2015 2:00 PM - 3:30 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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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 - 14:00
Tue, November 10, 2015 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM FREDERIC WOOD THEATRE. The Lind Initiative in U.S. Studies presents a discussion with Elizabeth May, MP Saanich-Gulf Islands and Leader of the Green Party of Canada on "Climate Inequality." Venue Change: We have moved the event to Frederic Wood Theatre,...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 - 12:30
Sat, November 7, 2015 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. FREE. Receive an overview of global change processes and rates of change. Explore opportunities for intervention and more thoughtful engagement. HADI DOWLATABADI is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Applied Mathematics and Global...
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Saturday, November 7, 2015 - 13:00
Wed, November 4, 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, November 4, 2015 - 15:00