Wed, June 17, 2015 1:00 PM - 3:00 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...
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
Wed, June 17, 2015 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. FREE. Wescadia and UBC Farm in partnership with UBC Bookstore presents Summer Sizzle: Fresh Ideas for Foodies Chef David Speight, Excutive Chef at Wescadia will be presenting recipes from the new catering menu. Join us at the UBC...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - 12:00
Fri, May 29, 2015 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM AUDITORIUM (OLD AUDITORIUM). $10. Join author, scientist, and environmentalist David Suzuki for a special evening Talk, with Q&A, and Signing. Based on inspiring letters to his grandchildren from his new book, he speaks personally and passionately about their...
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Friday, May 29, 2015 - 19:00
Wed, May 27, 2015 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM See description. Free. FREE EVENT Prof. Samoil Bilenky will introduce a short movie on the life of Bruno Pontecorvo. The movie will trace the main points of Bruno Pontecorvo's life, a nuclear physicist, born in 1913 in Pisa (Italy) and dead in 1993 in Dubna (...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015 - 19:00
Thu, May 21, 2015 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM See description. FREE. FNHA is seeing more First Nations clients opting for home hemodialysis and this session is designed to teach community members and health practitioners more about the treatment. The Home Hemodialysis Unit team presenting at the UBC...
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Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 10:00
Wed, May 20, 2015 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). Visiting Professor Ika Darnhofer (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna) will give a talk exploring how family farms are able to adapt and transform to changing economic and environmental...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 12:00
Tue, May 19, 2015 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CHEMICAL & BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING BUILDING. Title: All-Oxide Quantum-confined Heteronanostructures& Devices Speaker: Dr. Lionel Vayssieres, Co-founder and Co-director of International Research Center for Renewable Energy, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - 13:00
Thu, May 14, 2015 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM MICHAEL SMITH LABORATORIES. No Charge. Description Now that you’ve diagnosed your policy problem and mapped your stakeholder landscape, what is your strategy for influencing change? How will you communicate and align objectives with your stakeholders? Can you...
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Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 09:00
Tue, May 12, 2015 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM MICHAEL SMITH LABORATORIES. Free. How do you capture the long term impact your work will create? Meaningful grant writing and reporting begins with keeping your outcomes in mind. Please join us on Tuesday, May 12, 2015 for a discussion on Measuring Change. Our...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - 12:00
Fri, May 1, 2015 12:00 AM - Sat, May 2, 2015, 12:00 AM UBC Okanagan campus. Graduate students, faculty, staff and alumni are invited to experience the 6th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Students’ Conference on Science, Culture, and Society. The theme for this year’s conference is Experiencing...
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Friday, May 1, 2015 - 00:00