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.

What might sea level rise look like at UBC? A new mural in the AMS sustainability corridor offers a glimpse into future possibilities. Join local artists Josianne Assignon and Ana Julia Leon to celebrate the completion of the mural and to learn how...

Sustainability Education Fellows Information Session

Sustainability Photo Pop-Up Exhibition

Climate Change & Energy
Ecological Systems

Plug Yourself into UBC Research: a Series for Undergraduate Students

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

Thu, June 18, 2015 3:00 PM - 5:00 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, June 18, 2015 - 15:00
Thu, June 18, 2015 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Do you ever wonder about modeling outcome variables in your research? Come and learn how it is done with SPSS. Linear regression is an approach used for modeling the relationship between an independent variable "Y" and one or...
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Thursday, June 18, 2015 - 12:00
Thu, June 18, 2015 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free . Do you have trouble summarizing your data? Do you want to analyze your data with t-test, ANOVA, Pearson-test, etc. using SPSS? Do you have trouble graphing and presenting your data with SPSS? Well, we can help you with all of...
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Thursday, June 18, 2015 - 09:30
Wed, June 17, 2015 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. You've coded your data in NVivo: now what? Learn more about using data visualizations to enhance your presentation of your results, cross-tabulating your data using matrix coding, and summarizing your data using framework...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - 15:30
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...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - 13:00
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

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