Tue, March 17, 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.
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...
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 16, 2015 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Survival analysis is for everyone in the field of Medicine, Engineering, Economics, and even Sociology. Survival analysis deals with the analysis of time duration to until one or more events happen, such as the death of...
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Monday, March 16, 2015 - 15:00
Mon, March 16, 2015 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM THE FRED KAISER BUILDING. by donation. Get your green on! And join us from 12 pm – 2 pm at our first annual Eating Sustainably Feast! DISCOVER the various types of locally-grown, organic and fair trade product, get free samples and information. EAT locally-...
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Monday, March 16, 2015 - 12:00
Mon, March 16, 2015 12:00 PM - 2:30 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Have you been to our linear regression workshop? If you have, it is time to learn about logistic regression. Logistic regression measures the relationship between a categorical dependent variable and one or more independent...
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Monday, March 16, 2015 - 12:00
Mon, March 16, 2015 8:30 AM - Fri, March 20, 2015, 4:30 PM NEVILLE SCARFE BUILDING. Educational Technology Support (ETS) is pleased to announce that UBC’s Faculty of Education has been approved to live stream the world-famous TED conference, which will be held at the Vancouver Convention Centre...
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Monday, March 16, 2015 - 08:30
Sat, March 14, 2015 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. $29.75 members, UBC students & UNA, $35 public. This workshop will focus on the science and art of espalier tree fruits. The following will all be included: The history of tree fruit espalier around the world and in the UBC Food...
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Saturday, March 14, 2015 - 10:00
Sat, March 14, 2015 1:30 AM - 4:00 AM UBC Point Grey Campus. $29.75 members, UBC students & UNA; $35 public. Most temperate tree fruits we grow in our gardens are grafted. During this workshop you will learn how to: create a new tree from a rootstock and dormant scion wood add a variety to an...
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Saturday, March 14, 2015 - 01:30
Fri, March 13, 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 retrieve...
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Friday, March 13, 2015 - 11:00
Thu, March 12, 2015 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM FIRST NATIONS LONGHOUSE. $5.00. The Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) event highlights the opportunities for female students in science and engineering through a casual and intimate networking atmosphere with successful and accomplished women in both...
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Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 17:30
Thu, March 12, 2015 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM See description. Peter Wall International Visiting Research Scholar public talk: Hydroxyl is the atmosphere’s Pac-Man. Hydroxyl always wins. Hydroxyl (OH) is simply water missing a hydrogen and it wants it back. As a result, it has a prodigious appetite for...
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Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 13:00