Sat, September 13, 2014 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. UBC Botanical Garden's annual sale offers favorites for all seasons. Planting demonstrations, food and more.
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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Thu, September 11, 2014 1:30 PM - 3:30 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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Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 13:30
Thu, September 11, 2014 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...
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Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 09:30
Wed, September 10, 2014 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM WOODWARD LIBRARY. Free. Why, after 20 years of discussion on climate change, do so many people ignore the science and evidence of their own eyes? UBC Reads Sustainability’s first speaker of 2014, George Marshall, draws on the social psychology of climate...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014 - 12:30
Tue, September 9, 2014 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Do you know how to edit your data using effective data management software? Do you want to work with user-friendly software without going through a hassle of writing code? SPSS can do this for you with a few clicks. Attend...
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Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - 15:00
Tue, September 9, 2014 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Do you wonder what SPSS is and how it can be useful to manage and analyze your data? Would you like to learn how to work with SPSS just by clicking a few keys? Let us help you learn the basics. This event is part of UBC...
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Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - 12:30
Mon, September 8, 2014 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Are you a graduate student and new to UBC? Would you like to know more about what the library has to offer? This basic workshop will provide you with an overview of some of the key services and resources available to you...
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Monday, September 8, 2014 - 12:00
Sun, September 7, 2014 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Explore the fascinating world of host-parasite interactions, where the microscopic have tremendous influence.
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Sunday, September 7, 2014 - 13:00
Thu, September 4, 2014 12:00 AM - Wed, September 10, 2014, 12:00 AM FOREST SCIENCES CENTRE. FREE. Photo contest: “Sunrise in the forest – a new day is dawning” Brought to you by the Forestry Undergraduate Society and UBC Faculty of Forestry. Open to any amateur photographer/artist (students,...
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Thursday, September 4, 2014 - 00:00
Tue, August 26, 2014 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Engineering, Management and Education Building. WHERE: room EME 1153 Open to the Public Quesnel Lake is a fjord-type lake that supports the second largest Sockeye salmon run in Canada. On August 4, 2014 the Mount Polley tailings storage facility released...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014 - 10:00