Fri, April 10, 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...
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, April 7, 2015 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. FREE. Location: UBC EDC Building - Design Studio 102-2345 East Mall, Vancouver BC Speaker: Dr. Adam D. Hawkes, Sustainable Gas Institute, Imperial College London, Deputy Director http://www.sustainablegasinstitute.org Abstract: Natural gas...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2015 - 15:30
Tue, April 7, 2015 12:00 PM - 2:00 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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Tuesday, April 7, 2015 - 12:00
Thu, April 2, 2015 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Join our opening reception of Life Off Grid: Reassembling Domestic Life with Jonathan Taggart, writer-photographer and UBC PhD student. Refreshments will be available. Or, come by to view the exhibition in the Lobby Gallery between March...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 - 17:00
Thu, April 2, 2015 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM University Centre. WHERE: UNC Ballroom Open to the Public Communities in Transformation is an event highlighting some of the ongoing research being conducted by Interdisciplinary Graduate students at UBC Okanagan. The panel presentations will be exhibited in a...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 - 13:00
Thu, April 2, 2015 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Please join us for this intimate talk by special guest Patrick Ochieng, a Kenya-based Scholar-Activist and Founding Director of Ujamaa Center, a social justice non-governmental organization in Kenya. Patrick will share with us his journey...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 - 12:00
Wed, April 1, 2015 4:30 PM - 10:30 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Join the The International Development Research Network (IDRN) April 1st at the Liu Institute for an event and networking night designed to promote collaboration and dialogue between students, researchers and practitioners engaged in...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 - 16:30
Tue, March 31, 2015 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM MICHAEL SMITH LABORATORIES. Free. Join us on March 31st, 2015, for a presentation on Nurturing Innovation Across Boundaries. This event is open to anyone who has an innovative idea that they want to develop to its full potential. Our keynote speaker, Al...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 - 18:00
Tue, March 31, 2015 2:00 PM - 4:00 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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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 - 14:00
Mon, March 30, 2015 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM See description. Made by former China Central Television newscaster Chai Jing, “Under the Dome”, the 104-minute, TED-style film drew more than 150 million viewers in the first days after Chai posted it online. In three weeks, Chai’s film has gone from Internet...
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Monday, March 30, 2015 - 15:30