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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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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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
Wed, March 11, 2015 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Join us for an engaging talk by Prof. Brian Murray, Research Professor of Environmental Economics at Duke University and visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Institute of the Environment, University of Ottawa. The Regional Greenhouse Gas...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015 - 12:00
Tue, March 10, 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.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015 - 11:00
Mon, March 9, 2015 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Join us for an exciting panel to discuss the new book, How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts, by Candis Callison, UBC’s Graduate School of Journalism. Climate change offers an opportunity to investigate how science...
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Monday, March 9, 2015 - 16:00
Mon, March 9, 2015 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM 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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Monday, March 9, 2015 - 12:00
Mon, March 9, 2015 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 staff...
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Monday, March 9, 2015 - 09:30