Wed, January 28, 2015 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM FOREST SCIENCES CENTRE. Come celebrate our diversity in food culture by coming out to this delightful buffet of international dishes. Plus, enjoy a magnificent talk by the amazing Peter Ladner, author of 'The Urban Food Revolution" and active public speaker...
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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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 17:00
Wed, January 28, 2015 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. NVivo is one of the leading computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) packages, and is now available for both PC and Mac operating systems. The Research Commons can help grad students to get started...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 16:00
Wed, January 28, 2015 1:45 PM - 3:45 PM IRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE. The Instructional Design (ID) Community of Practice aims to be a self-sustaining community where like-minded members connect with others, online and face to face, about integrating technology, instructional design practices,...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 13:45
Wed, January 28, 2015 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM TOTEM FIELD STUDIOS. Bees are one of the most important groups of organisms we depend upon for our food, yet their populations are declining. Can cities be safehavens for bees? Come learn about the types of bees in Vancouver, and what you can do to help them...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 13:00
Tue, January 27, 2015 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Thinking about publishing your research? There are more ways to communicate your scholarly ideas than ever before. Learn about skills and tools for discussing, interacting, presenting, writing, commenting, and finally...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 13:00
Tue, January 27, 2015 12:45 PM - 2:00 PM TOTEM FIELD STUDIOS. Meet at the Totem Park Field, and forage and collect plants to take back to the Global Lounge to make some of your own tea. Walk away with newfound knowledge of how to forage, as well as your own supply of tea! This event is a part of "...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 12:45
Mon, January 26, 2015 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. The annual Splane Lecture features Graham Riches, Emeritus Professor, former Director of the UBC School of Social Work. Title: Confronting First World Hunger: Charity or the Right to Food Presenter: Graham Riches, Emeritus Professor and...
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Monday, January 26, 2015 - 17:30
Mon, January 26, 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, January 26, 2015 - 15:00
Mon, January 26, 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, January 26, 2015 - 12:00
Mon, January 26, 2015 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM NEVILLE SCARFE BUILDING. Come on out to Main Mall near the Fountain for a fresh, local and not to mention FREE lunch to kick off "Chew On This", a weeklong series of events to connect students to sustainable food. Bring your own reusable container!
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Monday, January 26, 2015 - 11:00