Tue, October 20, 2015 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Keeping current with new research in your field can be a challenge. In this workshop, you’ll learn strategies and tools to help you stay up-to-date with the published literature. We’ll cover: -How to create saved search...
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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Sat, October 17, 2015 12:00 PM - Sun, October 18, 2015, 12:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. $10/participant . LFS|US is hosting its first-ever Feeding 9 Billion Challenge! On October 17th & 18th, the Feeding 9 Billion Challenge will take place at UBC and 3 other universities across Canada. This...
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Saturday, October 17, 2015 - 12:00
Thu, October 15, 2015 2:00 PM - 4:00 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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Thursday, October 15, 2015 - 14:00
Wed, October 14, 2015 3:00 PM - 5:00 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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Wednesday, October 14, 2015 - 15:00
Tue, October 13, 2015 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Learn strategies and techniques for selecting the right journal for your article. This session will teach you how to select a journal based on scope, reputation, and impact. You will also learn the critical steps to take and...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015 - 11:00
Thu, October 8, 2015 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM FOREST SCIENCES CENTRE. The University of British Columbia (UBC) Faculty of Forestry and WWF International Forest and Climate Programme are sponsoring an international roundtable to facilitate discussion by Indigenous Peoples’ representatives of the important...
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Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 16:30
Wed, October 7, 2015 2:00 PM - 4:00 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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Wednesday, October 7, 2015 - 14:00
Fri, October 2, 2015 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Engineering, Management and Education Building. Free . Come have your lunch at this Friday’s Brown Bag Seminar, brought to you by the Biology Graduate Student Society. MSc student Jenna Hutchen will be presenting a seminar: Burning questions about wildfires:...
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Friday, October 2, 2015 - 12:00
Thu, October 1, 2015 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM See description. FREE. Ursula Heise | How We Learned to Start Worrying and Love Endangered Species Ursula K. Heise is a Professor of English at UCLA and a faculty member of UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES). She was a Guggenheim...
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Thursday, October 1, 2015 - 19:00
Thu, October 1, 2015 2:00 PM - 4:00 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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Thursday, October 1, 2015 - 14:00