Slow Fashion Season, Jan 1 – Mar 27 | Fast fashion, textile waste, and unsustainable clothing consumption are global environmental problems. Can we make a difference, here and now, in the ways we consume and produce clothing? The Circular Textiles, Sustainable Fibre research cluster at UBC presents Slow Fashion Season to ignite change. Check out our Fashion Design Challenges, over one […]
Grapes to Glass is a four-session Wine Education and Tasting Series. You will use your senses as you learn about the important elements of wine production, from grape-growing to enjoying the finished product, with a special focus on B.C. wines. Over the course of these sessions, you will taste over a dozen unique wines and […]
Create an authentic profile, practice finding potential contacts within UBC’s alumni network, and learn how to research career ideas using alumni and employer profiles.
Speaker: Craig Mitton, UBC School of Population and Public Health This presentation examines decision making for expensive drugs for rare diseases (EDRDs) in BC, situating the EDRD process within the broader challenge of health system priority setting under conditions of scarcity. Drawing on economic and ethical frameworks, the presentation outlines how multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) […]
Philip Holden’s short story collection Heaven Has Eyes spans three cities—Singapore, Vancouver, and London—exploring belonging across space, language, culture, and time. Its new North American edition contains new stories that consider the place of the past in the present, and which are also informed by practices of narrative care in mental health. Taking Singapore as a fulcrum, […]
The UBC Faculty of Education Global Speaker Series on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Inclusion is an annual event that addresses some of society’s most pressing priorities by sharing and learning from stories from around the world. Host Dr. Jan Hare (she/her), Dean and Professor, UBC Faculty of Education Distinguished Speaker Tiq Milan (he/him) […]
Curiosity moves us. Determination gets us there—because progress doesn’t happen on its own. See how we push forward.
