The Art of Comics-Engaged Research with Raey Costain and Cal Smith

Online/Virtual Event

Join PhD students Raey Costain and Cal Smith as they present their research on how visual methods such as comic drawing have a unique capacity to explore and document human stories in the past and present. In conversation with Dr. Charlotte Schallié, they will challenge some of the traditional terminology applied to art and aesthetics. […]

Free

Data Bites – Best Practices for Creating a README file

Online/Virtual Event

Do you struggle with organizing your research materials? This 30-minute workshop highlights practical techniques for creating a README file. A README is a guide to your data and assists other researchers to understand your dataset, its contents, provenance, licensing and how to interact with it. Location: ONLINE (A Zoom link will be sent to registrants 3 […]

Free

Introduction to Web Mapping with Leaflet

Online/Virtual Event

This workshop will first give an introduction to web maps, including the differences between digital maps and web maps, their structure, and how they work. The second part of the workshop will be a short hands-on session where we will create our own web map showing UBC campus buildings – with clickable with popups – […]

Free

Insight & Eyesight

Orchard Commons 6363 Agronomy Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The UBC Vision Health Volunteers teams is hosting a fun-filled info session on rare and common eye diseases! During this event, you will be able to learn about vision health, listen to guest speakers, play games, and win prizes! Come join us on November 28 at 5pm in Orchard Commons Room 4004.

Free

Fish communication in a noisy and ever-changing underwater world

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL) 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Speaker: Dr. Kieran Cox, Liber Ero and NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University The diversity of biotic and abiotic sounds that fill marine ecosystems has become polluted by anthropogenic […]

Professional Development with Patrick MacKenzie

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Join us for a conversation with Patrick Mackenzie as he shares his own journey in migration work, highlighting real-world applications, challenges, and career paths beyond academia. This event is organized […]

Free

Pizza and Proposals: ISI Fund Student Led Projects

First Nations Longhouse 1985 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Do you have an idea of how to use up to $25,000 to bring the Indigenous Strategic Plan to action? Are you looking for a supportive space to explore this opportunity further?   Regardless of where you may be at in the proposal writing process, please join us for an informal opportunity to connect and get […]

Job Search for New Grads

Online/Virtual Event

Completing your UBC degree is a huge milestone. It also marks the transition to a new life and career stage, and finding work as a new graduate can be challenging. This workshop will discuss strategies for understanding and approaching finding work as a new graduate.

Indigenous Holiday Craft Fair

First Nations Longhouse 1985 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The First Nations House of Learning invites the UBC community to its second annual Indigenous Holiday Craft Fair, which showcases Indigenous art and crafts for sale. Indigenous students, faculty, staff, and community members will be displaying and selling their art and handmade crafts. Last year, this included original art pieces, small leather goods, beaded jewelry […]

Free

Colonizing Liberia: The Constitution of American Empire before the Insular Cases

Green College 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Truth and Imagination: A Green College Leading Scholars Series Jedidiah Kroncke, Law, University of Hong Kong Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed Wednesday, December 4, 5-6:30 pm Over the 20th century, a variety of scholarship has explored aspects of “American imperialism” or “American empire” as the United States progressively spread its influence across the […]

Data Bites – Best Practices for Organizing File Directories

Online/Virtual Event

Do you struggle with organizing your research materials? This 30-minute workshop highlights practical techniques for directory structure conventions and directory names that will help organize your files in a way that is meaningful to both you and others. Location: ONLINE (A zoom link will be sent to registrants 3 hours before event start.)

Free