Are you interested in making your course materials more accessible and barrier free for all learners? Join us for an informal drop-in where you can chat with accessibility consultants, educational designers, and colleagues about accessibility. The accessibility drop-ins are for anyone who is developing course content or open educational resources (OER) and who is curious […]

Monday, February 10th, 2025 | 11:00 AM Fred Kaiser Building, Room 2020/2030 (2nd Floor) Students, staff, faculty and researchers – join us as Lisa M.P. Munoz, author of Women in Science Now and publicist behind the Emmy-nominated film Picture a Scientist presents: Women in Science Now: How to Use Science to Overcome the Remaining Obstacles to Equity Followed by a book signing […]

Join us for the third event in our Speaker Series on Migration, Racialization, and Inequality, featuring Jennifer A. Jones. She will present her talk, “Organizing for Inclusion? Race-Making and the Quest for Immigrant Rights in the U.S. South.” This event will be held in a hybrid format. Lunch will be served at 11:45 AM in […]

Audience: All faculty and staff at UBC Vancouver and Okanagan are welcome to attend.   Location: Zoom.  About this session:  Join Registered Clinical Counsellor and former UBC researcher, Jan Klimas for a unique mindfulness session to help ease the struggles that most of us face during life. Whether you are struggling to live a meaningful and fulfilling life, finding yourself avoiding painful emotions, feeling overtaken […]

Following Dr. Jones’ CMS Speaker Series lecture, join us for an engaging workshop on race and migration. In this informal conversation, political sociologist and race scholar Jennifer A. Jones will reflect on the evolving scholarship on race and immigration, drawing on her research and personal experiences from student to prize-winning author. The session includes time for […]

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 […]

Speaker: Rubee Dev, University of BC Globally, the burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) related morbidity and mortality in postpartum women has increased. Women who experience adverse pregnancy outcomes have an increased lifelong risk of developing CVD. Yet, CVD amongst postpartum women remains under-studied, under-screened, and under-diagnosed. Early diagnostic testing and risk-based recommendations are required to combat […]

Join the UBC Sustainability Hub for a public talk on the "how-to" foundations of effective climate advocacy. Hear from Andrea Reimer, former Vancouver city councillor and current UBC Adjunct Professor, drawing on her experiences from identifying decision-makers, crafting the ask, and gathering support to get the deal done. This talk will be followed by a hands-on […]

Join us for an interactive session on dissemination of your Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project. We will discuss different approaches to writing SoTL and share guiding principles for writing in some of the most common SoTL genres: empirical research articles, reflective essays and conference presentations. We will also compare different styles of publications […]

Explore how generative AI, including Microsoft Co-Pilot and ChatGPT, can be used to design and evaluate formative assessments that enhance student learning and engagement. Join this hands-on session to delve into the integration of generative AI as a formative assessment tool. As large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI become more prevalent, formative assessment takes on […]

In this Indigenous Speakers Series session, we will have a conversation with Dana-Lyn Mackenzie, a member of the Hwlitsum First Nation, lawyer, and Senior Manager, EDI & Indigeneity, at the Faculties of Applied Science and Land and Food Systems. Dana-Lyn is the recipient of two UBC President’s Staff Awards for Advancing Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence […]

What is the relationship between comics and place? How can comics tie us to memory, history, and emotion? Join us for the panel talk “Places of Memory in Graphic Novels” to explore how graphic novels preserve memories through space and time. Co-organized by the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative and LunarFest Vancouver, the panel features […]

These sixty minute, weekly sessions – facilitated by Technologists and Pedagogy Experts from the CTLT – are designed for faculty and staff at UBC who are using, or thinking about using, Generative AI tools as part of their teaching, researching, or daily work. Each session is broken into 3 parts. First, a weekly insights presentation […]

Speaker: Gregory Marchildon, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto Are there contemporary policy lessons which can be drawn from the history of Medicare? As the author of Tommy Douglas and the Quest for Medicare in Canada, Greg Marchildon will explore some of the answers to this question, especially concerning the single-payer and single-tier nature of the […]

Online The Drop-In Clinics are open for administrators of UBC weblogs or websites to get one-on-one support in WordPress and Wiki for Teaching and Learning or Administrative purposes. Participants should come prepared with a list of questions specific to their sites when attending this session. Specialists at the clinic will assist you in addressing and […]

Join the Land and Food Systems Learning Centre on Thursday, February 13th at 2pm for a discussion with Elizabeth Novak, a Lecturer in Food, Nutrition and Health, and Sarah Schneidereit, a graduate student, who will be sharing insights from their Students as Partners fund project. Discover how they collaborated to create dynamic, interactive H5P content […]