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- Audience – Faculty and Staff – Vancouver
Imaiyạchi: Transcending Historical Trauma and Living Ancestral Visions Imagined for Us as Native Women
Online/Virtual EventHow Local Governments Create Climate Policy and How You Can Help
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) 2260 West Mall, VancouverExhibition: Leslie Cheung 張國榮 – Hong Kong Icon (1956-2003)
Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, VancouverExhibition: Leslie Cheung 張國榮 – Hong Kong Icon (1956-2003)
Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, VancouverTidy up your data: Using MS Excel & Power Query to transform and organize your data
Online/Virtual EventImagining Climate Futures Through Verbatim Theatre
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts 6265 Crescent Road, VancouverBeaty Nocturnal: Pressed Plants – Making a Herbarium
Beaty Biodiversity Centre 2212 Main Mall, VancouverUBC Bands: Songs and Changes
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts 6265 Crescent Road, VancouverExhibition: Leslie Cheung 張國榮 – Hong Kong Icon (1956-2003)
Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, VancouverExhibition: Leslie Cheung 張國榮 – Hong Kong Icon (1956-2003)
Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, VancouverExhibition: Leslie Cheung 張國榮 – Hong Kong Icon (1956-2003)
Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, VancouverWeek of Events
The Willful Plot exhibition
The Willful Plot exhibition
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is open from Tuesday to Friday 10 am to 5 pm; Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 pm; and closed Mondays and holidays. Derya Akay and Vivienne Bessette, Gabi Dao, Derek Jarman, Charmian Johnson, Glenn Lewis, Mike MacDonald, Rehab Nazzal, Dana Qaddah The Willful Plot brings together […]
Walk for Joy 2023
Walk for Joy 2023
Walk for Joy is an annual 9-week walking and rolling challenge aimed at promoting regular physical activity with friends or family. This challenge runs from January to April and is open to anyone. Join as a team or challenge yourself. Get moving, win prizes and have fun! Registration closes Jan 29.
Exhibition: Leslie Cheung 張國榮 – Hong Kong Icon (1956-2003)
Exhibition: Leslie Cheung 張國榮 – Hong Kong Icon (1956-2003)
Co-presented by UBC Asian Library and the Department of Asian Studies, Leslie Cheung 張國榮: Hong Kong Icon (1956-2003) commemorates the 20th anniversary of the passing of the legendary Hong Kong actor, singer, and performer, Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing. In addition to books and scholarly journals, the exhibition features a collection of original Asian-language film posters from some of Cheung’s most popular and critically […]
Imaiyạchi: Transcending Historical Trauma and Living Ancestral Visions Imagined for Us as Native Women
Imaiyạchi: Transcending Historical Trauma and Living Ancestral Visions Imagined for Us as Native Women
The Women’s Health Seminar Series features multidisciplinary research on women’s health. The goal of the series is to provide multidisciplinary training and mentorship to faculty, students, and community members across a broad range of women’s health research topics. Speakers will present their research regarding the biological, psychological, behavioural, economic and social impacts on women’s health […]
Steps, tools, & resources for promoting reproducibility
Steps, tools, & resources for promoting reproducibility
Researchers across disciplines have called for reproducible research as an attainable minimum standard for assessing the value of scholarly claims, particularly when full independent replication of a study is not feasible. Making your research more transparent and reproducible pays off and is explicitly in the self-interest of every ambitious, career-oriented researcher. This session will illustrate […]
How Local Governments Create Climate Policy and How You Can Help
How Local Governments Create Climate Policy and How You Can Help
How can students play a role in critical climate policy development in the Vancouver area? In this moderated conversation we will explore the policy being developed by local governments to catalyze a reduction in carbon emissions. Learn about the key actions being advanced, the challenges in the way, and opportunities a different future will create. […]
32nd Annual Women’s Memorial March: Resources, Supports and Transportation
32nd Annual Women’s Memorial March: Resources, Supports and Transportation
The First Nations House of Learning and the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office are collaborating to provide resources, supports and transportation for anyone who wants to attend the 32nd Annual February 14 Women’s Memorial March. Everyone is welcome to attend the march and to bring guests on the bus as support. You can register for free bus […]
Accessing modern and historical census data
Accessing modern and historical census data
Are you interested in learning how to access modern and historic census data? Join a virtual presentation with the Statistics Canada Library as we learn about the tools, web pages, and resources that will help you with your census research. In particular, you’ll learn: How to access summary census information from 1665-2021 How to find […]
Research Data Centre (RDC) Rundown
Research Data Centre (RDC) Rundown
An overview of the Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) and Research Data Centre (RDC) program, including some little-known or misunderstood tidbits about access to the data, training initiatives & resources, and some of the exciting linked datasets newly available in the RDCs. Grant Gibson, Assistant Director Research & Evaluation, CRDCN This event is part […]
Introduction to REST APIs with OpenRefine
Introduction to REST APIs with OpenRefine
This workshop will introduce participants to web APIs with a focus on using REST APIs for accessing data. Learn about common HTTP methods and responses used in REST APIs and how to understand and extract information from data in JSON format. This workshop will include a tutorial on some of OpenRefine's API functions, including fetching […]
Enhancing Couples Relationships Workshop
Enhancing Couples Relationships Workshop
Audience: All faculty and staff at UBC Vancouver and Okanagan Location: Zoom Description: This is a one-hour instructor-led training session that combines lecture elements with a variety of engaging elements like Q&A, group discussion, as well as polling and chat functionality. A loving relationship can be one of the most rewarding experiences in life. Early […]
Abortion to Abolition: The Path to Reproductive Health & Justice in Canada
Abortion to Abolition: The Path to Reproductive Health & Justice in Canada
About the Talk In the face of the fall of Roe in the US in 2022, it is critical for people in Canada to understand the unique and progressive legal standing of abortion in this country, and recognize our greatest threats to reproductive justice. Sexual violence, criminalization of sex work, reproductive oppression of Indigenous people; […]
My Privilege, My Responsibility: A Higher Calling To Do Better in an Era of Truth, Reconciliation & Redress with Sheila North
My Privilege, My Responsibility: A Higher Calling To Do Better in an Era of Truth, Reconciliation & Redress with Sheila North
In commoreration of February (14th), a day to honour the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, the Office of Respectful Environments, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at the Faculty of Medicine invites you to join our conversation with Sheila North. In this sixth session of the Indigenous Speaker Series, we will learn about the activism of Sheila North […]
Exploring BC’s Community Information Tool
Exploring BC’s Community Information Tool
The Community Information Tool (CIT) is a central access point for data to help planners, policy makers, economic developers, researchers, and academics thrive in the digital economy. The CIT compiles over 40 data sets offering insights into regions across B.C. with integrated socio-economic, connectivity, and community assets data. The CIT assists users to better understand […]
An Introduction to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
An Introduction to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) uses systematic and methodological inquiry into teaching and learning (behaviours/practices, attitudes, and values) with the goal of improving teaching and learning by making findings public (Hutchings, & Shulman, 1999; Potter & Kustra, 2011). During this session, we will: Break down the definition of SoTL, Explain how to start […]
Community and stakeholder engagement for ethical data-driven research
Community and stakeholder engagement for ethical data-driven research
Engagement with the individuals interested in, impacted by, and responsible for implementing the findings of research has been a methodological paradigm shift in the health research sector in the last decade and is gaining popularity in other disciplines. Embedding community, stakeholders, patients, clients, or end-users in research is an ethical approach which leads to results […]
Individual Consultation with a Learning Designer about Your Course
Individual Consultation with a Learning Designer about Your Course
Do you have questions and challenges about creating meaningful and successful learning experiences for your students? Maybe you want help in the process of teaching your course in online, hybrid or blended modes. Request a virtual one on one course consultation with a Learning Designer to explore ways to enhance your students’ learning experience. This […]
WordPress & Wiki Clinic (Drop-In)
WordPress & Wiki Clinic (Drop-In)
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 resolving […]
Tidy up your data: Using MS Excel & Power Query to transform and organize your data
Tidy up your data: Using MS Excel & Power Query to transform and organize your data
This workshop provides participants with a framework to recognize and tidy messy data and some practical skills in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Power Query to enable data collection in a tidy format, so that analysis is possible. Hands-on participants must have MS Excel (2019+) with Power Query. Cairo Sanders is UVic Libraries Data Analyst supporting […]
Imagining Climate Futures Through Verbatim Theatre
Imagining Climate Futures Through Verbatim Theatre
Drawing from interviews with UBC students, staff and faculty, join for a play reading of this verbatim theatre project to advance conversation about the climate emergency. Led by theatre artist and journalist Joel Bernbaum, this performance aims to spark ideas for action towards a more hopeful climate future.
Beaty Nocturnal: Pressed Plants – Making a Herbarium
Beaty Nocturnal: Pressed Plants – Making a Herbarium
The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is pleased to invite you to attend the book launch of an amazing new book Pressed Plants, Making a Herbarium by Linda PJ Lipsen (Linda Jennings), curator of the UBC Beaty Biodiversity Museum Herbarium. You are invited to learn more about pressing plants and to socialize with fellow naturalists, botanists, and hobbyists during the event. There […]
The Phil Lind Initiative: John McWhorter
The Phil Lind Initiative: John McWhorter
THE PHIL LIND INITIATIVE: (UN)CIVIL DISCOURSE John Mcwhorter - Beyond Free Speech: Understanding the True Nature of What Divides Us Feb 16, 2023, 6pm. Frederic Wood Theatre The United States is polarized like never before. Accompanied by a high degree of negative partisanship and the unchecked spread of misinformation, political violence and uncivil discourse—the use […]
VanBUG Bioinformatics Seminar
VanBUG Bioinformatics Seminar
Our seminar is ~1.5 hour long followed by networking over light refreshments. If you are interested in attending this seminar in person (or the meet-the-speaker session before the seminar at 5PM), please fill out our RSVP form. Location: Cullen Family Lecture Theatre (Room 1477) * Providence Building, Level 1 St. Paul's Hospital 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC V6Z […]
Cinema Thinks the World: Rewind & Play (2022)
Cinema Thinks the World: Rewind & Play (2022)
A free screening of Rewind and Play, followed by a discussion and Q&A led by UBC scholars and local experts.
UBC Bands: Songs and Changes
UBC Bands: Songs and Changes
The music of Jodi Proznick feat. JUNO award winning bassist with Concert Winds, Symphonic Winds, and solo guest artist, Jodi Proznick. Symphonic Wind Ensemble Jaelem Bhate conductor Concert Winds Jaelem Bhate conductor Josh Rauw, Benjamin Vanderkruk, Maggie Whiteman Graduate Assistant Conductors PROGRAMME William Bolcolm Graceful Ghost Rag Brant Karrick Bayou Breakdown Dana Wilson Sang! The music of Jodi Proznick feat. the JUNO award […]
JEDDI Seminar Series
JEDDI Seminar Series
The Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics and the UBC Sauder Dean's Office are excited to announce the launch of our new JEDDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, Decolonization, & Inclusion) Seminar Series featuring academic and business thought leaders sharing their experiences and strategies for creating more just, equitable, diverse, decolonized, and inclusive workplaces. Tues., Oct. […]
Black Lives, Black Voices and Black Identities in the Faculty of Medicine
Black Lives, Black Voices and Black Identities in the Faculty of Medicine
To commemorate Black History Month, the Faculty of Medicine's Office of Respectful Environments, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion invites you to join our panel on Friday, February 17, 2023 from 12–1:30 pm. This panel will provide a space for an important conversation about the experiences of Black members of the Faculty and the challenges they face to […]
Kids Take Over UBC!
Kids Take Over UBC!
Kids Take Over UBC is BACK and BIGGER than ever! This Family Day weekend, kids can play their way across campus at this annual arts & culture festival on Sunday, February 19, from 11am-5pm. Join UBC campus partners for family-friendly fun, including storytelling in multiple languages, children’s performer Will Stroet, fairy-tale characters from the world […]