BIG Difference BC 2022 Conference Friday, November 4, 2022 BIG Difference BC is an annual online conference that celebrates using the behavioural and decision sciences to have a positive, lasting impact across a wide range of topics and sectors in BC and beyond. This year we are excited to feature: Keynote on behavioural science and […]
Thinking about adding a global learning program to your UBC experience? Check out this introduction to Go Global designed to help you decide if a Go Global program is right for you. During Go Global 101 students will: • Learn about the types of programs available like Exchange, Summer Abroad, Global Seminars and Research Abroad […]
Which file format should you use when saving your research dataset? Besides the obvious question of how to encode your data structures in a file, you might also want to consider portability (the ability to write/read data across different operating systems and different programming languages and libraries), the inclusion of metadata (data description), I/O bandwidth […]
Learn more about our upcoming Global Seminar taking place in Guatemala! Philosophy 335 and Sociology 430 begin together by examining classical theories of oppressive power and civil society offered by European theorists struggling to understand the complexities of emerging modern industrial society (De Las Casas, Hobbes, Rousseau, Marx and Mill, Arendt and Marcuse), with some […]
Learn more about our upcoming Global Seminar taking place in Guatemala! Philosophy 335 and Sociology 430 begin together by examining classical theories of oppressive power and civil society offered by European theorists struggling to understand the complexities of emerging modern industrial society (De Las Casas, Hobbes, Rousseau, Marx and Mill, Arendt and Marcuse), with some […]
Learn more about our upcoming Global Seminar taking place in Guatemala! Philosophy 335 and Sociology 430 begin together by examining classical theories of oppressive power and civil society offered by European theorists struggling to understand the complexities of emerging modern industrial society (De Las Casas, Hobbes, Rousseau, Marx and Mill, Arendt and Marcuse), with some […]
Join this workshop to understand the basics of generating next-generation sequencing data and how to assess its quality, including choosing the appropriate Illumina sequencer for your experiment, understanding the outputted sequencing data format, and understanding the report generated by the quality control tool, FastQC.
Global Health Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: An Update of Global Health Initiatives in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems Presenter: Dr. Rickey Yada, Professor and Dean, Faculty of Land and Food Systems This will be a hybrid event, both on-line and in-person. Please register HERE: About the presenter: In 2014, Professor Rickey Yada was appointed Dean of […]
R is a popular, free software program used for quantitative analysis in both the humanities and sciences. Many state-of-the-art models and various graphs are available in R. This workshop covers data preparation and management, descriptive statistics, and common statistical analyses (T-test, ANOVA, correlation, regression). This workshop is for participants who already have a basic understanding […]
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. […]
Thinking about adding a global learning program to your UBC experience? Check out this introduction to Go Global designed to help you decide if a Go Global program is right for you. During Go Global 101 students will: • Learn about the types of programs available like Exchange, Summer Abroad, Global Seminars and Research Abroad […]
THIS IS A HYBRID EVENT–CHOOSE YOUR REGISTRATION TYPE USING THE LINK PROVIDED Join us for an open mapping party hosted by UBC Geography Students' Association YouthMappers chapter! You're invited to participate in an open map editing session to help improve the information found in OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap is an openly accessible map-based dataset covering the globe, […]
Green College Resident Members' Series Davide Andrea Zappulli, Philosophy Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, November 21, 8-9 pm The tiredness that you feel after a day of hard work, the bitterness of a cup of coffee, and the warmth of a nice conversation with your best friend: these are all conscious, experiential phenomena. It […]
The Woman Life Freedom Coalition invites you to take part in a moderated roundtable about the struggle for liberation and human dignity, and the next steps we can take as a global community in support of freedom movements inside Iran.
Health After 2020 dialogue sessions are held as part of the Health After 2020 program, which enables researchers to engage in interdisciplinary, cross-institutional collaborations that aim to create change in health and health producing systems. These collaborations respond to the broad effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and further our understanding of the determinants and experience […]