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 […]
Esri StoryMaps are a map-based presentation tool from the GIS software distributor Esri. Anyone with an ArcGIS Online account can create a StoryMap, and they are a good way to tell a story with maps, pictures, videos, and text. They can be used in place of PowerPoint, especially for those who would like to incorporate […]
In the series China Power Maria Repnikova, Global Communication, Georgia State University Coach House, Green College, UBC, and livestreamed Wednesday, February 1, 5-6:30 pm, followed by a reception Co-hosted by the Centre for Chinese Research This talk will explore the workings of Chinese soft power initiatives in Africa through the empirical lens of China-Ethiopia encounters. […]
Join us for the Night of Ideas 2023 – an evening of creative thinking taking place in 200 cities and 100 countries around the world in early February 2023. In Vancouver, artists and speakers will reflect on More? Slow is Beautiful from their perspective. Presenters include Andrea Reimer, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Azul Carolina Duque, Ndidi Cascade, Tabitha […]
Professor Heidi Tworek and KJ Sharan will lead a 90 minute hybrid workshop on the different strategies of policy communication and how to use communication as an advocacy tool. We will work on communicating your research to a diverse set of policy audiences. We will discuss how to create and disseminate effective, inclusive, and powerful […]
There are many cases where it's helpful to combine data from multiple sources or tables. This workshop will introduce how to work with multiple data frames in R. Participants are expected to already be familiar with R and RStudio. At the end of this workshop, you will be able to: Understand the need to work […]
Reception to follow xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees Liu Institute for Global Issues 6476 NW Marine Dr, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 The future of the ocean is essential to the planet’s future and human life. Climate change intersects profoundly with biodiversity, food security for billions of humans, culture, and economy and peace. […]
This workshop will introduce the Unix shell, a powerful way to communicate with your computer more directly through a command line interface. There are many ways to interact with a computer. Most of the time we click on things and select options with a cursor through a graphical user interface (GUI). A command line is […]
in the series Animating Archives: Memory, Community, Creation Olivia Michiko Gagnon, Theatre and Film; Leora Morris, Theatre and Film; and Ori Tenenboim, Journalism, Writing and Media Coach House, Green College, UBC, and livestreamed Thursday, February 2, 5-6:30 pm This roundtable approaches the question and the problem of "the archive" from multiple disciplinary perspectives, including theatre, […]
Speaker: Dr. Julia K. Baum Professor and President’s Chair, Ocean Ecology and Global Change, University of Victoria Climate change-amplified marine heatwaves now pose an imminent threat to the world’s tropical coral reefs. On almost all coral reefs, however, climate change is superimposed on a suite of local anthropogenic stressors, and available evidence suggests that these […]
Michael Byers (UBC Political Science) and Aaron Boley (UBC Physics and Astronomy) will be speaking about their upcoming book (April 2023) "Who Owns Outer Space? International Law, Astrophysics, and the Sustainable Development of Space" at the Vancouver Institute at UBC.
We will introduce Voyant, a free suite of visual tools for text analysis. Participants will get hands-on experience applying common tools within Voyant to a corpus. No prior experience with text analysis is required. This workshop is part of the Digital Toolkit workshop series presented by the UBC Library Research Commons. Location details Location: *ONLINE* […]
TikTok is the fastest growing social media platform with over 1 billion global monthly users. What does this mean for the climate emergency? This “Ask-Me Anything” with Ian Gill, Global Sustainability Lead at TikTok, will explore the Chinese social media giant’s popularity, its corporate climate policy and targets, and how it provides a platform for […]
In the series Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor Vivo Per Questo - Power to the Words - Canada Tour Amir Issaa, Rapper, Record Producer and Activist Coach House, Green College, UBC, and livestreamed Tuesday, February 7, 5-6:30 pm, with reception to follow This event has been organized in partnership with the Department of […]
This workshop is meant to introduce you to the set of virtualization tools referred to as Docker, which allow you to use, create, and share container images. Containers create small reproducible computing workspaces on your computer. We'll cover the basics of Docker containerization and the platform of tools surrounding it. We'll also cover Docker's relevance to both general […]
UBC-DIBS is thrilled to announce this year’s outstanding line-up of researchers and practitioners sharing their field and lab projects using the behavioural and decision sciences to "nudge for good". Seminars are 10-11am PT on select Fridays.
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
New to literature reviews? Looking to brush up your skills? This is the workshop for you! We will cover the purposes of literature reviews; the different types of reviews; finding the right databases; developing effective search strategies; locating scholarly articles, theses/dissertations, books, and more; and resources to help you keep track of your research. There […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Abstract: While Git is a fantastic tool for version control of software, written content and other collections of small files, it can become unmanageable for large, multi-GB data files. Over the years several different Git extensions that reduce the impact of large files in your Git repository were developed, e.g. git-annex and Git LSF. DataLad […]
Tuesday, February 27, 2023 5:00-6:00 PM, Reception with lights refreshments to follow Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL) Theatre, 2202 Main Mall RSVP: https://forms.gle/WoR2o1X6wTsXWRap9 The ocean’s capacity to sustain life and support human wellbeing is increasingly threatened by intensifying climate change that exacerbates other non-climatic human stressors such as overfishing, pollution, and invasive species. The world […]
This "Funding Your Research in Germany" information session gives an overview of the German research landscape, opportunities and funding programs in support of research collaboration with Germany. This session will be led by representatives from the DAAD-German Academic Exchange Service, DFG-German Research Foundation and the European Delegation to Canada. The presentation from the European Delegation […]
New to literature reviews? Looking to brush up your skills? This is the workshop for you! We will cover the purposes of literature reviews; the different types of reviews; finding the right databases; developing effective search strategies; locating scholarly articles, theses/dissertations, books, and more; and resources to help you keep track of your research. There […]
R is popular for many applications including data visualization and statistical analysis. This beginner orientation is suitable for people with little or no R experience. It will help you decide whether R is the right tool for your data analysis needs and introduce R terminology using the RStudio interface. The workshop is one hour, followed […]
Research Talk Title: The Role of Historical Change for Adult Development and Aging Speaker: Dr. Denis Gerstorf is Full Professor and chair of Developmental and Educational Psychology at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. As lifespan developmental scholar, he is interested in better understanding how our everyday lives and developmental trajectories are often closely intertwined with and co-regulated […]
While many argue that the best way to learn to code is to simply start coding, having the right set of tools makes coding much more enjoyable and productive. In this workshop, we explore the differences between development environments and basic text editors, and we will set up a simple development environment using Visual Studio […]
Speaker: Dr. Nicola Smith Liber Ero Postdoctoral Research Fellow Changing Ocean Research Unit Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries AERL Theatre/Zoom. Please RSVP: https://oceans.ubc.ca/news-and-events/iof-seminars/weekly-seminars/ Humans are changing Earth’s climate and ecological systems at unprecedented rates. Major threats to the diversity of life include overexploitation, invasive species, and climate change. Dr. Smith’s research aims to study […]