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 […]
Meet the people that make UBC a top-40 research university and explore how you can get involved.
The 12th annual Bioinformatics/IOP/GSAT Research Day (BIG23) will come on March 28th, 2023 at Life Sciences Institute, UBC campus. Registration is now open! The BIG Research day is an annual tradition of the Bioinformatics, Interdisciplinary Oncology and Genome Science + Technology graduate programs at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. Over 100 graduate […]
Learn how to create your own podcast in this introductory and interactive workshop. This workshop will cover all levels of podcast production, including content creation, recording, editing, and promotion. No previous podcasting experience is necessary. This workshop will also cover the basics of Audacity, a free sound-editing software. Audacity can be used for many digital […]
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 […]
This workshop will focus on tools (mostly in base R) to perform customized operations in R including looping, nested looping, and conditional statements. This workshop is intended to expand the capabilities of R users with moderate experience of the language/software. The workshop is one hour, followed by an optional 30 minute practice period to reinforce […]
A UBC public dialogue event centered around the importance of peer-led work, with formerly incarcerated lived-experience speakers.
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 […]
Presenters: Yulia Egorova (PhD, EOAS) Global diversity and biomass of mesoeplagic mesozooplankton Supervisor: Evgeny Pakhomov Anna Schuhbauer (PDF, Fisheries Economics Research Unit) Global economic impact of scuba dive tourism Supervisor: Rashid Sumaila Ema Fatima (PhD, OCF) Bottom-trawl fishery is a flourishing industry in India: Who are trawling, who finances these operations and is it economically […]
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 […]
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.
R Markdown turns your analyses into high-quality, elegantly formatted, and fully reproducible output by putting together narrative text, code and plots. This workshop will walk you through the creation and usage of R Markdown. Participants are expected to already be familiar with R and the RStudio environment. The workshop is one hour, followed by an […]
Do you struggle with organizing your research materials? This 30-minute workshop highlights practical techniques for file formatting. Join us to learn more about data formats, data access, and preservation.
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.
After two years of design and construction, Third Quadrant Design is almost ready to unveil our addition to the UBC campus. Join us for our public open house where you will get to explore the building and see what carbon minimalism looks like. 🗓️ Friday, April 14th to Sunday, April 16th (10 AM to 4 […]
After two years of design and construction, Third Quadrant Design is almost ready to unveil our addition to the UBC campus. Join us for our public open house where you will get to explore the building and see what carbon minimalism looks like. 🗓️ Friday, April 14th to Sunday, April 16th (10 AM to 4 […]
After two years of design and construction, Third Quadrant Design is almost ready to unveil our addition to the UBC campus. Join us for our public open house where you will get to explore the building and see what carbon minimalism looks like. 🗓️ Friday, April 14th to Sunday, April 16th (10 AM to 4 […]
Join us on April 18 for the free, virtual Let’s Talk Overdose conference! This event will welcome over 1000 attendees to discuss innovations in the field and decide on next steps to mitigate the harms of the overdose crisis. View the program featuring 50+ expert speakers and register here: bit.ly/ltod2023
Do you struggle with organizing your research materials? This 30 mins workshop highlights practical techniques for file naming. Join us to develop a naming convention based on elements that are important to your work.
About the presentation: In this presentation, Dr. Sewankambo will speak about his longstanding career in global health and decolonization efforts within the field. About the presenter: Prof. Nelson K. Sewankambo MBChB, MSc, M.MED, FRCP, LLD (HC), a Professor of Medicine is the Principal (Head) of Makerere University College of Health Sciences and previously Dean 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 […]
Abstract: PyTables is a free and open-source Python library for managing large hierarchical datasets. It is built on top of numpy and the HDF5 scientific dataset library, and it focuses both on performance and interactive analysis of very large datasets. For large data streams (think multi-dimensional arrays or billions of records) it outperforms databases in […]