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Research Talk by Dr. David Almedia: Health as a Daily Experience: Lessons from 42,243 Days of US Adults
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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 […]
Map production with QGIS
Map production with QGIS
This is an introductory workshop focusing on the fundamental concepts and skills needed to begin using QGIS to explore and analyze spatial data. It is also meant to help you understand how to get started composing a map document for print production. By the end of this workshop, attendees will have a basic understanding of […]
Research Talk by Dr. David Almedia: Health as a Daily Experience: Lessons from 42,243 Days of US Adults
Research Talk by Dr. David Almedia: Health as a Daily Experience: Lessons from 42,243 Days of US Adults
Title: "Health as a Daily Experience: Lessons from 42,243 Days of US Adults" Speaker: Dr. David Almeida is a Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and a faculty member of the Center for Healthy Aging at Penn State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Victoria. Dr. Almeida’s research […]
Completing the Circle: A Path Towards Nutrient Circularity in Food Systems
Completing the Circle: A Path Towards Nutrient Circularity in Food Systems
Can we achieve balance in the nutrient cycle? In an ideal world the nutrients in soil, such as phosphorus and nitrogen, flow through the entire food system, growing into plants, which animals and humans eat, and eventually those same nutrients return back to the soil, beginning the cycle once again. But in our food system, […]
Purposeful, accountable, and patient-informed: Rethinking measurement practices in health services research
Purposeful, accountable, and patient-informed: Rethinking measurement practices in health services research
Skye Barbic, PhD, MSc, BSc (OT), BSc Scientist, CHÉOS Associate Professor, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, UBC Purposeful, accountable, and patient-informed: Rethinking measurement practices in health services research Reliable and valid quantification of clinical outcomes is critical for health services research, clinical practice, and policy making. In health services research, there is a […]
Lighten Our Darkness: Light, Space and Mosaics
Lighten Our Darkness: Light, Space and Mosaics
In the series Ways of Seeing Byzantine Art and Material Culture Liz James, History of Art, University of Sussex Coach House, Green College, UBC, and livestreamed Thursday, January 26, 5-6:30 pm, with reception to follow This talk looks at Byzantine wall mosaics in their physical settings. The focus is on the ways in which mosaics […]
The Anthropocene Ocean: challenges and prospects for ocean sustainability
The Anthropocene Ocean: challenges and prospects for ocean sustainability
Speaker: Dr. Jean-Baptiste Jouffray Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University Humans have become a dominant force of planetary change. This epoch, referred to as the Anthropocene, implies profound alterations to the Earth’s marine and terrestrial ecosystems upon which so many people depend. The prospect of an era of blue growth, in particular, poses unprecedented sustainability and […]