Celebrating the release of Sea Change Anthropogenic issues – climate change, resource overexploitation, and pollution – have left visible marks on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic oceans which border Canada. These changes will affect the ecosystems, economies, and people who live along these coasts and are a formidable challenge in building resilient and sustainable oceans and […]

Join Grapes to Glass – a four-session Wine Education and Tasting Series presented by the UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems. Learn about the important elements of wine production, from grape-growing to enjoying the finished product, with a special focus on B.C. wines. Tour the UBC Wine Library – home to 4,000 unique bottles […]

CS Distinguished Lectures are free and open to everyone.  No registration is required. Location:  Fred Kaiser Building (2332 Main Mall), Room 2020/2030 Speaker:  Dr. Kathi Fisler, Brown University Title:  Socially-Responsible Computing Education: Views from a Researcher Abstract: Efforts to teach ethics in university-level CS have been around since the 1970s. In the last few years, […]

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Trites Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries PI, Marine Mammal Research Unit Archeologists examining ancient bones recovered from the middens of Indigenous tribes concluded that a local, non-migratory population of fur seals once bred along the outer coastline of Vancouver Island and Washington State. They further concluded that these fur seal […]