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Managing Student Loan Repayment | Webinar | May 16 (1:00 – 2:00 PM PDT)

UBC Vancouver Campus Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Register here: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eQeKbnzs5J57s0u Join UBC Enrolment Services Advisors at this webinar for students whose Canadian student loans are due to go into repayment. These topics will be covered: - When you have to begin repaying your student loan - Understanding the student loan repayment process - Negotiating your repayment terms - What your options are […]

Featured Featured Event Series West Coast Virtual Fair: Career, Volunteer & Graduate Schools

West Coast Virtual Fair: Career, Volunteer & Graduate Schools

Online/Virtual Event

West Coast Virtual Fair: Career, Volunteer & Graduate Schools Dates: Wednesday, May 17 & Thursday, May 18 Time: 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM (PT) Location: Eventus Virtual Fair Platform Curious about where your degree can take you? Connect with 80+ employers, graduate schools, volunteer organizations and professional programs to explore your options at the West […]

Featured Featured Event Series West Coast Virtual Fair: Career, Volunteer & Graduate Schools

West Coast Virtual Fair: Career, Volunteer & Graduate Schools

Online/Virtual Event

West Coast Virtual Fair: Career, Volunteer & Graduate Schools Dates: Wednesday, May 17 & Thursday, May 18 Time: 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM (PT) Location: Eventus Virtual Fair Platform Curious about where your degree can take you? Connect with 80+ employers, graduate schools, volunteer organizations and professional programs to explore your options at the West […]

Event Series Introduction to Docker

Introduction to Docker

Online/Virtual Event

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 […]

Free

Drop-In Career Advising for International Undergraduate Students

Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Irene Navarro, Career Educator, will be offering virtual drop-in advising for international undergraduate students from 1–3 PM Thursdays. International undergraduate students are encouraged to drop in – no appointment needed! – and ask any career questions they may have. Students will be seen individually for up to 10 minutes each (unless demand is low, in […]

Machine Learning: Finding pre-trained models for transfer learning

Online/Virtual Event

Abstract: Training models from scratch requires way too much data, time, and computing power (or money) to be a practical option. This is why transfer learning has become such a common practice: by starting with models trained on related problems, you are saving time and achieving good results with little data. Now, where do you […]

Free

Learning Together in a Good Way: Ethical Relationality and Indigenous Storywork with Shannon Leddy

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Dr. Shannon Leddy will guide participants through the process of phenomenological art inquiry, in which a dialogic approach to spending time with the work of Indigenous artists can reveal to viewers the ways in which their understandings of Indigenous peoples have been informed. Part of the Ethics of Trauma-Informed Research Webinar Mini-Series co-hosted by the […]

Data manipulation with dplyr

Online/Virtual Event

Data manipulation is a crucial part of data visualization and analysis. This workshop introduces common functions in the dplyr package to manipulate rows and columns. Participants are expected to already be familiar with R and the RStudio environment. The workshop is one hour, followed by an optional 30 minute practice period to reinforce what you […]

Free
Event Series Introduction to Machine Learning

Introduction to Machine Learning

Online/Virtual Event

This workshop is designed to provide participants with a foundational understanding of the concepts, techniques, and tools used in machine learning. Through a series of lectures and hands-on exercises, participants will learn about types of learning and get practical experience with some of the most popular machine learning algorithms and techniques such as regression, clustering, and […]

Free

Teaching as Research Epistemology – May 25, 2023

Online/Virtual Event

TAR Workshops are designed to give interns authentic teaching experiences and to apply their understanding of evidence-based teaching practices in the classroom or in an informal science education or outreach setting. Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, together with their teaching partner, identify a challenge to student learning in the classroom, develop new teaching resources or […]