- Events
- Type – Seminar
- No events scheduled for January 23, 2023.
Planning a Sustainable Campus: Balancing Growth and Climate Action at UBC
Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre 6163 University Boulevard, VancouverCompleting the Circle: A Path Towards Nutrient Circularity in Food Systems
Online/Virtual Event- No events scheduled for January 28, 2023.
- No events scheduled for January 29, 2023.
Week of Events
Dear Future Me…
Dear Future Me…
On January 24th from 5:30-6:30pm we will be hosting a motivational speaker, Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson, and writing letters to our future selves for the school term! Location details to be confirmed.
It Starts With Us: Contextualizing and Educating about the Holocaust
It Starts With Us: Contextualizing and Educating about the Holocaust
In commemoration of the upcoming International Holocaust Remembrance Day, join us on Wednesday, January 25th 2023 from 12:00 to 1:30 PM PST for “It Starts With Us: Contextualizing and Educating about the Holocaust“. This event will feature introductory remarks by Executive Director of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre (VHEC), Nina Krieger, a historical overview by historian and Professor Chris […]
Planning a Sustainable Campus: Balancing Growth and Climate Action at UBC
Planning a Sustainable Campus: Balancing Growth and Climate Action at UBC
How can UBC lead as a model for climate action in the context of a growing urban campus and neighbourhoods? Join Simon Donner, an interdisciplinary climate scientist and Professor at the University of British Columbia, for a presentation and moderated Q&A session on how UBC can take bold and courageous steps to balance growth with […]
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 […]
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 […]