Event Series Mindful Mondays with Aisha

Mindful Mondays with Aisha

Online/Virtual Event

Audience: All faculty and staff at UBC Vancouver and Okanagan  Location: Zoom.  Description: Join Aisha Tejani for a 20-minute, virtual mindfulness session every Monday from September 11 to December 18 – you can take part in a single session or multiple sessions!   Taking place from 9:30-9:50 am join Aisha and an engaged community to […]

Data Bites – Introduction to depositing datasets in Borealis

Online/Virtual Event

Storing your data in a repository like Borealis makes it easy for other researchers, publishers, and collaborators to find, use, and cite your data. It supports the Open Science movement goals of transparency, accessibility, and collaboration, and can increase attention to your work. Please join us for this short hands-on workshop to learn how to […]

Free

“A Closer Look at the Role of Microaggressions in Racism” with Hieu Pham-Fraser

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Microaggressions continue to be the most pervasive and undetected contributor to racism in many institutions, including educational settings. However, microaggressions are not micro. For those who are the target of microaggressions, severe consequences on mental well-being and life trajectories can result. In this presentation, Hieu will use her children’s picture book, The Little Girl to examine ‘What […]

Free

Using R Markdown

Online/Virtual Event

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 […]

Free

Web scraping with Python

Online/Virtual Event

Abstract: The internet is a trove of information. A lot of it is publicly available and thus suitable for use in research. Extracting that information and putting it in an organized format for analysis can however be extremely tedious. Web scraping tools allow to automate parts of that process and Python is a popular language […]

Free
Event Series Mindful Mondays with Aisha

Mindful Mondays with Aisha

Online/Virtual Event

Audience: All faculty and staff at UBC Vancouver and Okanagan  Location: Zoom.  Description: Join Aisha Tejani for a 20-minute, virtual mindfulness session every Monday from September 11 to December 18 – you can take part in a single session or multiple sessions!   Taking place from 9:30-9:50 am join Aisha and an engaged community to […]

French – Discovering Cheese – Lower Intermediate to Advanced

UBC Robson Square 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

A la découverte des fromages -  Cheese appreciation workshop  Cheese has long been an important part of traditional French culture. France has documented hundreds of varieties of cheese, and the average person is said to eat more than 26kg of cheese a year.   In this two-hour workshop, explore – and taste! – eight major families […]

$30
Event Series Paper-making Workshop

Paper-making Workshop

Pulp and Paper Centre 2385 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Craft your own unique greeting cards this season while uncovering the art and science of traditional paper-making and the latest in bio-based materials to enhance paper characteristics! Engage in this 2.5 hour hands-on workshop, where you'll transform pulp slurry into paper at our iconic paper-making lab housed in the famous Pulp & Paper Centre, a hub […]

$120
Event Series Paper-making Workshop

Paper-making Workshop

Pulp and Paper Centre 2385 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Craft your own unique greeting cards this season while uncovering the art and science of traditional paper-making and the latest in bio-based materials to enhance paper characteristics! Engage in this 2.5 hour hands-on workshop, where you'll transform pulp slurry into paper at our iconic paper-making lab housed in the famous Pulp & Paper Centre, a hub […]

$120
Event Series Mindful Mondays with Aisha

Mindful Mondays with Aisha

Online/Virtual Event

Audience: All faculty and staff at UBC Vancouver and Okanagan  Location: Zoom.  Description: Join Aisha Tejani for a 20-minute, virtual mindfulness session every Monday from September 11 to December 18 – you can take part in a single session or multiple sessions!   Taking place from 9:30-9:50 am join Aisha and an engaged community to […]

Alumni Office Hours with Sami Sekhon – Senior Consultant @ Deloitte | Embracing your Authentic Self: A Career Starter Discussion

Brock Hall 1874 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The UBC Career Centre is excited to bring you a virtual mentorship and networking opportunity to connect with UBC alum, Sami Sekhon. This event is open to all students and alumni. Please prepare one question for Sami's Office Hour and email it to connie.huang@ubc.ca. You will also be given an opportunity to ask your questions […]