Overview Connecting with our oceans is more crucial today than at any time in our history. Renowned marine scientist Sylvia Earle describes the Ocean as the Blue Heart of the planet. Today, due to environmental devaluing and destruction resulting in climate crisis, the world’s oceans are experiencing ecosystem collapse, biodiversity loss, and mass extinctions. Following […]
Overview Connecting with our oceans is more crucial today than at any time in our history. Renowned marine scientist Sylvia Earle describes the Ocean as the Blue Heart of the planet. Today, due to environmental devaluing and destruction resulting in climate crisis, the world’s oceans are experiencing ecosystem collapse, biodiversity loss, and mass extinctions. Following […]
This event aims to create a conversation for those who hold the role of both a parent and an academic. Several faculty members will be there to give a brief overview of their experience being an academic, as well as a parent, and how to navigate those roles (as both can be demanding!). We hope […]
Bring your friend, partner, roommate, or classmate! These small-group advising sessions will be facilitated by a career advisor, and will focus on answering questions, providing feedback, and sharing potential strategies. You might also meet other students who share the same questions.
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 […]
Knowledge is power, and the more you know about your financial responsibilities and opportunities, the better prepared you will be for your time at UBC. Feel more confident about the financial road ahead, and learn how your financial well-being can support your academic goals at UBC. Open to all UBC Indigenous students of all year […]
Do you struggle with organizing your research materials? This 30-minute workshop highlights practical techniques for creating a README file. A README is a guide to your data and assists other researchers to understand your dataset, its contents, provenance, licensing and how to interact with it.
Don’t know where to start planning your finances? Thinking about working to help you make some money on the side? This webinar is for you. Join Enrolment Services Advisors and International Student Advisors at this webinar to help you understand and learn about: - Costs of attending UBC - Creating a financial plan - The […]
This workshop will focus on tools (mostly in base R) to perform customized operations in R including looping, nested looping, and conditional statements. This workshop is intended to expand the capabilities of R users with moderate experience of the language/software. The workshop is one hour, followed by an optional 30 minute practice period to reinforce […]
Explore award opportunities both at UBC and beyond! Learn more about what award programs are looking for, ways to harness your individual strengths to stand out from the crowd, and how to translate your information for multiple award opportunities. Open to all UBC Indigenous students of all year levels. For any questions, please contact our […]
This workshop focuses on regression models to provide participants with a foundational understanding of machine learning concepts, techniques, and tools used for linear and nonlinear regression. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on exercises, participants will gain practical experience with regression algorithms, one of the most popular machine-learning techniques. The workshop begins with an overview […]
This event is online with simultaneous translation to Mandarin and Cantonese, and can be attended via Zoom. This webinar is part of Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Society “Be Well” lecture series The Guide to Buddhist Counseling (Routledge, 2023) is a go-to book in Buddhist counseling, this book is a valuable resource for Buddhist chaplains, […]
Do you struggle with organizing your research materials? This 30-minute workshop highlights practical techniques for directory structure conventions and directory names that will help organize your files in a way that is meaningful to both you and others.
Learn more about government student loans and grants, what benefits they can offer to help you reach your academic goals, and hopefully remove some of the stigma from ‘borrowing money’. Learn how to leverage your student loans to achieve additional financial support (like the UBC Bursary) and understand the repayment process. Open to all UBC […]
UBC's Bike Kitchen presents "The Right to Repair", a sustainability forum targeting industry issues surrounding the sale of “built-to-fail” products and consumers’ right to repair their own products across various industries.
Do you struggle with depositing research data for publications? This 45-minute workshop covers practical techniques and steps for depositing and describing research data in Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository, a bilingual, multi-disciplinary, secure, Canadian research data repository, supported by academic libraries and research institutions across Canada,
R is popular for many applications including data visualization and statistical analysis. This beginner orientation is suitable for people with little or no R experience. It will help you decide whether R is the right tool for your data analysis needs and introduce R terminology using the RStudio interface. The workshop is one hour, followed […]
Nothing beats a plan. With solid financial understanding, you can concentrate on what’s important – which is not worrying about money! Being able to budget confidently and learning the ins and outs of the UBC SSC, you should feel more confident about the financial aspects of your time at UBC. Open to all UBC Indigenous […]