The EDI Scholars-in-Residence program is hosting a Disability Justice Book Club across Winter Term 2. The club, led by Dr. Jennifer Gagnon, will explore themes of disability justice, ableism, allyship, and what it means to be disabled in academia. We will read a selection of texts each month before meeting to discuss takeaways. This club […]
Become a parliamentary guide! Are you a bilingual student attending a Canadian university? The Parliamentary Tour Program offers full-time student jobs in the summer season. As a Parliamentary Guide, you will work in the heart of Canadian democracy by leading guided tours, facilitating programming, and welcoming hundreds of thousands of visitors to Parliament. Join us […]
Nick Ainsworth, MD Clinical Fellow, Psychiatry, UBC Major depressive disorder (depression) is a common condition affecting older adults, also called late-life depression (LLD), and can negatively impact overall health, including by increasing the risk for dementia and of poor outcomes from physical health conditions. Older adults whose depression does not respond to initial treatment are […]
Please join us on Wednesday, January 22nd, from 12:00–2:00pm at the Sty-wet-tan Great Hall in the First Nations House of Learning (The Longhouse) for an Indigenous STEM student welcome lunch. This is an opportunity for you to meet other Indigenous students, faculty, and staff; learn more about what supports and resources are available to you in pursuing […]
These sixty minute, weekly sessions – facilitated by Technologists and Pedagogy Experts from the CTLT – are designed for faculty and staff at UBC who are using, or thinking about using, Generative AI tools as part of their teaching, researching, or daily work. Each session is broken into 3 parts. First, a weekly insights presentation […]
An elegant debut collection that illuminates the contours of un/belonging. Dayo: a Tagalog word referring to someone who exists in a place not their own. A wanderer, migrant worker, exile or simply a stranger. At its core, the poems in Dayo interrogate whether belonging can exist in a society suffused with violence. Here, the poet, […]
