Ocean Education: Developing knowledge, caring, and taking action
Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description VancouverOcean Education: Developing knowledge, caring, and taking action
Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description VancouverIn-Person UBC Studios Open House and Tour
University Services Building (USB) 2329 West Mall, VancouverHearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees
UBC Robson Square 800 Robson Street, VancouverOcean Education: Developing knowledge, caring, and taking action
Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description VancouverOcean Education: Developing knowledge, caring, and taking action
Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description VancouverDrop-in financial advising with the Indigenous Student Support Team (ESA)
First Nations Longhouse 1985 West Mall, VancouverLearn to Create Interactive Computational Learning Experiences with Jupyter!
Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description VancouverImpact of Multi-Access Delivery on Student Learning and Sense of Course Community
Online/Virtual EventHow Can We Equitably Support Students’ Access, Engagement and Expectations, Across Hybrid and Multi-access Modalities?
Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description VancouverHearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees
UBC Robson Square 800 Robson Street, VancouverOcean Education: Developing knowledge, caring, and taking action
Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description VancouverOcean Education: Developing knowledge, caring, and taking action
Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description VancouverTeaching as Research: Defining Your Research Question & SoTL Methods – May 31, 2023
Online/Virtual EventHow do Instructors Design Experiential Education Activities in Large, First Year Courses in the Faculty of Arts?
Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description VancouveriCON South Asian Chronic Disease Webinar Series: Answering your Questions About Diabetes
Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description VancouverOcean Education: Developing knowledge, caring, and taking action
Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description VancouverOcean Education: Developing knowledge, caring, and taking action
Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description VancouverStudent Experience of Instruction: How to Interpret the Stats in Instructor Reports
Online/Virtual EventInformation Session: UBC Certificate in Biomedical Visualization and Communication
Online/Virtual EventConscious Learning and Academic Integrity: Designing Reflective Paths Towards Student Learning
Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description VancouverThe (in)fidelity of human mitochondrial gene expression
Life Sciences Centre 2350 Health Sciences Mall, VancouverOcean Education: Developing knowledge, caring, and taking action
Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description VancouverOcean Education: Developing knowledge, caring, and taking action
Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description VancouverOcean Education: Developing knowledge, caring, and taking action
Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description VancouverOcean Education: Developing knowledge, caring, and taking action
Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description VancouverOcean Education: Developing knowledge, caring, and taking action
Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description VancouverOcean Education: Developing knowledge, caring, and taking action
Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description VancouverHearts of Freedom at UBC, Free Film Screening of Passage to Freedom Documentary by Sheila Petzold
Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre 6163 University Boulevard, VancouverWeek of Events
Ocean Education: Developing knowledge, caring, and taking action
Ocean Education: Developing knowledge, caring, and taking action
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 […]
Ocean Education: Developing knowledge, caring, and taking action
Ocean Education: Developing knowledge, caring, and taking action
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 […]
Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees
Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees
The Hearts of Freedom exhibition featuring stories of Southeast Asian refugees in Canada will be hosted at UBC Robson Square for free public viewing from May 13 to May 31.
Online Book Club | Project Hail Mary
Online Book Club | Project Hail Mary
Embark upon a gripping interstellar adventure with Project Hail Mary, written by the author of The Martian. An astronaut awakens to find he’s the only survivor on a small spaceship that’s light years away from any humans. Unfortunately, he can’t remember a thing, including his assignment. Yet if he fails, the Earth and humanity are […]
UBC CPD: Island Medicine Conference: Updates, Skills, & Networking
UBC CPD: Island Medicine Conference: Updates, Skills, & Networking
This year's Island Medicine Conference features plenary, breakouts, panel discussions and workshops led by experts. Join us June 2 and 3 for topics seen by health professionals every day in practice, a networking reception and Skills Day — work as a team on responding to opioid toxicity, eye exam and slit lamp use, trigger finger, […]
Teaching and Learning in the Time of ChatGPT
Teaching and Learning in the Time of ChatGPT
This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. ChatGPT’s release in late 2022 – followed by similar generative artificial intelligence tools from Bing and Microsoft, among others – clearly has significant implications for teaching and learning in higher education, raising concerns about authorship, academic integrity, and assessment, among […]
Designing Your Life and Career
Designing Your Life and Career
Each day is an opportunity to think like a designer – to be curious, try things out, collaborate with others, reflect, and be mindful when making choices. In this workshop, we challenge you to think about the multiple possible futures you can design for your life and career.
Students as Partners in Course Re-design: Reflections from Student, Faculty, and Staff Partners on Learning Through Partnership
Students as Partners in Course Re-design: Reflections from Student, Faculty, and Staff Partners on Learning Through Partnership
This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. In 2021, UBC Vancouver made a commitment to position students as collaborators in the academic mission of the university through the Students as Partners (SaP) Initiative. The Initiative compensates undergraduate students working with faculty in the redesign and scholarly evaluation […]
In-Person UBC Studios Open House and Tour
In-Person UBC Studios Open House and Tour
This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. Learn what UBC Studios is all about at our in-person Open House! Our team will introduce our professional services including video, animation, graphic design and 3D scanning, as well as our easy to use Do-It-Yourself support services, including workshops, DIY […]
Exploring the Opportunities and Ethical Considerations of Generative AI in Teaching and Learning
Exploring the Opportunities and Ethical Considerations of Generative AI in Teaching and Learning
This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. Generative AI is increasingly being explored in the academic teaching and learning sphere, presenting new opportunities for interdisciplinary learning and critical thinking through data analysis and synthesis. At the same time, it raises important questions about academic integrity and ethics, […]
Qualtrics Studio
Qualtrics Studio
UBC supports the Qualtrics survey tool. Qualtrics is a powerful tool that offers UBC faculty, and staff new functionality in survey creation, data analysis, and reporting. Join us for the monthly Qualtrics studio virtual workshop and drop-in session. The session is geared towards UBC faculty and staff using Qualtrics as a teaching and research tool. […]
Ungrading Student Presentations: Toward Some New Paradigms for Evaluating Student Speaking
Ungrading Student Presentations: Toward Some New Paradigms for Evaluating Student Speaking
This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. Scholarly speaking is regularly expected and evaluated in classrooms across our campus—through in-class discussions, individual or group oral presentations, or other multimedia assignments (e.g. podcasts). Yet many of us, not being trained to teach “public speaking,” must assume that effective […]
Drop-in financial advising with the Indigenous Student Support Team (ESA)
Drop-in financial advising with the Indigenous Student Support Team (ESA)
With the start of the Winter session, the Indigenous Student Support Team from Enrolment Services will be resuming in-person drop-in advising for Indigenous students at the First Nations House of Learning. From 10:00 am and going until 3:00 pm, Indigenous students can ask financial (or other – we are happy to try and help however […]
Introduction to Oxygen XML editor
Introduction to Oxygen XML editor
Oxygen is a popular tool for editing and publishing XML documents and is frequently used to create Digital Editions when working with TEI XML. This workshop will provide a basic introduction to Oxygen and best practices around editing scholarly XML documents. At the end of this workshop participants will be able to: Idenfity features of […]
Learn to Create Interactive Computational Learning Experiences with Jupyter!
Learn to Create Interactive Computational Learning Experiences with Jupyter!
This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. Data is an important part of many disciplines – either as an object of study, or to illustrate an object of study. We want students to deeply understand the patterns and relationships present in data, in order to create meaningful […]
Impact of Multi-Access Delivery on Student Learning and Sense of Course Community
Impact of Multi-Access Delivery on Student Learning and Sense of Course Community
This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. As the world emerges from the pandemic, students are increasingly requesting more courses to be offered in a hybrid or multi-access format to provide greater flexibility during times of need. However, concerns have been raised about whether virtual participation will […]
WEBINAR: Our Losing Battle with Nature
WEBINAR: Our Losing Battle with Nature
Climate change has elevated the risk of extreme weather the world over. In British Columbia, a natural flood risk mitigator lies all around us in the water-absorbing power of trees. In fact, research has shown that even a modest loss of forest cover due to wildfire, logging and disease can cause surprisingly large increases in […]
How Can We Equitably Support Students’ Access, Engagement and Expectations, Across Hybrid and Multi-access Modalities?
How Can We Equitably Support Students’ Access, Engagement and Expectations, Across Hybrid and Multi-access Modalities?
This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. Join us for a collaborative workshop designed to explore hybrid and multi-access learning in diverse teaching contexts. This interactive session will focus on fostering equitable access and engagement in these learning modalities while acknowledging the creativity often needed to navigate […]
Increasing the Accessibility of Video
Increasing the Accessibility of Video
This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. How to make video more accessible? Captions, ASL, descriptive video…. it can be overwhelming. During this presentation, Educational Media Producer Michael Sider from UBC Studios will reveal solutions from free and do-it-yourself to professional. You’ll find practical tips, guidance and […]
Teaching as Research: Defining Your Research Question & SoTL Methods – May 31, 2023
Teaching as Research: Defining Your Research Question & SoTL Methods – May 31, 2023
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 […]
Literature Reviews: Mapping the Scholarly Conversation
Literature Reviews: Mapping the Scholarly Conversation
Literature reviews accomplish several purposes for scholars. In the introduction to a research article, research paper, or thesis chapter, for example, writers review relevant research in order to establish a research gap, problem, or need that the current study addresses. But how do writers summarize the scholarly conversation already underway and, then, join that conversation? […]
DIY Media Support Drop-In Session
DIY Media Support Drop-In Session
Are you working on a media project? Planning to produce video content for your course but don’t know where to start? UBC Studios is offering a drop-in media support session where professional media specialists are available to provide answers to your questions. If you are wondering: Where do I start? What resources are available on […]
New and Creative Ways to Embed Climate and Sustainability in your Class: Approaches from Five Faculties at UBC
New and Creative Ways to Embed Climate and Sustainability in your Class: Approaches from Five Faculties at UBC
This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. A growing number of UBC faculty from across disciplines are incorporating sustainability and climate change content into their courses and programs. Participants in this session will hear from faculty members from Applied Science, Arts, Education, Medicine, and Science who have […]
BCCSU’s Research & Dialogue Speaker Series: Social/Economic Disadvantage
BCCSU’s Research & Dialogue Speaker Series: Social/Economic Disadvantage
Dr. Lindsey Richardson will be presented recent findings around social and economic disadvantage and the impact on well-being among people who use drugs. Tara Taylor will be responding to Dr. Richardson's talk by placing findings within the context of her lived and living experience. Registration available here.
Work in Progress Seminar — Citizen Science — A method to engage the public in asking and answering novel research questions
Work in Progress Seminar — Citizen Science — A method to engage the public in asking and answering novel research questions
The Centre for Health Evaluation & Outcome Sciences (CHÉOS) is presenting a hybrid Work in Progress seminar with CHÉOS Research Associate Alison Hoens, CHÉOS Scientist Dr. Linda Li, and Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Codie Primeau who will be sharing how to engage the public in asking and answering novel research questions. This CHÉOS WiP session will […]
How do Instructors Design Experiential Education Activities in Large, First Year Courses in the Faculty of Arts?
How do Instructors Design Experiential Education Activities in Large, First Year Courses in the Faculty of Arts?
This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. This interactive panel brings together faculty members who have strong evidence-based beliefs in the teaching and learning outcomes that are possible through high quality experiential education (EE) in the classroom. Instructors from departments across the Faculty of Arts will share […]
iCON South Asian Chronic Disease Webinar Series: Answering your Questions About Diabetes
iCON South Asian Chronic Disease Webinar Series: Answering your Questions About Diabetes
iCON South Asian Chronic Disease Webinar Series: Answering your Questions About Diabetes will take place on Wednesday, May 31st, 2023. Join our panel of health professionals in a webinar where they answer Q&A sessions about diabetes from the audience who attended the iCON South Asian Health Forum, “Take Charge of Your Health: Living Well Together […]
From Theory to Practice: Streamlining Flexible Assessment with Canvas
From Theory to Practice: Streamlining Flexible Assessment with Canvas
This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. Are you tired of the traditional approach to grading, where instructors decide how much each assignment or exam is worth? Do you want to empower your students to take charge of their own learning by giving them control over how […]
MHLP Online Information Session
MHLP Online Information Session
Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Register today for an online information session on how the UBC Master of Health Leadership and Policy (MHLP) master’s degree can empower you to move ahead professionally and make a difference in your industry. This online presentation and question-and-answer session is for clinicians and practising health-care […]
MEL Online Information Session
MEL Online Information Session
Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Register today for an online information session on how the UBC Master of Health Leadership and Policy (MHLP) master’s degree can empower you to move ahead professionally and make a difference in your industry. This online presentation and question-and-answer session is for clinicians and practising health-care […]
Student Experience of Instruction: How to Interpret the Stats in Instructor Reports
Student Experience of Instruction: How to Interpret the Stats in Instructor Reports
This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. Student Experience of Instruction (SEI) quantitative data consists of responses on a Likert-type scale (most commonly a 5 or 7-point scale). For many years, the mean (average) and standard deviation were used to summarize and present quantitative data in instructor […]
Information Session: UBC Certificate in Biomedical Visualization and Communication
Information Session: UBC Certificate in Biomedical Visualization and Communication
Join our virtual information session to learn more about the UBC Certificate in Biomedical Visualization and Communication Program developed by the UBC Faculty of Medicine HIVE (Hackspace for Innovation and Visualization in Education) and the Centre for Digital Media.
Conscious Learning and Academic Integrity: Designing Reflective Paths Towards Student Learning
Conscious Learning and Academic Integrity: Designing Reflective Paths Towards Student Learning
This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. This 60-minute workshop will address some of the concerns raised by instructors about the effect of ChatGPT and similar AI platforms on academic integrity and deep learning. I propose that by designing a course with regular self-reflection about learning processes, […]
The (in)fidelity of human mitochondrial gene expression
The (in)fidelity of human mitochondrial gene expression
Special seminar by Dr. Brendan Battersby, Research Director at the Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki. Hosted by Dr. Hilla Weidberg. Delivered in person and Zoom. Date and Time: June 1, 2023 from 1-2 pm. Location: LSC3 Zoom Registration Link: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u50vce-tqjkqE9ZMdQxR_x9UigatUyINfJBy
WordPress & Wiki Clinic (Drop-In)
WordPress & Wiki Clinic (Drop-In)
The Drop-In Clinics are open for administrators of UBC weblogs or websites to get one-on-one support in WordPress and Wiki for Teaching and Learning or Administrative purposes. Participants should come prepared with a list of questions specific to their sites when attending this session. Specialists at the clinic will assist you in addressing and resolving […]
MEL Online Information Session
MEL Online Information Session
Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Register today for an online information session on how the UBC Master of Engineering Leadership (MEL) master’s degree can empower you to move ahead professionally and make a difference in your industry. This online presentation and question-and-answer session is for practising technical professionals who are considering […]
Employer Info Session: HCL Technologies Canada
Employer Info Session: HCL Technologies Canada
HCL Canada Inc. is seeking Front-end and Back-end Junior Software Developers to join our award winning and growing team at Vancouver, British Columbia. We will be hosting an in-person site visit of our Downtown Vancouver office for candidates who have applied for the openings and have successfully completed the technical assessment. You will have a […]
2023 UBC Department of Medicine & Experimental Medicine Research Expo
2023 UBC Department of Medicine & Experimental Medicine Research Expo
We are excited to announce that the 2023 DoM & ExMed Research EXPO will be held on June 2nd from 2 pm to 6 pm at the Paetzold Auditorium at Vancouver General Hospital. Please save the date and mark your calendar for the afternoon. The scientific program will be followed by a wine and cheese networking reception. Please refer […]
UBC Farm Saturday Farmers’ Market
UBC Farm Saturday Farmers’ Market
Join us on Saturday, June 3 for the beginning of the UBC Farm Farmers' Market season. Don't miss Vancouver's only multi-vendor farmers' market located on a working farm! In addition to certified organic and farm-fresh produce, fruits, herbs, and seeds from the UBC Farm, the Saturday multi-vendor Farmers' Market also features a variety of other […]
Language in Motion – French Yoga
Language in Motion – French Yoga
Take your French language experience to the next level by exploring the connection between heart, body and mind in this all-levels yoga series offered entirely in French for three Saturdays each term. Learn or practice your French vocabulary as it relates to movement, breath and spiritual wellbeing. This series is a perfect add-on to your Extended […]
Hearts of Freedom at UBC, Free Film Screening of Passage to Freedom Documentary by Sheila Petzold
Hearts of Freedom at UBC, Free Film Screening of Passage to Freedom Documentary by Sheila Petzold
June 4th free film screening of “Passage to Freedom” a documentary by Sheila Petzold . After the one-hour film, there will be a broader, intercultural discussion of “The Impact of Forced Migration Across Our Communities”, from Indigenous, Japanese Canadian, and Cambodian American perspectives. The film may be too intense for those under the age of 12, as […]