Preliminary Application Process When you submit an application, you are applying for the WAITLIST only and your spot in the workshop is NOT confirmed. If you meet the requirements and are selected as a participant you will receive an email to confirm your registration approximately 2-3 weeks prior to the workshop. If you are not selected as a participant, […]

Planning a media project can be overwhelming. Where to begin? This in-person workshop for UBC Instructors and Staff will provide guidance from media professionals on the many things to consider when planning a media project, whether your project is simple or complex. Minimize your suffering; plan effectively! It doesn’t have to hurt! Facilitators: Chris Spencer, […]

Planning a media project can be overwhelming. Where to begin? This in-person workshop for UBC Instructors and Staff will provide guidance from media professionals on the many things to consider when planning a media project, whether your project is simple or complex. Minimize your suffering; plan effectively! It doesn’t have to hurt! Facilitators: Chris Spencer, […]

For its first Speaker Series event of the year on the theme Migration, Racialization, and Inequality, the UBC Centre for Migration Studies is thrilled to welcome Andrew S. Rosenberg who will present his talk, “Shades of Perception: Non-White Refugee Arrivals and Migration Policy Restrictiveness in the Global North.” For in-person attendance, please RSVP by September […]

Please join us to hear from UBC Creative Writing faculty who are publishing new work this year. Come relax and listen to readings, mingle with students, faculty and staff, and have a drink and a snack. Billy-Ray Belcourt will read from his short story collection Coexistence. Frances Koncan will read from their play Women of […]

Practice answering tough questions, asking interviewers good questions, and get tips for how to prepare your stories in advance.

This event is part of National Postdoc Appreciation Week. Click here to view all events in celebration of NPAW 2024. Join the PDFO for our NPAW kickoff event, a keynote by Dr. Olumuyiwa Igbalajobi, former UBC postdoc and founder of Scholarships Café, an online platform with the mission to connect exceptional students and postdocs with […]

Scotiabank Company Recruitment Session Join us at our interactive Scotia on Campus event and learn how you can land your next internship, co-op, or new graduate position! This is your opportunity to gain insights into our unique recruitment process, discover our Business Lines, and introduce yourself to the Campus Recruitment Team. At Scotiabank, we provide […]

Welcome back to UBC! Lace up your shoes and get ready to hit the floor at our Homecoming dance party! The UBC Thunderbird Dance Club will turn your two left feet into feet moving right! In addition, the entire event will be livestreamed on Zoom so those at home can experience Homecoming. Reconnect with fellow alumni and dance […]

This event is part of National Postdoc Appreciation Week. Click here to view all events in celebration of NPAW 2024. UBC's Orientation for Postdoctoral Fellows will cover a range of important campus and academic information and advice geared to help you and your families obtain the most from your Postdoc experience at UBC. Orientation is open […]

What is a script? What is a storyboard? Do you need them? How do you build them? This in-person workshop for UBC Instructors and Staff will explore the fundamentals of DIY media scripting and storyboarding. We’ll look at examples of the wide range of approaches that can be taken, and give tips and tricks on […]

What is a script? What is a storyboard? Do you need them? How do you build them? This in-person workshop for UBC Instructors and Staff will explore the fundamentals of DIY media scripting and storyboarding. We’ll look at examples of the wide range of approaches that can be taken, and give tips and tricks on […]

Join us for a relaxing 30-minute yoga class, followed by a workshop on the benefits of sleep! Did you know that cultivating healthy sleep habits contributes to academic success? This workshop invites you to reflect on your feelings and habits related to sleep and to explore the relationship between sleep and work. Through guided activities […]

Want to get started with podcasting but not sure where to begin? Or do you want to improve the audio quality in your videos? Then this session is for you! During this in-person workshop for UBC Instructors and Staff, we’ll cover a number of topics including: audio recording and editing, getting your podcast heard, and […]

The UBC Farm Tuesday evening market features our farm-fresh vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers and seeds. Stop by and pick up some fresh ingredients for dinner! Cash, Interac, Visa and Mastercard are accepted.

We invite you to join us at our upcoming Information Session to learn more about full-time and internship opportunities in economics consulting and health care analytics and how you can contribute, learn, and grow at AG. Students of all class years are welcome to attend. Analysis Group, Inc. (AG) provides expertise in economics, health care […]

Working on your thesis? This session will review the UBC formatting and submission requirements and include: Planning ahead Thesis formatting requirements Electronic submission of theses Facilitators Nick Rizzo, Senior Thesis/Information Clerk, Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. Karol Pasciano, Thesis/Information Clerk, Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. General registration opens on Monday, September 9 at […]

Literature reviews accomplish several purposes for scholars writing up their research study, or research story, in order to summarize the scholarly conversation. In the introduction to a research article, research paper, or thesis chapter, for example, writers review research in order to provide readers with relevant background context to situate the current study. But how […]

Working on your thesis? This session will review the UBC formatting and submission requirements and include: Planning ahead Thesis formatting requirements Electronic submission of theses Facilitators Nick Rizzo, Senior Thesis/Information Clerk, Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. Karol Pasciano, Thesis/Information Clerk, Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. Registration Information General registration opens on Monday, September 9th […]

The UBC Farm Wednesday Campus Market features an assortment of fresh UBC Farm vegetables, fruit, herbs and flowers. This mid-week market in front of the UBC Bookstore offers students, staff and faculty members a convenient opportunity to purchase UBC Farm produce.

Celebrating the release of Sea Change Anthropogenic issues – climate change, resource overexploitation, and pollution – have left visible marks on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic oceans which border Canada. These changes will affect the ecosystems, economies, and people who live along these coasts and are a formidable challenge in building resilient and sustainable oceans and […]

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 […]

How do they get such great footage? Are you a UBC Instructor or Staff, and planning on filming your own video content? This in-person workshop will provide advice for DIY camera, lighting and audio. Media professionals will share tips, tricks, and best practices. Whether you’re filming outside, in an office, or in a professional studio, we can […]

How do they get such great footage? Are you a UBC Instructor or Staff, and planning on filming your own video content? This in-person workshop will provide advice for DIY camera, lighting and audio. Media professionals will share tips, tricks, and best practices. Whether you’re filming outside, in an office, or in a professional studio, we can […]

Craft a genuine application and learn which strategies you want to use when responding to common questions like “what do you hope to learn?” or “why this program?”. We will review resources for preparing a CV, statement of intent/personal statement, and requesting reference letters.

Join Grapes to Glass – a four-session Wine Education and Tasting Series presented by the UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems. Learn about the important elements of wine production, from grape-growing to enjoying the finished product, with a special focus on B.C. wines. Tour the UBC Wine Library – home to 4,000 unique bottles […]

Join us for this launch session as we unveil our new platform dedicated to fostering Indigenous knowledge, community-led initiatives, and transformative learning experiences. Explore the website’s interactive features, resources, and events focused on promoting cross-cultural understanding, collaboration, and reciprocity in education and development. Get ready to be inspired by this powerful online tool and connect […]

Join us for the kick off coffee hour on Thursday, April 18. The Anthropology Department is happy to host this ongoing opportunity for BIPOC students in Anthropology and other units to make connections and get to know one another. Light refreshments will be provided. The BIPOC coffee hour will be a recurring event, happening the […]

Speaker: Stephen Duckett, Honorary Professor, University of Melbourne A new Labor government in Australia, elected in 2022, brought with it a reforming health minister, Mark Butler. Butler started a reform process in primary care – which is ongoing – and also started to modernise aspects of mental health provision. The directions of change will be outlined […]

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. Location: ONLINE (A Zoom link will be sent to registrants 3 […]

Post-production can seem daunting, but it really doesn’t have to be. Let’s make you an editor! In this in-person workshop for UBC Instructors and Staff, we’ll give you an overview of the post-production process: from organizing your camera footage to exporting your final masterpiece with the optimal settings. We’ll walk you through the basics of […]

If you have never opened R, do not know what R packages are, do not know how to read files into R, this workshop is for you! At the end of this workshop you will: Know what R and RStudio are Know what the parts of R Studio are called Know how to organize R […]

Post-production can seem daunting, but it really doesn’t have to be. Let’s make you an editor! In this in-person workshop for UBC Instructors and Staff, we’ll give you an overview of the post-production process: from organizing your camera footage to exporting your final masterpiece with the optimal settings. We’ll walk you through the basics of […]

Online 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 […]

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

At a moment when ethnonationalist and heteropatriarchal narratives erase the intertwined histories of global Jewish and Muslim communities and portray us as inherently antagonistic, diasporic scholars and artists connect through resonant forms and questions to find pleasure in differences. On September 19, 2024 at 3:30 pm PT, please join the Department of English Language & Literatures […]

CS Distinguished Lectures are free and open to everyone.  No registration is required. Location:  Fred Kaiser Building (2332 Main Mall), Room 2020/2030 Speaker:  Dr. Kathi Fisler, Brown University Title:  Socially-Responsible Computing Education: Views from a Researcher Abstract: Efforts to teach ethics in university-level CS have been around since the 1970s. In the last few years, […]

September 19 marks the return of Harvest Feastival, an epic evening of incredible food, friends, arts and culture, right here at UBC Vancouver! Celebrate the start of the school year (and homecoming week!) by spending a cozy fall evening surrounded by 800 of your closest friends, family, and colleagues at this beloved campus celebration. Back […]

Date: Thursday, 19 September 2024 Time: 16:00-17:00 PDT Venue: Peña Room (301), 3/F Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia Founded by Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine in 2019, Voice of Verse is a poetry preservation project with the aim to build an online inventory of Hong Kong poets’ sounds. The team recorded […]

Join the CMS Circulation: Africa and its Diasporas Research Group and the UBC Latin American Landscape Cluster for “Re-Framing Disaster Narratives around Haiti” with Dr. Cécile Accilien. Dr. Accilien’s talk will delve into the complexity around simplistic disaster narratives surrounding Haiti by providing historical and cultural context. It will further consider how ensekirite in its various forms […]

Date: Thursday, September 19, 2024 Time: 17:30-18:45 PDT Venue: Peña Room (301), 3/F Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia Language: English Dr. Mary Shuk Han Wong, writer and associate professor at the Department of Chinese of Lingnan University, Hong Kong, will visit UBC in person and talk about the development of Hong […]

About Hatch: We are “entrepreneurs with a technical soul.” Our organization is passionately committed to the pursuit of a better world through positive change. Our experience spans over 150 countries around the world in the metals, energy, and infrastructure sectors. Our global network of 10,000 professionals work on the world’s toughest challenges. To learn more, […]

The Department of Asian Studies is excited to invite you to our annual Welcome Back Night on September 19! Whether you’re brand new to UBC or returning for another year, come celebrate Asian cultures and languages and learn more about the Asian Studies programs. You’ll get the chance to meet our faculty and staff, and mingle […]

How to make video more accessible? Captions, ASL, descriptive video…. it can be overwhelming. During this in-person presentation for UBC Instructors and Staff, we will reveal solutions from free and do-it-yourself to professional. You’ll find practical tips, guidance and best practices for reaching a variety of communities that experience barriers with video. Join us as […]

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Trites Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries PI, Marine Mammal Research Unit Archeologists examining ancient bones recovered from the middens of Indigenous tribes concluded that a local, non-migratory population of fur seals once bred along the outer coastline of Vancouver Island and Washington State. They further concluded that these fur seal […]

Each session will include a short didactic presentation and review of learner-submitted cases. Attend all six sessions or even just one to get feedback on challenging cases and gain the confidence to successfully manage common pediatric dermatological issues. Please note that this education is designed for rural health-care providers in British Columbia and funded by […]

This event is part of National Postdoc Appreciation Week. Click here to view all events in celebration of NPAW 2024. UBC, and especially the PDFO, would like to take this opportunity to thank our Postdocs for their hard work and for all the contributions they have made to the UBC community. We would like to celebrate the […]

Join IRSHDC gallery for a screening of Ever Deadly, courtesy of the NFB. About film: Ever Deadly weaves concert footage with stunning sequences filmed on location in Nunavut, seamlessly bridging landscapes, stories and songs with pain, anger and triumph—all through the expressions of Tanya Tagaq, one of the most innovative musical performers of our time. This […]

Preliminary Application Process When you submit an application, you are applying for the WAITLIST only and your spot in the workshop is NOT confirmed. If you meet the requirements and are selected as a participant you will receive an email to confirm your registration approximately 2-3 weeks prior to the workshop. If you are not selected as a participant, […]

Don’t miss the only multi-vendor farmers’ market in Vancouver located on a working farm! It’s our biggest weekly event on the Farm, bringing in dozens of vendors selling local fruits, vegetables, meats, baked goods, beverages, mushrooms, coffee and food trucks, alcohol, treats, crafts and prepared foods, as well as – of course! – the certified organic, […]

Join us for the screening of documentary film Liu Yichang: 1918 and meet award-winning filmmaker, scriptwriter, and scholar Dr. Ben Wong in person. Film with English subtitles; post-screening conversation to be conducted in English. Born in Shanghai, Liu Yichang 劉以鬯 (1918-2008) is one of the most influential writer and literary editor in Hong Kong’s cultural scene. […]