Receive an overview of global change processes and rates of change. Explore opportunities for intervention and more thoughtful engagement. Hadi Dowlatabadi is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Applied Mathematics...

Since the time of the French Revolution, physicists and geologists have challenged each other to understand the inner workings of the climate system. The unexpected discovery of the Pleistocene...

Learn about key trends in inequality in Canada and abroad and possible explanations for these dramatic developments. Discuss policy options for reducing or slowing the growth of inequality. Thomas Lemieux is...

Event topic: Climate Inequality. Elizabeth May is the Leader of the Green Party of Canada and its first elected Member of Parliament, representing Saanich-Gulf Islands in southern Vancouver Island. Elizabeth...

This year’s Annual Remembrance Day ceremony at UBC will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 11th in the War Memorial Gym. The event is open to all and is an...

The University of British Columbia (UBC) and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APFC) invite you to an event at UBC on Canada-China relations on Thursday, November 12th. 2015 marks the...

Trends in health care that promote participation of the public and individual patients in their care require changes in the way we educate health professionals to improve competency in...

Please note that this event has been cancelled.    Blogger, journalist, and author Andrew Sullivan is a popular source of provocative, astute political and social commentary. The Washington Post called him “a...

UBC has consistently ranked in the top 40 of the world’s research universities, an achievement which undoubtedly makes us proud.  But we could, and should, aim higher: within the...

Keynote speaker: Dr. Kathryn McPherson, Associate Professor in Gender, Feminist and Women’s History at York University and author of the seminal text Bedside Matters: The Transformation of Canadian Nursing,...