Colloquium with Jim Glassman
Please join us on February 26 12:30 – 1:45 pm in GEOG room 229 for a colloquium with Jim Glassman. Jim is Professor of Geography at The University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the geopolitical economy of development in East and Southeast Asia. For more info. please click here.
Remembering Dr. John Stager
Geographer, administrator, colleague and friend – he will be greatly missed.
QS World Rankings: UBC Geography #1 in Canada, #4 Worldwide
According to QS World Rankings, the Department of Geography at UBC is the best Geography program in Canada and the fourth best in the world.
UBC Geography partners with Motive.io to deliver audiotour of downtown Vancouver
Professor Siobhan McPhee has partnered with Motive.io, a mobile toolkit, to deliver an interactive GPS geography lesson about downtown Vancouver.
“Reflections on a Department and an Academic Life”
Professor Emeritus Cole Harris delivers a colloquium on the topic of his own life, including his time in the Department of Geography at UBC.
UBC Geography’s Statement on the 2nd Executive Order on Immigration
The faculty and graduate students of the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia join other academic and non-academic communities in condemning the Executive Order on Immigration signed by US President Donald Trump on March 6th, 2017.
UBC Geography in new partnership with University of Central Asia (UCA)
UBC, through its departments Geography and Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS), entered into an educational partnership to help the University of Central Asia with the curriculum design of an undergraduate Earth and Environmental Sciences Programme.
UBC Geography’s Statement of Solidarity with the Muslim Community
In light of the January 29th massacre at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec, as well as the Trump Administration’s executive order banning people from many Muslim-majority nations from travelling to the US, the Department of Geography reaffirms our commitment to fostering an inclusive and safe environment that provides students, faculty, and staff with the […]
New Book from Jessica Dempsey: Enterprising Nature
Prof. Dempsey’s first book tracks the rise of a powerful idea in global biodiversity conservation.
Alumnus John Thistle’s Scholarly Publishing Recognized
His first book, Resettling the Range: Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in Early British Columbia, has received multiple awards.