Joey Lee Awarded Mozilla Fellowship for Science
Congratulations to MSc Student Joey Lee who has won a Mozilla Fellowship for Science! He is one of only four fellows this year, chosen from a competitive group of 130 people. In his words: “As a Mozilla Science Fellow I will be working within the UBC community to help promote open science, open research, and in […]
Recap: Dan Hiebert “A Primer on the Syrian Refugee Crisis”
On October 1st, Professor Dan Hiebert gave an introductory lecture on the Syrian Refugee Crisis and international responses so far. Over 80 members of the UBC community, as well as members of local NGOs and the City of Vancouver, were in attendance. Gathering data from various migration conferences, meetings with government officials from Canada, EU […]
Jake Wall: Save the Elephants with Google Streetview
Recent graduate, Jake Wall (PhD ’15), through his collaboration with Save the Elephants and Google Streetview, have enabled us to “walk with elephants”. “Walk with elephants in Africa via Google Street View” CBS News, September 16, 2015 “GOOGLE’S SECRET WEAPON TO SAVE AFRICA’S ELEPHANTS” Elle Magazine, September 15, 2015 [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoTAVsSeMnY[/youtube]
Derek Gregory Receives Honorary Fellowship
Professor Derek Gregory received an Honorary Fellowship from King’s College London on 20 July at the Barbican. The Honorary Fellowship “recognises the exceptional distinction achieved on the part of the holder through their public and professional life”.”
Derek Gregory to give Tanner Lecture at Cambridge
Professor Derek Gregory has been invited to give the Tanner Lectures at Cambridge on 13-14 January 2016. The title of his lecture is “Reach from the sky: aerial violence and the everywhere war”. The Lectures are given in parallel at nine universities in the UK and the USA: Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, Berkeley, […]
Elvin Wyly Promoted to Professor
Congratulations Elvin Wyly who has been promoted to full Professor, effective July 1, 2015! Professor Wyly’s research focuses on the relations between market processes and state policy in producing and reinforcing urban social inequalities. His recent and ongoing projects focus on class, racial, and gender discrimination in mortgage lending and foreclosures in the U.S. urban system; housing […]
Matthew Evenden Promoted to Professor
Congratulations Matthew Evenden who has been promoted to full Professor, effective July 1, 2015! Professor Evenden’s research focuses on environmental history and water history, particularily on the history and politics of large rivers, particularly in Canada. His latest book, Allied Powers: Mobilizing Hydro-Electricity during Canada’s Second World War, was published earlier this year. He is […]
Dan Cohen: The Mechanisms Behind Detroit Metro School Markets
Watch the short film below by Detroit filmmaker/activist, Kate Levy, with Geography PhD Candidate Dan Cohen discussing the Detroit metro school markets. [vimeo]https://vimeo.com/133764789[/vimeo]
Jamie Peck Amongst the Dinosaurs (at the 4th GCEG)!
Jamie Peck gave the plenary address at the 4th Global Conference on Economic Geography in Oxford in August, in the spectacular—if acoustically challenging—setting of the Museum of Natural History. (For reasons that were never properly explained, but which were the subject of some speculation, the organizers chose to place him in the path of the […]
Meet the 2015-16 GSA Executives
President, Evelyn W. Chan Hello! My name is Evelyn and I am a 4th years Geography – Environment and Sustainability student. Just like many of the other GSA Execs, I was also born and raised in Vancouver! Even though I have a strong interest in urban geography and GIS, I am also really passionate about […]