September PhD Oral Examinations
At the Graduate Student Centre (6371 Crescent Road) unless noted otherwise. Kean Fan Lim “State Rescaling, Experimental Reforms and Institutional Continuity: The Shifting Spatial Logics of Socio-Economic Regulation in Post-1949 China” Friday, September 5, 2014 4:00 PM – Room 203 Howard Macdonald Stewart “Five Easy Pieces on the Strait of Georgia – Reflections on the […]
New Student Services Coordinator
We are very excited to welcome Stefanie Ickert, the new Student Services Coordinator, to our department! Stefanie graduated with an MA in History from UBC in 2013. She will be joining the main office and assisting with the administration of the graduate program as well as facets of the undergraduate program.
Trevor Barnes, Fellow of British Academy
Congratulations to Professor Trevor Barnes for having been elected a Fellow of the British Academy! This acknowledges an innovative, influential, and extremely productive career and also the major role he’s played in the British academic assessment system.
Caroline Grego wins CSN-RÉC Prize
Congratulations to MA student Caroline Grego for winning the MA-level Major Research Paper Prize from CSN-RÉC (Réseau d’études canadiennes)! The winning paper is titled, “Imagining a Community-Oriented ‘National Park Nature: Conflict, Management, and Conservation in the Proposed South Okanagan-Lower Similkameen National Park Reserve.” According to the congratulatory message from the CSN-RÉC, “The adjudicating committee members agreed that Grego’s thesis represents […]
Lawrence Bird at WEST 2014
Congratulations to MSc student Lawrence Bird for having been awarded the poster prize for his poster on ‘Thermal regime of a large proglacial lake fed by a calving glacier’ at WEST (Water and Environment Student Talks) 2014! The winning poster documented the thermal regime of a large proglacial lake formed by the retreat of Bridge […]
Tom Koch at the KMA
In June, UBC Geography adjunct professor Tom Koch delivered a plenary lecture at the 32nd Annual Korean Medical Association meetings in Seoul, Korea. The subject–“Age, Aging, and Allocation: The failure of success”–built upon his work on aging and the elderly to consider citizen longevity in the postmodern era. In the 1990’s he published the first […]
Pet Plant Project: A Healthy Workplace Initiative
The Department of Geography was awarded one of the 11 Healthy Workplace Initiative Program Fund grants from UBC HR. In an effort to promote faculty and staff wellness, Suzanne Lawrence, Student Services Manager, composed a proposal for the purchase of edible desktop plants in the offices in the Geography Building. Studies after studies showed the beneficial […]
Dr. Brett Eaton Joins USI!
Dr. Brett Eaton will be joining the UBC Sustainability Initiative (USI) as a fellow for the 2014W academic year. In addition, he will lead an initiative to create a sustainability pathway associated with Geography that is also funded by the USI. Loch Brown and Siobhan McPhee are also members of the team, and together will form […]
Best wishes to Michael More, former Undergraduate Advisor!
Undergraduate Advisor, Michael More, had his last day as part of the Geography Staff on June 13. He has accepted a new position as Graduate Career Advisor for the Centre for Student Involvement & Careers in Brock Hall. As much as we are saddened to see him leave Geography, we are also incredibly excited for […]
New Zealand & The Cook Islands: “Landscapes and People” with Jialin and Andrea
[Photos submitted by Andrea Eisma, Jialin Yang] Welcome back to Vancouver! How did the climate and weather in New Zealand and the Cook Islands compare to Vancouver? Jialin: Everyone told me that New Zealand and Vancouver had very similar weather but that is not true! The presence of the Southern Alps makes for very different […]