UBC launches alumni book club
Members will read a new book every 2 months, and connect in a private online forum to discuss.
Medical geography and why we need it
As our climate changes, we need more researchers who can understand the close relationship between the environment and disease.
Graduate student’s film to screen at VIFF 2019
Happytime Social Club, produced by graduate student Jessica Hallenbeck, will screen in the festival’s B.C. Spotlight category.
Colloquium: Problematising Icy Geopolitics?
Join us on Monday 9th September for our first colloquium of the year, given by Professor Klaus Dodds from Royal Holloway, University of London.
New initiative to track greenhouse gas levels
Assistant professor Sara Knox is leading on a global project to better understand methane emissions.
Mordor, Gandalf… is it left or right?
Geography students get to the bottom of whether Frodo’s journey across Middle-Earth with the One Ring took the most efficient route.
SOS: What you can do to reduce climate change
A new book from PhD candidate Seth Wynes offers a short introduction to what we as individuals can do about climate change.
Tara Cookson receives Alumni Achievement Award
The Young Alumni Award recognises ‘significant and inspiring leadership’; Dr. Cookson’s research on gender equity has led to work with UN Women and the founding of feminist consultancy Ladysmith.
How should we deal with climate change anxiety?
It is a really, really challenging idea to work with,” says Prof. Michele Koppes.
New study: Canadian high school education on climate change is lacking
PhD candidate Seth Wynes and co-author Kimberly Nicholas analyzed textbooks and curricula from Canada’s 13 provinces and territories and interviewed curriculum designers.