PhD student Seth Wynes’ UBC emissions study featured on CBC
He has found that carbon emissions from the flights of UBC employees equate to between half and two-thirds of UBC’s annual campus emissions.
Professor Geraldine Pratt named Head of Department
Commencing July 1st 2019, Prof. Pratt will take up leadership of the department. She succeeds Prof. Marwan Hassan, who has led the department since 2012.
Tara Cookson awarded AAG 2018 Global Book Award
In her book Unjust Conditions: Women’s Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs, Tara Cookson, presents a powerful counter-argument to the fashionable yet problematic practice of “data-driven development”.
Geography VR: a Stanley Park Virtual Field trip
The Technology of Virtual Reality The Geography VR project is utilizing cutting-edge innovative technologies. Virtual reality is an expanding platform that has grown ever since it’s first introduction, and is the key innovation that we will be utilized within this project. Photogrammetry and other technologies were also used, combining the best and newest innovations to […]
Emerging Media Lab: Grand Opening on March 26th
EML is an experimental space where faculty, students, and staff from all disciplines collaborate with industry and community. Its mission is to evolve learning by creating tools and techniques using emerging media including Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality.
Geraldine Pratt awarded UBC’s 2018 Jacob Biely Research Prize
The Jacob Biely Faculty Research Prize, established in 1969, is regarded as UBC’s premier award for research across all disciplines.
Minelle Mahtani recipient of AAG Awards
Mahtani’s work on mixed race identities; the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, and gender; and the production of identity and knowledge have laid the foundations for other geographers’ work and teaching.
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.