Student receives Yale fellowship for research on the future of work
María Cervantes has been awarded a prestigious Yale-Fox Fellowship for her research on how immigration policy impacts migrant experiences, and the future of work.
Geography students are putting remote communities on the map
Undergraduates Jack Cheng and Alvin To founded a UBC chapter of Youthmappers – part of a global organization dedicated to mapping the communities overlooked by Google and Apple.
Student research finds publicly subsidised oil and gas wells in endangered caribou habitat
Co-authored by three masters students at UBC Geography, the project reveals that public funding could actually be contributing to caribou decline in B.C.
Mariam Abdelaziz wins AAG award for undergraduate paper
The AAG’s Urban Geography Specialty Group gave Mariam the Glenda Laws Undergraduate Paper Award for her paper on Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
Angela Liu awarded environmental sciences scholarship
Currently in the final year of her BA in Environment and Sustainability, with a minor in Environmental Science, Angela’s work at UBC has focused on sustainable futures.
COVID-19: Update on student travel restrictions
On October 20th, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced amended travel restrictions for international students wishing to come to Canada.
Madeline Whetung awarded Indigenous History Best Article Prize
The 2020 award recognizes doctoral candidate Whetung’s work “(En)Gendering Shoreline Law: Nishnaabeg Relational Politics Along the Trent Severn Waterway”
Mapping COVID-19: GIS resources around the world
As health care professionals and researchers continue to fight against COVID-19, much of the information about helpful research initiatives gets lost under the piles of negative news.
Sara Cannon recognized for exceptional teaching
The Geography PhD candidate received some of the highest student evaluations in the Faculty of Science.
WDCAG Conference 2018
Congratulations to another successful year of presentations by our undergraduate students at the Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers (WDCAG) conference held on February 9th and 10th, 2018. This year is the 60th annual meeting for the WDCAG and it was held at the University of Alberta.