Category Archives: Events

A Conversation on Leadership & Creating a Sustainable Future

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Tyler

I’m currently sitting with Jenny and Kelvin at A Conversation on Leadership & Creating a Sustainable Future: Perspectives from Sweden & Canada in the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS). Although this conference req… Continue reading →

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Totem’s Best Dance Crew

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Samantha B

As the year progresses, I become increasingly aware that in Rez, there is never a dull moment.  At least, you can choose to have it that way. Over the last several weeks there have been many events, including House Weeks (where your house plans a whol… Continue reading →

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AAAS Annual Meeting 2012

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Tyler

This past weekend was the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). I was a session aide at all of the plenary lectures, which involved counting the people present at each of those sessions three times throughout… Continue reading →

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Update: TEDxTerry talks

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Tyler

Another update (finally) for the 2011 TEDxTerry talks videos. In addition to the two posted in December, here’s three more! Continue reading →

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Outweek 2012 Schedule

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Tyler

Here’s the schedule for Outweek 2012: Monday, February 6, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pmFlag Raising Ceremony @ SUB Flagpole 12:00 pm – 4:00 pmAwareness Fair @ SUB Concourse 6:00 pm – 7:00 pmX-Queeries @ SUB 204 Tuesday, February 7, 20… Continue reading →

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TerreWeb Seminar Series Schedule

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Tyler

TerreWeb‘s Seminar Series for this Spring have a theme of Perspectives on Challenges for Effective Communication of Science and Global Change. All their seminars take place in FSC 1003 from 1:00 PM until 2:30 PM, and they all take place on Thursd… Continue reading →

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Combining Two Cultures: Failure Quotes

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Tyler

Here’s a list of quotes I obtained from Linda Carson at the Combining Two Cultures (C2C) conference (for a comprehensive overview of the conference, check out my other blog post here): If I’m not free to fail, I will never start another boo… Continue reading →

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Combining Two Cultures 2012

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Tyler

I apologize, as this post will likely be particularly lengthy. It will be a fairly comprehensive review of the Combining Two Cultures (C2C) conference which took place at Waterloo last weekend (from January 21-22, 2012). I led a working group there tit… Continue reading →

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Students of UBC: I’m probably just as busy as you, and I’m voting in the AMS Elections. Also, shit-giving.

Posted on January 25, 2012 by miriam

I managed to inform myself enough to vote, even though I was half-writing my paper while watching a candidate’s debate, was listening to an educational podcast while reading candidates’ bios, and was doing Biology readings in MASS when I was … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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The UBC Student Leadership Conference

Posted on January 17, 2012 by miracle

Event: The 10th Anniversary of the annual UBC Student Leadership Conference (SLC) Introduction: I woke up at 5:00 AM drowsy and quivering in anticipation. January 14, the day I had been waiting for over a month, was finally here and the SLC was set to start in three hours and thirty minutes.  I groomed myself [...] Continue reading →

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