Category Archives: Events

Outweek 2012 Schedule

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

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

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

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.

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

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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Cool free lectures coming up

As usual, there are a number of free lectures coming up that I am attending or am considering attending  Let me know if you’re interested in any of the following so we can meet up: “Men, Women, Sex and Violence” … Continue reading Continue reading

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A Cure for Cancer

I’m posting this after a recent discussion with Khanh, Pritisha, Carson, Kurt, Jenny, Quinlan, Lu, Kim, and Ben (we had a day long discussion of ideas yesterday, and it was amazing). I found this floating around Facebook, and it sounded interesti… Continue reading

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Combining 2 Cultures

Some of you may recall that last year I went to McMaster to attend the Combining 2 Cultures conference. This conference has an interdisciplinary focus, especially on integrating the sciences with the arts; it was also the conference that gave birth to … Continue reading

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Update: Cute Cats and the Arab Spring

Like my post earlier today, this is another post to update another one of my previous posts which covered the talks by David Suzuki, Bill McKibben, and Ethan Zuckerman. I noticed that the talks have now been posted online, so I figured I should share t… Continue reading

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