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In response to Rick Mercer’s recent rant, UBC students are once again showing their rocking engagement! Check out the UBC Vote Mob and plan to ROCK THE VOTE! I know I will!

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This is a beautiful and interesting display of population level-data on health and wealth over the past 200 years around the world. Check it out!

Visualizing Mortality History

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The paper Kathleen Vohs and I have coming out in PSPR soon has been picked up by a Psychology Today blogger. Check it out!

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-science-success/201009/the-dark-side-self-control

Update: Our forthcoming JCR is also getting some press:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100920173002.htm

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Check it out!

http://www.ubc.ca/ 

That’s me up first! Here’s the story. Thanks to my student Jeremy Butt for providing his perspective on the course, Basil Waugh, the story writer, and Martin Dee, the photographer.

If you’re interested in finding out more about the course, last year’s syllabus can be found here. Based on feedback from last year’s students I have some changes in the works, but you can get the idea from there. If you’re interested in registering in the course, note that only my section (section 2, offered in January 2011) has this content because it’s a “special topics” course. The course is currently full, but there is always some shuffling at the start of term. Hope to see you in class!

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I am now officially a UBC Peer Reviewer of Teaching. In this role I will be reviewing people’s teaching to give formative feedback. Learn more about the process from the link above. Each reviewer only completes about 2-3 reviews per year. In September, Sunaina and I are planning to review each others’ teaching using this model. I’m very excited about it!

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