SDG Week Canada is a national collaboration from March 6-10 featuring workshops, panels, and other interactive programming to increase awareness of and engagement with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on university and college campuses.

Whether you’re a student, staff, or faculty member at UBC, check out one of our engaging and interactive events, to find out how to integrate the SDGs into your studies, work, and teaching.

https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/sdg-week-canada-at-ubc-1781349?just_published=true

Featuring

Tue Mar 7 – Teaching the SDGs

Innovations in teaching about the Sustainable Development Goals with educators at UBC.

Thu Mar 9 – Think Local with the SDGs

Explore the importance of local level action and Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs) in achieving global goals.

Fri Mar 10 – Emotions and Saving the Planet

An existential toolkit for the climate movement with author Sarah Jaquette Ray.

Natalie Hawryshkewich (She, Her, Hers)

Communication and Engagement Specialist
Sustainability Hub
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability 2260 West Mall, 2nd Floor | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z4
natalie.haw@ubc.ca
https://sustain.ubc.ca/hub | http://climateemergency.ubc.ca/

The UBC Vancouver campus is situated within the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).

 

Learn more about our vision for a just and sustainable world, and our 5-year plan to bring it to life. sustain.ubc.ca/hub

 

Hope you are enjoying a quiet reading break.

We hope you can help advertise this event to your students, staff and faculty in your departments.

See Poster and register here.

 

Thank you!
Lee

Lee Yupitun (She, Her, Hers)

Admissions & Administrative Coordinator | Professional Master’s Programs (MGEM, MUFL, MF)
Faculty of Forestry | Graduate Programs
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
2644 – 2424 Main Mall | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z4 Canada
(T) 604-822-1174 or email Lee.yupitun@ubc.ca

Next week’s IRES Seminar is in the Beaty Museum Theatre.  Note: No food or drinks allowed in the Theatre.

March 2, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with Sara Barron

Future Urban Forests

Time: 12:30pm to 1:20pm

Location: Beaty Museum Theatre (2212 Main Mall)

Click here to register in advance to receive a Zoom link.

Zoom Rule: If we encounter technical difficulties during the first 5 to 10 mins of the seminar, Zoom will be terminated.

Talk summary:

North American urban landscapes are facing critical pressures such as climate change, human health concerns, and loss of biodiversity and habitat. Urban forests are a critical component of these landscapes and can help meet these pressures in several ways. The emerging discipline of urban forestry can inform policy and practice to design and plan for future forests in human landscapes. The field currently lacks tested approaches to holistically integrate the complex multiple factors involved with future planning. This study explores a new framework for a scenario-based approach incorporating a design process to examine potential solutions to these complex problems. A Canadian case study was used to develop and evaluate this framework approach combining multiple methods.

Dr. Sara Barron, Program Director for Bachelor of Urban Forestry and Master in Urban Forestry Leadership

Bio:

Sara Barron is the Program Director for the Urban Forestry programs (Bachelor of Urban Forestry and Master in Urban Forestry Leadership) at the University of British Columbia. Prior to this role, she was a lecturer at the University of Melbourne. Sara’s research interests bridge landscape architecture and urban forestry. Her dissertation explored the design and assessment of future urban forest scenarios in compact communities. She has expertise in large-scale sustainable community planning and climate change research projects and holds a Master of Landscape Architecture degree.

 

 

See you next week in the Beaty Museum Theatre!

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Bonnie Leung

RES Program Support (she/her/hers)

Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES)

University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL Building)

Room 429 – 2202 Main Mall | Vancouver, BC | V6T 1Z4 | Canada

 

Email: bonnie.leung@ubc.ca

Tel: 604-822-9249

 

The Weill Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology is pleased to announce our first Weill Institute Emerging Scholars Symposium at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.

The Symposium will be a one-day event in October where exceptional senior Ph.D. students from institutions external to Cornell are invited to share their research with the Weill Institute community, celebrate their academic achievements, interact with students and faculty, and explore post-doctoral collaboration and research opportunities.

Awardees will additionally be invited to attend the 7^th Biennial Weill Institute Symposium and meet with the speakers.

Information about the event and application process can be found here.

Click here to apply!

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Quick: tell us about your biodiversity related graduate thesis in three minutes!

That is the point of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) academic competition that assists current graduate students by fostering effective presentation and communication skills. Participants have just three minutes to explain the breadth and significance of their research project to a non-specialist audience.

 

3MT was developed by The University of Queensland in 2008. UBC was one of the first universities in North America to host a competition, when it held its inaugural 3MT @UBC in 2011, and now these competitions are held at many countries around the world.

 

2023 Competition

This year, UBC is holding its preliminary Heats between February 22 and March 9. A special Biodiversity focused heat has been scheduled, for graduate students in the biodiversity/sustainability/conservation fields (IOF, IRES, SPGGA, Biology, Botany, Land and Food Systems, Geography, etc.). It will be held on:

 

UBC BIODIVERSITY HEAT

Wednesday March 1, 2023 5:00-7:00 pm

AERL Theatre (2202 Main Mall), UBC

 

Sign up to participate here! https://oceans.ubc.ca/3mt-participant-sign-up-2023-biodiversity-heat/

And be sure to invite your academic colleagues, friends and family to watch you present!

 

Please circulate to your UBC graduate student network!

 

 

Regards,

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IOF Communications

IOFCommunications@oceans.ubc.ca

Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries

Faculty of Science, The University of British Columbia

Located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) People

@UBCOceans   |   facebook.com/UBCOceans   |    oceans.ubc.ca

 

 

 

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