Congratulations to Dr. Graeme Wynn for receiving the Distinguished Scholar Award at the recent ASEH 2024! 🥳 Dr. Wynn is a long time faculty member and greatly respected geographer in our community, this award is much deserved. 👏

🎉Today is #UBCGivingDay - an annual 24-hour fundraising event supporting initiatives that advance our health, society and the planet.

Learn more about our Geography initiatives you can support with your donations: geog.ubc.ca/about/donate/

More info: givingday.ubc.ca

Are you on campus tomorrow? Don't miss our in-person #UBCGivingDay celebration from 11-1. We’ll have games, giveaways and more! Find us in front of the UBC Bookstore (Vancouver campus) or the University Centre (Okanagan campus). bit.ly/4auNwIk

Join the CCJ and Climate and Community Project to discuss the connection between the climate crisis and the ongoing genocide in Palestine with speakers Batul Hassan, (Depreciated) Patrick Bigger, and Mohammed Rafi Arefin.

📆 Thursday 4 APR 2024 @ 4:30 PM PT
📍 Zoom

RSVP + Details: tinyurl.com/CCJ-Palestine-…

Exciting to see our faculty member Naomi Klein shortlisted for the inaugural Women’s prize for nonfiction for her book Doppelganger!👏📚

UBC Faculty of Arts Centre for Climate Justice Avi Lewis UBC Media Relations The Guardian

theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

Join us and Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives for our fourth webinar, 'Empowering Narratives: Videotaped Interviews vs Graphic Novels' in our 2024 Art and Testimony series. Uğur Ümit Üngör and Peter W. Klein consider videotaped interviews vs graphic novels. RSVP here: publichumanities.ubc.ca/events/event/e…

Today we bid a bittersweet farewell to long-time Administrator Sandy Lapsky after an exceptional 42 years at University of British Columbia. 💖'The heart of the department”, we thank her for her innumerable contributions. 🙏

Congratulations on your retirement Sandy!🥳

Her story: bit.ly/SandyLapsky

March 31 is International Transgender Day of Visibility, an intentional opportunity to celebrate and recognize the valuable contributions of trans community members – and reflect on how we can all contribute to trans inclusion.

Find events and resources: bit.ly/3IWSQZh

Join us next week for our final Geography Colloquium speaker series seminar with Dr. Christian Berndt from University of Zurich!

April 2nd, 12:30pm Pacific
Geog room 229 & Zoom
Event info: geog.ubc.ca/events/event/c…

Apply now for the Certificate in Climate Studies and Action! 🌍

This interdisciplinary 18 credit undergraduate certificate is designed for students across any UBC faculty. Credits can be applied to your primary degree program.

Learn more and apply: bit.ly/climate-certif…

Exciting news! We're launching the open call for our 2024 Climate Justice Study Collective cohort. Join us for discussions of policy and systems change for a more just and equitable future. Apply by April 5th! ✊🏽✨ #CentreforClimateJustice #ClimateJusticeStudyCollective #CJSC2024

Join our friends at SFU School of Public Policy on April 11th for Dr.Ali Bhagat's book launch of Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism.

A panel discussion with Dr. Geraldine Pratt and others to follow: shorturl.at/FKPU9

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What can we do to help make our food systems more sustainable? UBC researchers share small steps that can make a big collective impact: bit.ly/3TvNWIT

#Sustainability #FoodSystems

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UBC Sustainability
UBC Campus and Community Planning
UBC Forestry

Come get your hands dirty this summer during GEOS 309 Field Camp, hosted at the state-of-the-art Teck Geological Field Station in the Okanagan Valley! 🌄

🗓️May 25th-June 4th, 2024

Join us for this immersive 11 day, 3 credit course.

Info & registration: bit.ly/Geos_309

Meet Sandy Lapsky, the beloved Administrator at the Department of UBC Geography! Her peers adore her for her kindness, passion, and generosity. With a smile as bright as the sun, Sandy is a true gem of the department: l8r.it/W0MM

As Ramadan begins, we wish Ramadan Mubarak to all who observe this spiritual time of fasting, worship and reflection.

Throughout Ramadan, student clubs will be hosting a number of activities for Muslim students at UBC Vancouver.

Learn more: events.ubc.ca/ramadan

Happy #MappingMonday ! #DYK sea otters are a keystone species that eat urchins and allow kelp forests to thrive? Their conservation story in B.C. is a complex one, interwoven with the cultural traditions of the Haida Nation. Read all about it in Canadian Geographic: bit.ly/3P8gqWq

Presenting our biggest event of this year - UNTOUCHABLE: A stand-up special by Manjeet Sarkar! Manjeet Sarkar

March 14th, 6PM at York Theatre, Vancouver The Cultch

Get your tickets for the show today!
bit.ly/untouchable-van
(Free for university students with ID)

Learn to identify UDL principles and explore the benefits of integrating AI to enhance inclusion and accessibility. Walk away with the skills to incorporate AI-based tools into your lesson plans.
March 21 | 10–11:30 am | Online
Register bit.ly/47I3Tzm

Our next Geography Colloquium speaker series talk is with Dr. Jessica Hernandez (Dr. Jessica Hernandez)! Join us March 12th for her talk Indigenous Science: From Local to Global Context.

March 12th
12:30pm Pacific
Geog room 229 & Zoom
Event info & zoom link:
geog.ubc.ca/events/event/c…