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Your Next Step: Discovering What Employers Really Want
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by alumni UBC. Your resume lists the best schools (naturally) and your experience and skills meet the requirements of the job postings you come across. Yet despite looking good on paper, your applications don’t seem to be translating into calls and interviews. So what […]
Citizen Science: Information, Technology and People
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Citizens have been informally contributing to science for hundreds of years. One of the best known modern examples is of sightings by bird watchers. The Christmas Bird Count, an annual national count in the […]
Global Experience Fair
Wednesday, October 8, 2014, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (2nd Floor) from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm
5th Annual UBC Library/United Way Spelling Bee
Thursday, October 7, 2014 in the Golden Jubilee Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (4th Floor) from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm.
George Marshall – Wired to Ignore Climate Change
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by UBC Reads Sustainability. As part of his new book tour: Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change, George Marshall spoke at UBC Reads Sustainability, which brings well-known sustainability authors to UBC’s Vancouver campus to engage in a campus-wide discussion. […]
Alice Goffman – On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Department of Sociology at UBC. On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City The War on Crime didn’t just send millions of Black young men to prison and return them home with felony convictions. It created a little known surveillance state […]
Chia-ying Yeh – Celebrating Life And Work
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and jointly organized by the Asian Library, Department of Asian Studies, the Centre for Chinese Research and the Institute of Asian Research, Chinese Canadian Writers’ Association. Dr. Yeh Chia-Ying Professor Emerita of Asian Studies was celebrated on her 90th birthday on July 26, 2014 at the […]
Wesbrook Series – Women in Business
This sold out event featured Business in Vancouver’s Influential Women in Business award-winners Barbara Brink, BA’63; Barbara Dunfield, BEd’80; and Barbara Kaminsky, BA’70, MSW’73, MSc’82, in a panel discussion with CBC’s Renee Filippone and host Shelina Esmail, BA’93