Events at: Stikine Room (Room 260), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

Consequential Transitions: Literacy, Inquiry and Student Success K-12 to Post-Secondary

Join UBC students and faculty to discuss what secondary students need to know to be successful in the post-secondary environment. By making connections between inquiry-based learning in the K-12 context and information literacy in the post-secondary environment, attendees will explore opportunities for educators to support student transition between K-12 and higher education. Registration required.

Consequential Transitions: Literacy, Inquiry and Student Success K-12 to Post-Secondary

Join UBC students and faculty to discuss what secondary students need to know to be successful in the post-secondary environment. By making connections between inquiry-based learning in the K-12 context and information literacy in the post-secondary environment, attendees will explore opportunities for educators to support student transition between K-12 and higher education. Registration required.

UnWind

Assignments, exams, papers, readings… the last part of term is packed with work and stress. Come for board games, yoga and more! Relax, unwind, and de-stress during one of the busiest times of term right near your favourite study spot on campus.

Air travel in a 1.5 degree university

The Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has declared that we must halve global greenhouse gas emissions in the next 11 years to stay within 1.5 degrees of warming. In this talk, Seth Wynes expains why universities should be motivated to take action and explore some of the changes that could make an immediate impact. Registration required.

Writing With Integrity

Communicating your research and ideas effectively and ethically requires being accurate, objective, honest, and clear. This means understanding the writing conventions of your academic discipline and being attuned to and adept at all practices that ensure those objectives are met. Registration required.