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$5 student Rush tickets on sale for Sport, Peace and Development beginning at 9:30am TODAY

Friday, February 12, 2010

Begin­ning today at 9:30am, UBC stu­dents with a valid stu­dent ID can pur­chase Rush tick­ets for Sport, Peace and Devel­op­ment fea­tur­ing devel­op­ment and com­munity build­ing advoc­ates Stephen Lewis and Johann Koss.
Stu­dent rush tick­ets are $5 and will be avail­able at the Chan Centre box office begin­ning at 9:30am. Reg­u­lar tick­ets are $23 and will also […]

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What role does Sport play in your life?

Thursday, February 4, 2010

The Olympics are com­ing to Van­couver… and whether you’re excited about the Games or not, there are going to be lots and lots of great events that you can attend. For example, the Sport and Soci­ety speaker series at the Chan on cam­pus looks really inter­est­ing. The first speaker is Dick Pound, an […]

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TRUST IN THE NEW SCIENCES: Remaking the Human

Friday, January 22, 2010

The Cana­dian Centre for Eth­ics in Pub­lic Affairs and the Situ­at­ing Sci­ence Cluster for the Human­ist and Social Stud­ies of Sci­ence (Jeez, that’s a mouth­ful – CCEPA.CA & SITUSCI.CA) present a national five-part series of present­a­tions explor­ing the eth­ical ques­tions that emerge as we exam­ine our TRUST IN THE NEW SCIENCES.

This event looks pretty interesting […]

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UBC Students in Copenhagen

Monday, December 14, 2009

Did you know that our very own Liz Fer­ris is blog­ging from Copen­ha­gen?  Six UBC stu­dents are in Copen­ha­gen at the United Nations Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence.  In light of this “damn clever” stunt pulled in Copen­ha­gen today, it might be inter­est­ing to get per­spect­ive from Liz.
Liz is post­ing her daily updates here:
www.climateaction.ubc.ca 

Busy after­noon at […]

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Interdisciplinary Soup for Lunch

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Terry* is all about shar­ing per­spect­ives.  On our big uni­ver­sity cam­pus, and in our increas­ingly burdened lives, how often do we get a chance to have a mean­ing­ful con­ver­sa­tion about things that mat­ter with someone very dif­fer­ent from your­self?  NOT OFTEN – or if you do you’re lucky.  Mostly, I talk to the same couple […]

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Forest Ethics Event

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

This poster caught my eye as I was grabbing cof­fee at Sprouts today…
Author Andrew Niki­foruk and renowned pho­to­grapher Ian McAl­lister team up to dis­cuss the effects of a pro­posed Enbridge pipeline that would carry oil from Alberta’s Tar Sands to the BC coast. Their pho­to­graphs and stor­ies high­light the social and envir­on­mental costs of Tar […]

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