Catch the Sochi 2014 (and Vancouver 2010) Olympic fever
Can’t make it to Sochi 2014? Not to worry. There are over 20 UBC experts available to comment on the Sochi Games, from security to sports science at: http://news.ubc.ca/2014/02/04/story-ideas-and-experts-for-the-sochi-games/. Find Games-related experts, Q&As and feature stories about UBC people going to Sochi; Russia; Athlete health, sport medicine and doping; Sport psychology; Sustainability and the […]
All in a graduate student researcher’s day (Feb. 18, 2014)
As a graduate student, would you like to discover, gather, create and share your scholarly research with others who are interested in studying your area of research or with those who are interested in pursuing an exciting graduate student career like yours? If so, don’t miss out on the upcoming Graduate Student Workshop Series’ events […]
New sustainable, socially responsible mining institute is underway
Earlier this week, a new Canadian institute was created to ‘help developing countries benefit from their mining resources in environmentally and socially responsible ways’. Named as the Canadian International Institute for Extractive Industries and Development (CIIEID), it is ‘a coalition between the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and École Polytechnique de Montréal (EPM)’. […]
In the Spotlight: IKBLC Multimedia collection in cIRcle
As part of the UBC Library, the Irving K Barber Learning Centre (IKBLC) ‘supports the University’s academic and community engagement missions through space, services, programming and more’. Since 2008, it ‘fosters and supports opportunities for engagement with communities across British Columbia’. Years later, it continues to ‘engage the UBC Library and the Learning Centre with […]
In the Spotlight: IRES Research Papers and Working Papers collections in cIRcle
Need to find openly accessible interdisciplinary graduate research and/or faculty-based working papers on resources, the environment (for example, climate change) and sustainability? Curious about the effects of fair trade certification on social capital? Or, interested in a literature review about energy behaviour studies? [Hint: These are the top three IRES items in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital […]