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Celebrate Research Week 2011 @ UBC – Vancouver Institute Lecture

The Haunting of Canadian Culture: From the Ghost of Tom Thompson to the Ghosts of Vimy Ridge – Professor Sherrill Grace Professor Grace is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Distinguished University Scholar at UBC. Among her awards are the 2008 Canada Council Killam Prize in Humanities, and the Lorne Pierce […]

CRW 2011 @ UBC is here

Celebrate Research Week comprises a great number of interesting and diverse events, each with their own approach and audience.  In 2010, an international conference on Sport and Society was held; corresponding with the Olympic Games and CBC’s Quirks & Quarks Question Show was taped live at the Chan Centre where UBC experts answered the top […]

MURC 2011 is almost here

The Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC) celebrates the contributions of undergraduate scholarly inquiry/research at UBC.  Both students who are currently engaged in undergraduate research and students who are interested in getting connected to an undergraduate research experience are encouraged to attend. UBC community members are also welcome to attend this annual celebration of undergraduate scholarly work.  […]

University Librarian talks at SLAIS Colloquia

On 2 March 2011, Ingrid Parent, UBC’s University Librarian, will present the above colloquium at the UBC School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) Colloquia for Spring 2011. Abstract: In today’s changing information society, knowledge curation is in demand, information literacy is essential, and those entering the workforce must be ready to demonstrate new […]

Summon: your one-stop search tool

Dear users – UBC Library is proud to present Summon, your new one-stop search tool. Summon provides fast, relevance-ranked results on any topic from UBC Library’s collections in a single search. It will let you search the full range of UBC Library’s vast holdings – including books, journals, articles, newspapers, government publications, maps, data, conference […]