Roots of Healing
Medicinal plants workshop, tea tasting, display of images, storytelling.
Competency-Based Curricular Design
Please join us for a presentation on competency-based curricular design, with special guests Dr. Nancy Winslade and Dr. Gurdeep Parhar. Dr. Winslade will focus on assessment while Dr. Parhar will address the challenges of incorporating qualities such as advocacy and empathy into a curriculum that has a strong focus on technical knowledge and ability. All welcome.
MSL/CHiBi Poster Session
The Michael Smith Laboratories (MSL) and The Centre for High-Throughput Biology (CHiBi) will be highlighting the interdisciplinary research conducted by our diverse group of world-class researchers and teaching faculty, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and research associates. This Poster Session will provide an overview of the research conducted by many of the 22 groups who make up the MSL and CHiBi. Including research in medical and animal molecular genetics; statistics, genomics and experimental evolution; bioengineering and bioanalytical/process technologies; and plant and forestry molecular genetics.
UBC Jazz Ensemble II
UBC Jazz Ensemble I
Directed by Fred Stride
Wednesday Noon Hours: Julia Nolan (Saxophone) and Jane Hayes (Piano)
Recent works by Fred Stride, Matthew Emery, Jacquie Leggatt, Colin MacDonald, Dorothy Chang, and Piet Swerts.
Visualizing and Quantifying How Language Is Layered and Ordered In Time
Human language is a complex and sequentially-ordered behavior. This talk presents recurrence quantification as a central tool in understanding the processes that underlie linguistic behavior.
Teaching Through Visual Cognition In An Immersive Online Environment
This event is not just a lecture, it is also a discussion forum. The facilitators are subject specialists in math education, language education, music education, and art education. During the discussion, participants will have the opportunity to try out the immersive online learning environment.
What Next? Creating Your Own Community-Based Experience
UBC Chapman and Innovation Grant winners from this past summer share how they took past experiences and shaped an exciting new projects with community. There will be opportunities to meet and mingle with the speakers and learn about how you can engage with community.
Refreshments will be served starting at 9:15am.
A Tutorial On Recurrence Methods for Linguistics and Psychology
This will be a talk on the use of dynamical systems modelling in our understanding of high-level (e.g., discourse) language behavior.
Celebrate Science 2013 Making Science Fun
Join us for a celebration of science! Want to engage youth in science and math—then find out about interesting science books and the authors who write them, simple hands-on activities and ways to make science fun! Hear from Dr. Andrew Trites, one of the UBC science team that brought the blue whale skeleton from PEI. And best of all go on a guided tour of the Beaty Biodiversity Museum and learn about their fascinating collections and exciting programs.