Next week The Terry Project will host Partners In Health – currently the largest provider of health services and relief in Haiti – for a forum concerning the state of health care and socio-economic development in Haiti one year after the devastating earthquake that struck Port Au Prince on January [...]

Next September, 165 university students from around the country will attend the 2011 IMPACT! Youth Conference for Sustainability Leadership, a three-day event that invites student leaders to explore real sustainability solutions with national academic and business leaders. Held at the campus of the University of Guelph, this conference provides student attendees [...]

Interested in learning more about student involvement at UBC, the Terry Panda sat down with UBV VP Students, Brian Sullivan, to talk a bit about his role on campus, the Terry Project, and UBC’s ongoing efforts towards greater global engagement through the ‘Place and Promise’ Plan.

Those of you who attended TEDx Terry Talks know that the UBC Dollar Project is a close Terry* partner. Below is a description of their upcoming event, The Briefing 2011:

The UBC Dollar Project is a global issues club at The University of British Columbia that aims to demonstrate the power [...]

This upcoming discussion is bound to be of interest to many UBC students:

In response to a strong expression of interest from students, a forum has been organized to provide a space for dialogue about issues raised by the recent publication of the Maclean’s article “Too Asian?”

The forum will be held on Thursday, [...]

According to the BBC, earlier this morning the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong was the scene of one of the worst military clashes between the North and the South since the Korean war. According to initial reports, South Korean artillery positions retaliated after more than 50 shells fired by the North landed on [...]

The Office of the Vice-President, Students and the Simon K.Y. Lee Global Lounge recently announced the launch of The UBC Global Fund, an initiative that is sure to be of interest to some Terry Readers. Below is a description of the initiative:

The UBC Global Fund provides small grants [...]

This is to notify everyone interested in attending our upcoming Global Speaker Series Talk by Dambisa Moyo that tickets for Monday’s event have all been distributed. If you have not gotten a ticket but would still like to attend, be sure to come to the Chan Centre on Monday morning before [...]

As most of our readers hopefully already know, next week Terry will have the pleasure of welcoming Dambisa Moyo to the UBC Chan Centre to talk about her book, ‘Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa’. Like many who have read Dead Aid before, I’m [...]

A few months ago I was watching The Hour’s George Strombolopolous interview Canadian-Somalian recording artist (and soon-to-be Terry Global Speaker Series-speaker) K’naan, whose hit song ‘Wavin Flag’ had begun enjoying a period of enormous popularity. Originally featured on his 2009 album Troubadour, by the time of the interview the song had topped the charts [...]

This flash applet from the University of Utah’s Genetic Science Learning Center is just cool. It is absurdly cool. It is almost inappropriately cool. I cannot even begin to describe how amazingly cool and valuable and needed this kind of thing is. Please check this out.