Posts from the ‘education’ category

The Three Course Connection Dinner!

Anisa says: Does it feel like Science, Arts and Commerce at UBC are completely segregated disciplines to the point that the students from each faculty seemed…

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Looking for some help with the Phylomon project

Not sure if you remember this, but I’ve been happily watching a little web project of mine grow over time. It’s known as the Phylo project,…

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Learning and Travelling in Guatemala (GCTA 2010)

[The following post was written by Gabriel Ross about his experience as a student in the Global Citizenship Term Abroad (GCTA) Program in Guatemala this past…

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Bring a bit of Terry* into your class

We’re looking for all of you Terry* fans to start thinking about how to get some of the interdisciplinary mixing that Terry* loves so much into…

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Hmm.

Grade inflation in American universities (via the NY Times) : Interesting. Thoughts?

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Hey look at that! I’m on YouTube (and I’m not doing a silly dance!)

In this video, I’m actually speaking (as oppose to dancing silly), since it looks like TEDx has released the mini talks we gave on our experiences…

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World TB Day at UBC

Tomorrow, Wednesday March 24th, the Department of Microbiology and Immunology is co-hosting a TB awareness day to mark World TB Day. From the event website: WTBD-UBC…

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The PHYLO(MON) project: Information Meeting Numero Uno (March 25th)

O.K. We’re just about ready to launch this thing, so it’s high time, I had a proper chance to talk about it. So… If you are…

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UBC MIX Program! (Sounds like a dating service, but not really)

Just a little heads up that the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund has kindly green lighted funding for Geoff’s TEDxTt2008 Wish. Which, in case, you don’t…

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Phylomon project update!

This is straight from the main page. As well, the first UBC phylomon info meeting will be held on March 25th, 4:30pm at the Michael Smith…

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