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PWIAS has been the most prominent space for interdisciplinary research at UBC and has built a distinguished international profile through the many par…
Learn More about the content: PWIAS programming has been discontinued on August 31st, 2023.
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Congratulations to 2017 Wall Scholar Shannon Walsh who recently received a Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts. The award recogni…
Learn More about the content: Shannon Walsh receives Governor General’s Award.
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Mohammed Rafi Arefin, 2021 Wall Scholar, Executive Committee member at UBC’s Centre for Climate Justice and part of the 2022 PWIAS Catalyst Leadership…
Learn More about the content: Renters face another hot summer with scant protections.
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Artists Within the Anthropocene is a three-part Friday evening series (April 21, May 26, June 23, 5pm-7pm) presented in partnership with the Belkin Ga…
Learn More about the content: Artists Within the Anthropocene.
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Leila Harris’s PWIAS supported BC Makers’ Lab project was recently featured in The Ubyssey. The project is one of several Catalyst Collabo…
Learn More about the content: BC Makers’ Lab Connects Artists and Academics for Climate Advocacy.
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2022 Wall Scholar Derek Gladwin has published an article about energy transition in society in Environmental Education Research. The article argues th…
Learn More about the content: Energy Literacy: Towards a Conceptual Framework for Energy Transition.
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Wall Scholar Danielle Ignace is a member of a new collaborative initiative aimed at making scientific terminology in ecology and evolutionary. The E…
Learn More about the content: Championing Inclusive Terminology in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
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Climate Emergency Week is your chance to join collective action for justice, people, and our planet. Take part in events, workshops and activiti…
Learn More about the content: Feb. 1 – 16: Climate Emergency Week at UBC.
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2022 Wall Scholar Derek Gladwin (Language & Literary Education) collaborator Dr. Naoko Ellis (Chemical & Biological Engineering) were recently…
Learn More about the content: Revolutionizing Climate Education in Universities.
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2022 Wall Scholar, Pasang Yangjee Sherpa was recently interviewed by Columbia University Climate School’s Glacier Hub blog, where she shared her…
Learn More about the content: A Pyramid on Everest, Caught in the Balance.
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2022 Wall Scholar Pasang Yangjee Sherpa (Asian Studies/Critical Indigenous Studies) was interviewed by Carbon Brief about the sobering findings in “th…
Learn More about the content: Half of World’s Glaciers to Disappear with 1.5C of Global Warming.
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2022 Wall Scholar Ethan Raker (Sociology) recently published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. Climate Related Disasters and Chil…
Learn More about the content: Climate Related Disasters and Children’s Health: Evidence From Hurricane Harvey.