[CANCELLED] Academic Appetizer Hour with Green College Leading Scholars

Exploring, Creating and (Maybe) Experiencing Justice and Belonging in Higher Education
Laura Yvonne Bulk, Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy

I am a daughter, friend, cousin, tante; I am a Dutch settler to W̱SÁNEĆ territory. I am also a first-generation university student, a disabled scholar, and an occupational therapy educator. As an Assistant Professor of Teaching at the new site located in Surrey, I have the opportunity to engage in educational leadership activities. My work focuses on promoting justice (right relationship) in academia, interprofessional education and in distributed health professions education specifically. I am particularly interested in the power of creative techniques and solidarity in anti-ableism, decolonization, and other equity-focussed work.

Computational Principles of Human Motor Learning
Hyosub Kim, Kinesiology

My research program aims to shed light on fundamental principles of human motor learning. Towards this end, I combine behavioral experiments, computational modeling and Bayesian inference. I now lead the Computation, Cognition and Movement (CCM) Lab at UBC, where ongoing projects involve modeling and testing how the brain combines motor prediction and sensory feedback to guide reaching movements, and how our recent movement history shapes future motor decision-making. 

Scale and Scope in Railroads
Ron Yang, Business

I am an economist specializing in industrial organization, transportation and urban economics. I am interested in how firms compete with each other in spatial settings, and how competition shapes transportation costs. My ongoing projects study long-haul drivers’ preferences to return home, returns to scale and congestion in freight railroad operations and the entry incentives of truckstops.