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September 2015
Tue
22
Sep
Green College Leading Scholars' Series
Navin Ramankutty, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, UBC
Our food production system is one of the biggest environmental threats. This talk will explore an evaluative framework that assesses how diverse farming systems contribute to various objectives of this system.
Tue
22
Sep
Green College Leading Scholars' Series
Jiaying Zhao, Psychology, UBC
Environmental sustainability depends on not only the development of green technologies and policies, but also on a thorough understanding of human behaviour. This talk will explore how psychology can be used to promote pro-environmental behaviors.
October 2015
Tue
6
Oct
Green College Leading Scholars' Series
Darko Odic, Psychology, UBC
Why is learning sometimes easy and sometimes hard? In this talk, Darko Odic, Green College Leading Scholar, will use the tools of psychology and cognitive science to explore how young children's earliest intuitions of number—their ability to roughly estimate number through their Approximate Number System (ANS)—relate to learning and use of symbolic mathematics.
Tue
6
Oct
Green College Leading Scholars' Series
Julie Robillard, Neurology, UBC
How are online resources reshaping health care? Julie Robillard, Green College Leading Scholar, will describe her research on online information-seeking, online information-sharing, and computerized self-diagnosis tools—as well as the ethical implications of these behaviours.
November 2015
Tue
3
Nov
Green College Leading Scholars' Series
Judith Paltin, English, UBC
This presentation compares conventional analytical approaches to two famous crowd actions, the Irish Easter Rising (1916) and the London Battle at Cable Street (1936), to roughly contemporaneous fictional representations of crowd movements and collective mental states.
Tue
3
Nov
Green College Leading Scholars' Series
Ivan Beschastnikh, Computer Science, UBC
Software runs the world. Much of our daily life is wrapped up in software, yet most software comes with no assurance that it will work, or that it works as expected. In this talk, Ivan Beschastnikh will discuss a research area in software engineering that concerns itself with reverse engineering of software specifications.
Tue
3
Nov
Green College Leading Scholars' Series
Judith Paltin, English, UBC
This presentation compares conventional analytical approaches to two famous crowd actions, the Irish Easter Rising (1916) and the London Battle at Cable Street (1936), to roughly contemporaneous fictional representations of crowd movements and collective mental states.
March 2016
Tue
1
Mar
Green College Leading Scholars' Series
Vikram Yadav, Chemical and Biological Engineering, UBC
Vikram Yadav will speak about his learnings about the human brain and his lab’s attempts to reverse engineer the organ to study neurodegeneration and discover new therapeutics.
Tue
1
Mar
Green College Leading Scholars' Series
Jude Walker, Educational Studies
In this talk, Jude Walker will look at how, despite government calls for evidence-based policy, and desires of some academics to influence policy, there is often a disconnect between research and policy.
Tue
22
Mar
Green College Leading Scholars' Series
Vanessa De Oliviera Andreotti and Sereana Naepi-Patterson Educational Studies, UBC
In this seminar, we critically explore the debates around turning universities into 'pluri-versities' as a way to protect spaces for socially accountable, critically informed, rigorous, sober, and multi-voiced critical conversations about alternative futures.