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September 2015

Tue
15
Sep
Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life

Jean Barman, Education, UBC

When Jean Barman first wrote on an indigenous topic three decades ago, it was rejected for publication on the grounds that “nobody wants to read about Indians.” As she looks back on her career, Jean reflects on how much has changed.

October 2015

Tue
13
Oct
Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life

George Bluman, Math, UBC

Join us as George Bluman, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, reflects on his experiences as an undergraduate student at UBC (1960-64), as a PhD student at Caltech (1964-67), and as a professor at UBC (1968-2014).

December 2015

Tue
1
Dec
Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life

Dianne Newell, History, UBC

Dianne Newell belonged to the first cohort of baby boomers in Canada to attend university in "The Sixties"—not the decade, but, as Doug Owram reminds us in "Born at the Right Time," the era. Social revolution was in the air and, often, the streets. The story she shares links that context to the unanticipated choices she made in the years that followed.

January 2016

Tue
19
Jan
Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life

Mike Goldberg, Commerce and Business

Mike Goldberg has been studying diverse aspects of the economy of cities, their land markets, transportation systems and global competitiveness. In this talk, Mike will connect how these interests arose from growing up and attending school in Brooklyn, New York during the 1940s and 1950s.

February 2016

Tue
9
Feb
Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life

Gail Bellward, Pharmaceutical Sciences. UBC

Dr. Bellward will provide an overview of her extensive career in pharmacology and toxicology—from research on effects of dioxin contamination from pulp mill effluent in avian wildlife species to a drug education program for elementary school children.

March 2016

Tue
15
Mar
Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life

Judith Myers, Zoology

Judith Myers will talk about her career path through this transition, touching on her passion for basic and applied ecology, women in science, and current environmental challenges.

September 2016

Tue
20
Sep
Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life

Les Lavkulich, Land and Food Systems

We are simply a keystone species in a complex, adaptive evolving world—one full of surprises. How does following our passion play into this world?

October 2016

Tue
18
Oct
Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life

Olav Slaymaker, Geography

Geographers study everything and, some would say, nothing. They take their lead from Alexander von Humboldt's "Kosmos: Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung" (1845-1862 in five volumes), a holistic digest of the scientific study of terrestrial phenomena. Where does this vision place the geographer in the twenty first century academy?

November 2016

Tue
15
Nov
Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life

Paul Burns, Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies

By teaching people to read texts responsibly, religious communities and universities are addressing the pressing issue of religious fundamentalism and violence.

January 2017

Tue
10
Jan
Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life

Priscilla (Cindy) Greenwood, Mathematics

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