Strategy 14 – Interdisciplinary Education

Accounting for climate change: New experiential learning opportunities

Accounting for climate change: New experiential learning opportunities

Please visit https://sustain.ubc.ca/stories/accounting-climate-change-new-experiential-learning-opportunities to read the story.

Young researcher looking at the samples under the microscope, she is wearing a face mask and protective equipment

Professional Master’s will train next generation of biotech experts

Please visit https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/01/02/professional-masters-will-train-next-generation-of-biotech-experts/ to read the story.

UBC Education Library teaching the teacher through community field experience

UBC Education Library teaching the teacher through community field experience

Community Field Experience (CFE) is a unique course within the UBC Bachelor of Education program. Over the course of three-weeks, teacher candidates who have finished their school-based practicums can be placed with a community partner to broaden their pedagogical horizons. Community partners include alternative learning sites like museums, international schools, camps and—for the last four […]

UBC Okanagan’s Bachelor of Sustainability a degree of change

UBC Okanagan’s Bachelor of Sustainability a degree of change

On a hilltop in British Columbia, Jacqueline Rowe and her team watched smoke fill the skies as three separate wildfires raged across the landscapes of Kamloops, Merritt and West Kelowna. The encroaching blazes and the trail of devastation left behind underscored for Rowe the escalating threat of climate change and the pressing need for action. […]

Haida Gwaii Institute: Q&A with Carrie Anne Vanderhoop

Haida Gwaii Institute: Q&A with Carrie Anne Vanderhoop

Please visit https://forestry.ubc.ca/news/haida-gwaii-institute-qa-carrie-anne-vanderhoop/ to read the story.

A reusable IV bag and a gamified toy retail machine: New Venture Design student projects shine at annual showcase

A reusable IV bag and a gamified toy retail machine: New Venture Design student projects shine at annual showcase

New Venture Design is a course offered jointly by UBC Applied Science and UBC Sauder and is open to students from all faculties. Course participants work in interdisciplinary teams to develop a business plan and prototype of a new product or process. The Life Centre on UBC Campus hosted a Design and Innovation Day on April 11, […]

Science at the crossroads of creativity and ethics

Science at the crossroads of creativity and ethics

A common image that crosses the mind while thinking about cell biology is simply watching and studying cells under a microscope. But Dr. Robin Young, Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Biology of the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science at UBC Okanagan, has redefined this conventional perception of the discipline through a […]

Accounting. Marketing. Leadership. Lego?

Accounting. Marketing. Leadership. Lego?

Picture a typical MBA course, and you’re likely to envision students engrossed in classes on topics such as Organizational Behaviour, Economics, Management and Business Ethics. Enter Dr. Kari Marken’s Creativity course classroom, however, and you’d be in for a surprise. After all, playing with Lego bricks or drawing on papered walls aren’t exactly the activities […]

Announcing the 2022/23 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund Projects

Announcing the 2022/23 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund Projects

The 2022/23 TLEF funding round is complete. The TLEF has awarded $2,149,250 in funding to 10 Large TLEF Transformation Projects and 43 Small TLEF Innovation Projects. A total of 53 new and returning TLEF projects were funded out of a pool of 75 applications submitted for funding from faculty, staff and students at the UBC Vancouver campus. Approximately […]

2021/22 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund Projects

2021/22 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund Projects

This year, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver, redeployed $2-million dollars in funding from the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) to help support Faculties in their efforts to transition courses online and ensure high-quality learning experiences for students. In addition to the $2 million […]