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New published paper from Jiaying Zhao (IRES Professor) and Ivana Zelenika (PhD Candidate): Toward zero waste events: Reducing contamination in waste streams with volunteer assistance
April 12, 2018: IRES Student Symposium
Symposium Video is now available
IRES Alumnus Megan Peloso has new position as B.C. Communications Lead with the Freshwater Alliance
Two publications with Mark Johnson (IRES Faculty) and Michael Lathuillière (PhD Candidate)
IRES Seminar Series resumes Thursday, September 6
Gunilla Öberg (IRES Faculty) published in Environmental Science and Policy! Read it here.
We are seeking a Program Coordinator to run our IRES Vancouver Summer Program May – June 2018
Zia Mehrabi (IRES Postdoc) has correspondence published in Nature!
Congratulations to Dean of Science Excellence in Service Award recipient Gillian Harris (IRES Manager)!
Two new IRES Faculty Associates: Nadja Kunz and Sumeet Gulati!
New op-ed in The Conversation by Jiaying Zhao and Leila Harris
Nudging the city and residents of Cape Town to save water
Outstanding Student Paper Award Winner at the AGU-Michael Lathuillière (IRES PhD Candidate)
Dr. Rashid Sumaila (IRES Faculty Associate) endowed prize upon being named the 2017 Volvo Environment Prize laureate
IRES Faculty Leila Harris and previous IRES Postdoc Crystal Tremblay published a new article
Krista English (RES PhD Candidate) co-author of a chapter in the new Handbook of Research Methods in Complexity Science
Invitation to Oceans Protection Plan North Coast Dialogue Forum, Spring 2018
Sameer Shah and Scott McKenzie (RES PhD Candidates) published an article in Macleans
New faculty member Amanda Giang starting in IRES in January 2018!
New IRES Adjuct Professor – Rustam Sengupta
Mark Johnson and Kai Chan win 2017 UBC Faculty Research Awards