News

Below are news items from the UBC IRES community.

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

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

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

Marie Auger-Méthé (Assistant Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and Department of Statistics) becomes an IRES Faculty Associate!

Scott McKenzie (RES PhD Candidate) writes a piece in The Conversation

Our RES Graduate Program application is open!
Deadline to apply is January 15, 2018.

January is Sexual Assault Awareness Month at UBC

Happy Earth Day!

David Boyd, IRES Associate Professor, in the news

IRES welcomes two Visiting Professors – Bradley Eyre and Chris Barrington-Leigh!

Ada Smith (RES MA) recipient of the Elizabeth Henry Scholarship!

IRES Faculty Kai Chan has been named a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists!

Congratulations to our November 2017 RMES/RES Graduates!

Congratulations to our November 2017 RMES/RES Graduates!

Congratulations to our November 2017 RMES/RES Graduates!

RES PhD Candidate Michael Lathuillière’s recent publication in Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies!

TA position for UBC ASIC 220

New Adjunct Professor- Babak Pourbohloul!

Lisa Powell (IRES Postdoctoral Fellow) – “Farm to school in British Columbia: mobilizing food literacy for food sovereignty” article published

New Graham McDowell (PhD student) and Michele Koppes (IRES Faculty Associate) Publication