RES PhD Candidate Michael Lathuillière and IRES Faculty Mark Johnson have a new publication!
Photo credit Omer Bozkurt from flickr/Creative Commons
IRES Faculty Associate Rashid Sumaila wins Benchley Ocean Award for Excellence in Science
IRES Faculty Associate Rashid Sumaila has won a prestigious Peter Benchley Ocean Award, in recognition for his work on sustainable fisheries around the world. We at IRES would like to extend our warm congratulations to Dr. Sumaila for his achievement! The UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries’ press release can be found here: […]
RES PhD student Helina Jolly wins the Nehru Humanitarian Graduate Scholarship in Indian Studies – Congratulations!
RES PhD student, Helina Jolly, the 2016 recipient of the Nehru Humanitarian Graduate Scholarship in Indian Studies, was honoured for her work at the annual Goel Family Charitable Foundation’s Jawaharlal Nehru Award Night. The Goel family has been supporting generations of students at UBC through this and seven other student awards. Congratulations Helina! An interview […]
September 7, 2017: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Simon Goring
University of Wisconsin
The first IRES Seminar for the 2017/2018 Winter Session! Photo credit: Joshua Mayer from flickr/Creative Commons
IRES Seminar Series resumes Thursday, September 7
See you on September 7! (Photo credit: Dennis Leung)
September 14, 2017: IRES Student Seminar
Speakers: Ivana Zelenika and Lucy Rodina
Photo credit: Mark Kao from flickr/Creative Commons
IRES faculty member Mark Johnson receives Canada Research Chair – Congratulations!
Photo credit: Thales from flickr/Creative Commons
Graduate Student Summer Opportunity
January 5, 2016 I’m writing to you in your role as Department Head to share a program being offered to graduate students and postdocs this coming May in Ottawa and Montréal. The program is called “Science Outside the Lab,” and it’s a week-long immersion into the world of science policy and decision making. Through the […]
In the News: IRES Postdoctoral Fellow Nathan Bennett talks putting people at the center of conservation
IRES Postdoctoral Fellow Nathan Bennett recently published an article on Biological Conservation titled “Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation” and was recently featured on the University of Washington’s website. Link to the UW article can be found here: http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/12/06/put-people-at-the-center-of-conservation-new-study-advises/ Link to the published journal article can be found here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320716305328 Nathan […]
April 6, 2017: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speakers: Hadi Dowlatabadi and Justin Ritchie
(Last IRES Seminar for Term 2)
This is a joint presentation with Hadi Dowlatabadi and Justin Ritchie. Photo credit: Moyan Brenn from flickr/Creative Commons