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Available Episodes (25)
Hear Professor Stephen J. Toope talk about what the University has been doing over the last few years followed by Head of the Voice and Opera Division Nancy Hermiston during Focus UBC:...
Published: Tuesday, 08 July 2008 14:40:30
Duration: 01:06:55
Size: 73.62 MB
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Hear Socilogy and Women's Studies Professor Becki Ross talk about the complex world of professional female burlesque/ striptease in postwar Vancouver.
Published: Thursday, 05 June 2008 16:22:06
Duration: 00:17:30
Size: 19.27 MB
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Hear Forestry Professor, John McLean discuss the destruction caused by the pine beetle and options for future forest management.
Published: Thursday, 05 June 2008 16:20:13
Duration: 00:17:37
Size: 19.39 MB
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Hear Academic Director of the UBC Ch'nook Aboringinal Business Education, Dr. John Claxton talk about the innovative program.
Published: Thursday, 05 June 2008 16:18:52
Duration: 00:13:53
Size: 15.27 MB
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Even wondered what it's like behind the scenes of a popular TV show? Panel participants, Cal Shumiatcher, BA'81, Mark McGuckin, BA'04, and Calum MacLeaod, BA'03, of Road Hockey Rumble...
Published: Thursday, 05 June 2008 16:17:57
Duration: 00:33:45
Size: 37.13 MB
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Hear UBC Finance Professor Maurice Levi talk about the recent appreciation of the loonie and what is behind the major movement in our nation's currency.
Published: Thursday, 05 June 2008 16:16:56
Duration: 00:15:25
Size: 16.96 MB
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For many centuries, thinkers have been trying to unravel the source of a happy and fulfilling life. Hear UBC Psychology Graduate Student, Lara Aknin, BA' 05, talk about why people often...
Published: Thursday, 05 June 2008 16:15:24
Duration: 00:18:47
Size: 20.66 MB
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Hear UBC President, Prof. Stephen Toope and two of his predecessors, Dr. Martha Piper (UBC's 11th President & Vice-Chancellor) and Dr. David Strangway (UBC's 10th President & Vice-Chancellor)...
Published: Thursday, 05 June 2008 16:12:32
Duration: 00:22:34
Size: 24.83 MB
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After 9/11, the US pressured other states to integrate their police, intelligence and military with US security systems and policy. According to Maureen Webb, Canada has been in the...
Published: Tuesday, 01 April 2008 18:18:41
Duration: 00:16:00
Size: 17.6 MB
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Professor Marjorie Cohn analyzes the six major ways she feels the Bush administration has violated US and international law. In her view, since 9/11 the Bush administration has used...
Published: Tuesday, 01 April 2008 18:20:25
Duration: 00:20:58
Size: 23.08 MB
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The Honourable Claire L'Heureux-Dubé traces the development of international human rights and humanitarian law from the early days of the League of Nations, to the formation of the
Published: Tuesday, 01 April 2008 18:25:45
Duration: 00:24:06
Size: 26.51 MB
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On March 7, 1908, the University Act was signed in Victoria. 100 years later fellow UBC alumni join in Victoria to celebrate. Dr. Patricia Roy (BA'60, PhD'70), Professor Emerita, Department...
Published: Friday, 28 March 2008 17:48:14
Duration: 00:21:38
Size: 23.81 MB
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At the AAAS news briefing in Boston, MA, UBC Professor Daniel Pauly joins Stanford's Barbara Block, World Wildlife Fund's Jose Ingles, and UBC Professor Rashid Sumaila in arguing that...
Published: Tuesday, 19 February 2008 18:35:07
Duration: 00:12:23
Size: 13.62 MB
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Prof. Stephen Toope, President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of British Columbia, discusses the Geoff Plant report on higher education, Campus 2020, and why three of its recommendations...
Published: Wednesday, 31 October 2007 12:37:15
Duration: 00:15:29
Size: 17.04 MB
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UBC’s 12th president, Professor Stephen Toope and PhD candidate and Trudeau Scholar, Aliette Shenin, engage in a conversation about the student experience at UBC. Fuel your body and...
Published: Friday, 14 December 2007 18:58:54
Duration: 00:22:35
Size: 24.85 MB
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How big is your ecological footprint and what can you do to make it smaller? Sustainability: Actions that Make a Difference is a panel discussion moderated by UBC’s new Director of...
Published: Friday, 14 December 2007 18:57:34
Duration: 00:30:28
Size: 33.52 MB
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Why do homicidal psychopaths talk about food when they confess their crimes? Psychopaths are cold and callous individuals who often mimic appropriate emotional behaviour to ease interactions...
Published: Friday, 14 December 2007 18:56:00
Duration: 00:21:40
Size: 23.84 MB
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Arts One, begun in 1967 as an experimental seminar- and tutorial- based program in the humanities, quickly became an established institution at UBC, one chosen by some of the university’s...
Published: Friday, 14 December 2007 18:53:14
Duration: 00:25:35
Size: 28.14 MB
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Dr. Evans, UBC Engineering professor, will tackle the prospect of global climate change brought about primarily by our prolific energy use and heavy dependence on fossil fuels. Learn...
Published: Friday, 14 December 2007 18:50:28
Duration: 00:21:35
Size: 23.75 MB
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Dr. Max Cynader is Director of the Brain Research Centre, a Canada Research Chair in Brain Development, and a Professor of Ophthalmology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada,...
Published: Friday, 14 December 2007 18:44:25
Duration: 00:25:09
Size: 27.68 MB
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This book chronicles Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon's attempt to feed themselves for a year on food grown and produced within 100 miles of Vancouver. The publishers describes The 100-Mile...
Published: Tuesday, 29 May 2007 12:46:33
Duration: 00:25:58
Size: 28.57 MB
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In this special podcast compilation of audio clips, a number of 2007 University of British Columbia graduating students speak on how their time at UBC has influenced their personal
Published: Thursday, 10 May 2007 18:35:37
Duration: 00:02:45
Size: 3.03 MB
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My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life."Why did you leave Sierra Leone?""Because there is a war.""You mean, you saw people running around...
Published: Friday, 11 May 2007 15:34:30
Duration: 00:31:41
Size: 34.86 MB
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Local UBC Toronto Alumni and Great Trekker award recipients, John Turner, BA'49, LLD'94, Allan Fotheringham, BA'54, and the late Pierre Berton, BA'41, DLit'85, connected through UBC...
Published: Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:09:46
Duration: 00:39:08
Size: 43.06 MB
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Learn about the architectural challenges facing the UBC Vancouver Campus through a case study of the University of California Los Angeles featuring UCLA campus architect Jeffrey Averill....
Published: Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:12:34
Duration: 01:41:47
Size: 111.96 MB
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