Many of the courses and tours I’ve designed and delivered have included UBC Farm. In the past, I have enlisted one of the UBC Farm […] Read More
Author: Spring Gillard
I’m working on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant or SSHRC, pronounced shirk for short. Those of you who have done a Masters […] Read More
Fall festival season is upon us. I wrote about the Moon Festival coming up on Saturday, September 29th hosted by the Still Moon Arts Society. […] Read More
Over the last few weeks I’ve been sharing photos of buildings and other structures made from solar panels on my Facebook page. Photovoltaic Cells (PV) […] Read More
Walmart has a commercial running right now that features a young boy at a kitchen table with a giant box of frosted flakey cereal in […] Read More
The Rivershed Society of BC is hosting a 3 hour dinner cruise on the Fraser aboard the historic MV Native Paddlewheeler. The dinner is the […] Read More
Every May long weekend I celebrate the opening of the Kitsilano pool. Then it rains til July. I still swim during the rainy months, alongside […] Read More
In the mid-1990s, I became interested in what was then a relatively new phenomenon, genetically modified foods, an industry ripe with politics. Although it was […] Read More
I attended a grad student orientation at UBC last week. The uplifting video and the speakers succeeded in making me feel like one of the […] Read More
I attended a grad student orientation event at the University of British Columbia (UBC) this past week. About 700 or so twenty-somethings attended with me, […] Read More