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Deadline to Enter to Win a Travel Voucher | Jan 31, 2023

Are you ready to travel?
Enter now to win a $500 travel voucher from Overseas Adventure Travel (OAT).

OAT has donated four $500 travel vouchers, valid for any of their trips through May 2024. Limit one entry per person.

All members of the College are eligible to win a $500 travel voucher from Overseas Adventure Travel (OAT), one of AROHE's (Association of Retirement Organizations in Higher Education) sponsors.

ENTER to win $500 OAT Travel Voucher

Tuesday, 31 January 2023 - 10:00am
online
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada

CURAC Later Life Learning Zoom session | Jan 31, 2023

The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness with Dr. Marc Schulz

What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? According to the directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest scientific study of happiness ever conducted, the answer to these questions may be closer than you realize. McMaster is thrilled to have Dr. Marc Schulz, the associate director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, give a talk to the McMaster community about the subject matter in the just released book he has co-authored, The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness.

Meeting at 4:00pm Pacific Standard Time (Vancouver) 
(7pm Eastern Time)

Click HERE for More information and the Zoom-link

Tuesday, 31 January 2023 - 4:00pm
Zoom link in text
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada

Council Meeting | Feb 1, 2023

Wednesday, 1 February 2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Council members only
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada
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Campus Vision 2050 Engagement Session|Feb 2, 2023

Emeritus are invited to the next engagement session on the Campus Vision 2050. Help guide the planning process for the future of UBC.

Members met in the Spring and Fall of 2022 to learn about and provide feedback to support the CV2050 planning process. Recordings of the Spring event can be found on youtube. In this third engagement session members can learn about the next stages and continue to give their valuable insights on their experience and hopes for UBC in the future.

Join us for a short presentation to learn about CV2050, then participate in the conversation by asking questions and providing your insights on key CV2050 topics.

About Campus Vision 2050

The UBC Vancouver campus, situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, is home to a world-class, global university, residential neighbourhoods and a vibrant community in a growing region. In early 2022 UBC Campus and Community Planning is launching Campus Vision 2050 (CV2050), a comprehensive, two-and-a-half-year land use planning process. The CV2050 process will build on the history of this unique place and plan for what comes next for a university campus and a community in changing region and world.  

CV2050 will be developed through comprehensive engagement with Musqueam and the campus community, and informed by policy, principles, best practices, and societal imperatives like housing affordability, reconciliation, climate change, anti-racism, connectivity and community wellbeing. The public process formally launched in January 2022 with a broad conversation with the university community on needs and aspirations, and there will be several points of public engagement during Campus Vision 2050 to enable comprehensive community input.

CV2050 will lead to a long-term vision and ensure the future direction for the campus builds on what makes UBC a special place and enhances the livability, sociability and character of the campus within its unique context. The final vision and plans will support the needs of the university and balance the interests of our campus communities, our Indigenous hosts, the broader region, and the environment. 

Read more about CV2050 and find out how to get involved: campusvision2050.ubc.ca

Register for Zoom meeting

Thursday, 2 February 2023 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Zoom meeting
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada

Deadline for Nominations for Emeriti Awards

UBC Emeritus College Award for Excellence in Innovative and Creative Endeavours

Nominations due February 6, 2023

The Award of Excellence in Innovative and Creative Endeavours from the UBC Emeritus College recognizes UBC emeriti for excellence in innovative research, artistic creation or new applications of previous research since attaining emeritus status.
Each year, Emeritus College holds a ceremony to highlight both UBC and the accomplishments of its Emeriti, honouring those who have excelled and brought integrity to UBC. In addition to the recognition of the Award, recipients will receive $1,000. Any person may nominate candidates for the Award to the Emeritus College through an online nominations form.

Candidacy nominations can be submitted by any persons, however, to be considered, candidates bust be persons listed under "Emeritus Staff" within the UBC Vancouver Academic Calendar.
More information about the online application and last year’s recipient at: UBC Emeritus College website

UBC President’s Award for Distinguished Service

Nominations due February 6, 2023

The UBC President's Award for Distinguished Service honours UBC emeriti who have displayed exceptional leadership in volunteer community services.

UBC Emeritus college seeks to recognize the importance of the voluntary and community contributions made by UBC Emeriti toward broader communities. In addition to the recognition of the Award, recipients will receive $1,000. It is anticipated that the recipient(s) will direct the fund to an organization, charity, or fund of their choosing. 

Candidacy nominations can be submitted by any persons, however, to be considered, candidates bust be persons listed under "Emeritus Staff" within the UBC Vancouver Academic Calendar.
More information about the online application and past award recipients at: UBC Emeritus College website

Monday, 6 February 2023 - 4:00pm
link in the text
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada
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Groves of Academe | February 7, 2023

READING: Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously 

If you would like to join the group please contact convenor, Graeme Wynn (wynn@geog.ubc.ca). 

*Details of this in-person event will be confirmed through the group's email communications closer to the date. Please contact the convenor for more information or to be added to the group. By nature of the intimate sharing format of the group, membership size is limited.*

Learn more about the group and the format of thier activites here

Tuesday, 7 February 2023 - 3:30pm
Green College
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada

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