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NEWSLETTER | October 2020
ANNOUNCEMENTS
2020-21 PWIAS Academic Advisory Board Appointed
Our renewed and reconstituted Academic Advisory Board will provide advice on Institute matters, including its academic governance and mandate.
RECENT PWIAS PODCASTS
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Ep 14: Paul Keown on How to Understand the Immune System Paul Keown (UBC Medicine) expert in immunology and transplantation, on how the immune system affects our health. Ep 13: Diane Srivastava on Ecological Networks in Nature and Science Diane Srivastava (UBC Zoology) is an expert in ecology and head of the Srivastava Lab. |
RECENT WALL SCHOLAR VIDEOS
Satish Gopalakrishnan Asks How Do We Evaluate Risk?
Wall Scholar Sathish Gopalakrishnan (UBC Electrical & Computer Engineering) has been exploring how individuals and societies understand risk in cyber-physical systems.
Sima Godfrey on War and Collective Forgetting
Wall Scholar Sima Godfrey (UBC French, Hispanic and Italian Studies) discusses her research on why the Crimean War doesn't figure in French cultural memory, and what role disease might play in collective forgetting.
OTHER NEWS
Moura Quayle Appointed Chair of Peter Wall Endowment Board of Trustees
Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President, Academic Affairs at UBC, Moura Quayle is now Chair of the Peter Wall Endowment Board of Trustees.
The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at UBC provides opportunities for world-class scholars to explore innovative research questions in a vibrant, collegial environment spanning all disciplines. Our programs draw together scholars from UBC and around the world to engage in deep and unconstrained research into some of the most profound questions and challenges facing humanity.
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