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June 5 Public Salon "Inspiring Ideas"
May 07, 2013
The Global Civic Policy Society presents a Public Salon on Wednesday, June 5 from 7:30-9pm at the Vancouver Playhouse. A diverse range of speakers from very different walks of life will each spend 7 minutes speaking about something they are passionate about.
Green College Principal Mark Vessey a co-applicant on successful $4 million SSHRC Partnership Grant
May 01, 2013
Applicant Paul Yachnin (McGill University) and fifteen co-applicants including Green College Principal Mark Vessey received funding to begin their multi-disciplinary project entitled "Forms of conversion: religion, culture, and cognitive ecologies in early modern Europe and its worlds."

Life Lessons Learned from The Tempest
April 26, 2013
Green College resident Brittany Welsh describes how the daunting task of mounting four shows of Shakespeare's The Tempest helped and inspired her and her colleagues in ways she hadn't envisioned when she started down the Bard's path five months earlier.
Green College Mentorship Program at Lord Strathcona Elementary
January 04, 2013
Seven Green College students volunteered at Lord Strathcona Elementary School in East Vancouver as part of UBC’s Community Learning Initiative TREK program, matching groups UBC students with elementary schools in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, and helping with reading and writing lessons and tutoring students on a one-on-one basis.

CECIL H. AND IDA GREEN VISITING PROFESSORS

Past Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professors include:

2012	Andrew Wallace-Hadrill Roman Studies Cambridge University Patricia Smith Churchland Neuroscience and Philosophy University of California, San Diego
2011	John W. Sear Anaesthetics University of Oxford Mark Harrison History of Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Jerrilynn Dodds Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
2010	Thomas D. Sisk Environmental Sciences and Policy, Northern Arizona University Gerhard Fettweis Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Jack Zipes German and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota
2009	Grant Gillett Medical Ethics, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin Hospital, Otago Bioethics Centre in New Zealand Sander Gilman Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Emory University Ludmilla Jordanova King’s College London Simon Conway Morris Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
2008	Tony Harrison Poet and Playwright, London
2007	Matthew Paterson School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa Gert Gröning Urban Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Department of Design History and Theory, College of Architecture, Media and Design Universität der Künste Berlin (Berlin University of the Arts)
2006	Rögnvaldur Hannesson Fisheries Economics, Department of Economics, Norges Handelshøskole (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration) Jack Horner Montana State University, Bozeman Scott Gilbert Biology, Swarthmore College Sheila Jasanoff Science and Technology Studies, John F. Kennedy School of Government Mary Carrington Laboratory of Genomic Diversity National Cancer Institute (Center for Cancer Research) Rachel Ankeny Unit for History and Philosophy of Science and Bioethics Program, University of Sydney
2005	Lawrence Keppie Roman History and Archaeology, University of Glasgow
2004	Ramachandra Guha Bangalore, India Kelly Oliver W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University Fred Flahiff English, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto
1972- 2003	M.H. Abrams Stephen Ambrose Elly Ameling Bruce Ames Aridjis, Homero Magda B. Arnold Karl Åström Sir Alfred Ayer George Bain Albert Bandura Owen Barfield Brian Barry Sir Derek Barton Stafford Beer E. Arthur Bell Martin Best Eberhard Bethge Bilson Malcom James Birren Konrad Bloch David Braybrooke Winslow Briggs Esther Lucille Brown A.S.V. Burgen John Caldwell Joesph Campbell John Chadwick Sir Owen Chadwick Noam Chomsky F. Combellach, Sir Alan H. Cottrell Prof. G.Y. Craig Lawrence Cremin Norman A Daniel Robert Darnion Arnold Demain Lord of Whichurch Denning Lord Diplock Robert Doll Ronald Philip Dore John Dunn Gunnar Dybwad Rosemary Dybwad Sir John Eccles W.W. Echenfelder Harold E. Edgerton Geoffrey R. Elton William Epstein Jean Erdman Martin Esslin Ursula Franklin Morton Fried Victoria A.Fromkin Theodore Gaster David Gauthier Rene Girard Phil Gold Richard Good John Charles Gordon Harry B.Gray Keith Griffin Elias Gyftopoulos John Harper Julius J. Harwood Donald Olding Hebb Gerhard Herzberg W.E. Hilles Harry Hinsley Ruth Hodgkinson Hou Ren-Zhi David Hubel Sir Andrew Huxley H.W. Janson Alexander P. Kazhdan Donald Keene J.B. Keller Har Gobind Khorana Igor Kipnis Arthur Kleinman Ivan Klima Colin Kraay Irving Lavin Sir Edmund R Leach Jean Marie LeClezio Paul T.K. Lin Martin Lipsel Lord Lloyd of Hamsread Norman MacKenzie Andrew Malcolm Ian McHarg Thomas McKeown C.B. McPherson Zhores A. Medvedev Richard L. Meier Ronald Melzack Carolyn Merchant Donald Mitchell Joseph Needham Noh Theatre Troupe Conor Cruise O'Brien Peasants Conference Max Perutz Sir George Porter Purcell Quartet Theodore Rall, Anders Rapp E.L.Revol Sir Rex Richards F.D. Richardson Brunilde Ridgway Michael Riffaterre Robert Rosenblum A. B. Rosenstein Theodore Roszak Leonard Schapiro Richard Schechner Schon, Dr. Donald A. Richard Evans Schultes Michael Scriven Edward Seidensticker Harold O. Seisel Donald W. Seldin Michael Sheehan, Dr. David Shulman Joan Simon Brian Simon Herbert A. Simon J. David Singer Peter Singer B.F. Skinner Brian J. Skinner Arnold C. Smith Rodolfo Sravenhagen F.C. Steward Lawrence Stone Hideo Tanaka Charles Taylor Arthur Terry Meron Theodor Lewis Thomas Einar Thorsrud Dean Alan M. Voorhees Immanuel Wallerstein Gungwu Wang G.T. Wasserburg Alan Watson Victor F.Weisskopf Eugene P. Wigner Sir Denys Wilkinson John Tuzo Wilson Joachim Wohlwill Lord Wolfenden Prof. A.G. Woodhead Lotfi Zadeh

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CECIL H. AND IDA GREEN VISITING PROFESSORS