CFIS has produced (with the help of interns from the UBC Dept. of Film) over one hundred videos on our researchers, students, and visiting lecturers over the past four years, with the videos posted on our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/user/UBCinterdisciplinary. Selected videos include:

Students describing their research and other experiences at CFIS:

• Tom Harrison, a PhD candidtate in the Neuroscience graduate program, on his research looking at brain platicity and stroke victims
• The President and two VPs of the CFIS Graduate Students Association (GSA) describe their experience running the student-led organization
• Spencer Martin on researching immune system based cancer solutions in the interdisciplinary Oncology program (IOP)
• Larissa Pikor and Kelsie Thu, two Vanier Canada Graduate Scholars, on researching lung cancer in the Interdisciplinary Oncology program (IOP)
• Lucia Lee on the Masters of Asia Pacific Policy Studies program (MAAPPS)
• Justin Elavathil on the Masters of Asia Pacific Policy Studies program (MAAPPS)

• Blair Gage on researching diabetes in the Cell and Developmental Biology program
• Nancy Hofer on the Planning program and her move to a planning job
• Keith Mewis explains what's so cool about the new Genome Science and technology program
• Xin Hua describes her PhD research in the Women's and Gender Studies program
• Olena Morozova and Ryan Morin share about the bioinformatics program

In-depth interviews with CFIS faculty:

• Paul Kershaw on reducing vulnerability for the children of Generation X families (HELP)   
• Leila Harris on water access, politics and gender inequality (IRES/CWAGS)
• Bill Rees on the ecological footprint concept he developed and our current unsustainable growth ethos (SCARP)
• Erin Baines on providing real options to the war children of Northern Uganda (Liu)
• Tom Boyce on epigenetic research proving nature and nurture impact hsildhood development (HELP)
• Pitman Potter on bridging human rights and intercultural trade in an age of globalization (IAR)
• Daniel Pauly & Rashid Sumaila on a subsidized and non-sustainable global fishing industry (Fisheries)

Visiting lecturers, prominent speakers and thinkers:

• Mathieu Ricard on brain plasticity
• Ramachandra Guha on ten reasons why India must not become a superpower
• Robert Thurman on Buddhism as a "Civilization Matrix"
• Allen Repko on UBC as a leader in interdisciplinary studies
• Robert Cook-Deegan ponders personal genomics and ask, 'Do we need doctors anymore?'

For DVD copies of our videos, please contact john.corry@ubc.ca.