Think & Eat Green
Elena Orrego and Alejandro Rojas. In summer 2009 my old friend Alejandro Rojas contacted me about an exciting project. Based on a decade of work with UBC students to...
Work on the ugliest part!
Lee Gass doing what he has done for eight tenths of a century: telling a story to a friend, fellow behavioural ecologist and photographer David Shackleton, who took ...
Walking on Water
A Eureka Experience in my Development as a Teacher In 1968 I became Assistant Director of an Academic Year Institute for high school biology teachers from across th...
Looking Up
Looking Up Photos by Lee Gass This piece of granite leaned against my studio wall for a couple of years, up high where I could see it in all weather and al...
Creativity: The Case of Liz Lerman
I recently attended three events associated with the biennial Dance in Vancouver Conference, sponsored by the Scotiabank Dance Centre. Coming into art from a life...
Kids, Hummingbirds, and the RCMP
What I want to tell you here is not as much about humming- birds as about kids learning about hummingbirds, and learning about themselves and other things at...
Brief Reflections on Experiments
To a scientist like me, Experiments, a dance production that premiered at the Scotiabank Dance Centre at the end of November, was special. It is rare for a work of ...
Perfect Circles
Luis Sobrino in his kitchen at home making perfect paella. One great pleasure of working in UBC’s Science One and Integrated Sciences Programs is to obser...
Reflections on the notion of 3M Currency
Ron Stoltz, Jeanette Boman, Tim Pychyl, and Lee Gass from the 1999 cohort of 3M National Teaching Fellows a year later when we continued discussions. The nig...