Students help design UBC learning
From designing a student learning space at the Faculty of Land and Food Systems to engineering an undergraduate curriculum at the Department of Civil Engineering, three UBC students are reaching a new high as active participants in their own higher learning.
UBC, this is your first-year class
This year UBC welcomes more than 7,400 incoming first-year students to its campuses in Vancouver and Kelowna. Our incoming class is academically strong and more geographically diverse than ever before.
What has shaped the Class of 2013?
Canadians born in 1991 were shaped by documentaries, Avril Lavigne and arguments over health care. They were less influenced than previous generations by Saturday Night Live and debates about national unity. See story by Gisele Baxter.
Innovative course option: Med students take on tough health issues
Many students dream of the day when they can close their books and trade the classroom for the streets, gaining insights only gleaned from experience.
Lab learning goes under the microscope
When delegates to the Canadian Association of Physicists’ annual conference gathered recently to hear a presentation by UBC Prof. Doug Bonn, they didn’t come to hear about his latest techniques in developing high-temperature superconductors. They wanted his insights into a rarely studied field: undergraduate physics lab education.
Stars are aligned for “magnificent” change in education
Two of the world’s foremost experts in institutional change and education improvement came together in Vancouver recently in support of UBC’s Lasting Education, Achieved and Demonstrated (LEAD) Initiative. “magnificent”
Why UBC is a place of mind
How does a decent provincial university of 20 years ago now find itself positioned among the elite of the world’s 35 greatest universities?
Computer Science 110: Breaking stereotypes and new ground
What do computers, program design, and social interaction have in common?
Learning from the Games
As the 2010 Winter Games approach, UBC is encouraging people to ask provocative questions this fall about what Olympics and Paralympics mean to our society.
Medicine wheel shapes Aboriginal Access Studies
Two years ago, Chris Alexander didn’t have the prerequisites to begin his UBC education. That all changed after he enrolled in the Aboriginal Access Studies initiative at UBC Okanagan. Today, the 23-year-old has completed a variety of university-level courses and plans to pursue a degree in management.
New MBA House inspired by Harvard
For the Robert H. Lee Graduate School at UBC’s Sauder School of Business, the new MBA House represents a key part of the school’s rebuilding effort, and the culmination of a major effort to provide graduate business students with an exceptional learning environment.
UBC launches one-of-a-kind commuter hostel
Life can be tough for commuter students. Hours can be lost during cramped cross-city bus rides and sitting in traffic jams, and getting to campus for an early-morning class means some students leave home before 6 a.m.
Women were first to earn UBC grad degrees: First 100 theses project
Have a hankering to peruse UBC’s first-ever thesis in Arts and Science, "A study of the estimation of iron and the separation of manganese from iron by phenyl-nitroso-hydroxylamine ammonium (cupferron)", by Ruth Vivian Fulton, 1919?
Uncommon learning opportunities
As a new school year gets underway, the Chapman Learning Commons (CLC) is introducing a raft of initiatives to serve its users better. The CLC, located on level three of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, brings together technology and learning support for students, faculty, staff and community members.
TEDX Talks
Give UBC students a challenge, and they’ll more than exceed your expectations. That’s what happened at Terry talks 2008, a day-long event where students took centre stage to share their academic knowledge, personal experience and passion to bring about positive change both locally and globally.
Pharmacy residency puts students in community
If you thought the role of pharmacists was solely to prepare prescriptions, and dispense drugs to patients, well, think again.
