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A new 300-level course, Communicating Science (SCIE 300), is being developed specifically for the Combined Major in Science (CMS) and focuses on giving students the skills to critically evaluate and communicate scientific issues.
Aug 5, 2010 - by by Ashley Turk
A specialization in breadth may be an oxymoron but UBC Science students will soon be able to do just that through the new Combined Major in Science (CMS).
The doors to UBC’s new Southern Medical Program (SMP) are opening. The 2011 MD Undergraduate Program admissions cycle opened June 1, and will admit the first class of SMP students in May 2011.
Aug 5, 2010 - by by Bud Mortenson
When she started her undergraduate degree four years ago at Nanjing Forestry University, she never thought she’d get the chance to work in a biology lab.
Aug 5, 2010 - by by Heather Amos
When it comes to climate change, UBC Prof. Stephen Sheppard knows that pictures speak much louder than words.
Aug 5, 2010 - by by Basil Waugh with files from Madelen Ortega
It’s one thing for a UBC student to sit in a lecture hall and take notes on food security. It’s quite another to accompany a 22-year-old Rwandan mother who is HIV positive, and her hungry baby, to the hospital.
Aug 5, 2010 - by by Lorraine Chan
This year, the Faculty of Education at UBC’s Okanagan campus introduces two new post-degree professional programs to help B.C. teachers acquire new skills for the classroom and keep up with changes in education in British Columbia.
As full-day school is implemented in kindergarten classes across B.C. this fall, there won’t be anything new in the already jam-packed curriculum, but there will be more time to learn through play and to build on children’s curiosity about the world around them.
At a time when relationships are built online and email correspondence is fast and informal, there’s one office on campus that insists on welcoming newcomers face-to-face.
Nancy Vertel remembers the exact moment she decided to specialize as a pediatric dentist. It was last year when her son, then nine months old, began wheezing and had difficulty breathing.
Aug 5, 2010 - by by Lorraine Chan with files from Terry Wintonyk
Since opening its doors in the summer of 2005, UBC’s Okanagan campus has grown from 3,500 students to well over 6,000, including more than 500 graduate students.
Young learners struggle to make the transition from high school to university life with its larger workload and reduced supervision. Catherine Rawn is teaching them the fundamentals of academic success.
Aug 5, 2010 - by by Basil Waugh
University of British Columbia researchers have observed one of the fastest evolutionary responses ever recorded in wild populations. In as little as three years, stickleback fish developed tolerance for water temperature 2.5 degrees Celsius lower than their ancestors.
Aug 4, 2010
Fourteen teams of UBC Engineering Physics students are set to compete at “RoboRacers,” the 10th Annual UBC Engineering Physics Robot Competition that pits students in head-to-head racing of their autonomous electric vehicles.
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