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The University of British Columbia Board of Governors has approved the appointment of Pascal Spothelfer as the new Vice President, Communications and Community Partnership. Spothelfer will begin his five-year term starting May 28, 2012.
Mar 15, 2012
Seventy years after Japanese Canadian UBC students were forcibly removed and exiled from the B.C. coast, UBC is examining its own role in this injustice with a symposium.
Recent UBC Media Releases Mar 15 UBC engineering students test 200-lb, 214-mpg car before international Shell competition Mar 14 UBC’s Vancouver senate vote paves way for early admissions offers […]
UBC’s Suzanne Simard, a professor in the Faculty of Forestry, will be featured in an upcoming episode of The Nature of Things: Smarty Plants: Uncovering the Secret World of Plant […]
Tickets for UBC’s Got Talent are now available at the UBC Bookstore’s main, Sauder and downtown branches for only $5 a ticket. The event highlights the best of singing, dancing, […]
UBC is holding a symposium to examine UBC’s role and response to the internment of 76 Japanese Canadian students during the Second World War, and how those issues resonate today. […]
The World Model United Nations will be hosting its closing ceremonies tonight at the Vancouver Convention Centre. Throughout the past week, around 2,000 international delegates have been collaborating with other […]
UBC Engineering has presented the 2012 McEwen Family Teacher Recognition Award to South Delta Secondary School mathematics teacher Brian Outerbridge. “Mr. Outerbridge transformed the mundane and average classroom into a […]
Computer science professor Karon MacLean‘s team (post-doc Vincent Levesque, now at Immersion Corp. and master’s student Louise Oram) won best paper award at the 2012 IEEE Haptics Symposium, held in […]
UBC engineers placed first in the Impromptu Debate and second in the Innovative Design categories at the 27th annual Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC), From Sea to Sky, held March 8-11 […]
UBC Doctor of Musical Arts student Bogdan Dulu is one of fifty concert pianists from six continents chosen to perform in the quarterfinal of the international audition round of the […]
Philip Ainslie, Canada Research Chair in Cerebrovascular Function in Health and Disease and associate professor in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences, has been named Researcher of the Year […]
UBC law professor James Stewart is the recipient of the 2011 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Aurora Prize award. This $25,000 prize recognizes an outstanding new researcher who […]
The winners of the 2011/12 UBC Student Development Awards have been announced. The Office of the Vice-President, Students presents these awards to recognize exceptional contributions or improvements to the student […]
The UBC Supermileage Team will be testing its ultra light and super fuel efficient vehicle, the “Argo,” prior to an international competition in Houston, Texas.
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