Chill out: graduating engineer helps invent therapeutic blanket
In addition to playing division one soccer and volunteering in West Africa, Annelies Tjebbes has created a new medical device with fellow students.
Brewing ideas to transform campus
The vice president, finance for UBC’s Vancouver student government has concocted some innovative ideas that could leave our campus greener, and quench student thirst.
Five for five
Rayel Quiring and Kyla Richey are graduating from UBC as teammates, close friends and five-time volleyball champions.
From opera to the Supreme Court
After graduating this May with her law degree, Emily MacKinnon will begin a prestigious clerkship with Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
An alumna, 70 years later
Mary Nagata is one of 76 Japanese Canadian UBC students from 1942 who will be honoured this May.
Best not lie to this Psychology PhD graduate
Leanne ten Brinke will receive the first PhD in Psychology at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Her research focused on the facial expressions of genuine and deceptive “pleaders.”
Life story fosters vision to serve disadvantaged
Erica Kiemele will receive a Master of Science degree in Chemistry and is bound for Harvard Medical School. She is finding a way to turn her passions into a life-long career.
Deathbed promises launched master’s research
Lorriane Topf had already spent 19 years as a nurse when a profound experience about a broken promise convinced her she needed to go back to school.
‘Juno’ actress finding happiness in research
After studying acting in London and working in Hollywood North, something clicked in a psychology class at UBC.
Road to degree a personal journey
Philip Chen is proud of having launched the first LGBT business mentorship program at the Sauder School of Business.
New dentist parks his longboard, but not for good
It’s only been a few years since Scott Martyna came to his first UBC Dentisry classes on a skateboard. Now he has been accepted into a prestigious oral surgery program at Washington Hospital Center.
Grad sprouts vision of wholesome food
Anyone who’s a regular at Sprouts would recognize Lizzy Foulkes.
UBC honours staff excellence
Four staff members will be recognized during graduation ceremonies for extraordinary service to UBC
Outtakes
Afton Cayford, associate professor emeritus in Mathematics, is the 2011 recipient of the Slonecker Award for Outstanding Volunteer Contribution.