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The week the bombs fell
August 7, 2015

The week the bombs fell

Seventy years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by atomic bombs, the nightmarish scale of destruction and radiation left behind continue to haunt us.

LATEST NEWS

 

Hot, dry weather spells trouble for sockeye salmon

As UBC biologist Tony Farrell explains, this year’s lack of snow melt coupled with record-high water temperatures mean sockeye salmon heading to the Fraser River to spawn might not make it at all.
   

How ecodesign can help create kinder, gentler cities

More than half of the world’s population is now living in cities. According to UBC’s Distinguished Practice Professor of Planning, that number is only set to increase.

World’s largest management conference descends on Vancouver

The childhood origins of abusive bosses and how office workers mark their territory are just two of the topics that will be discussed at the world’s largest management conference, beginning Friday.

OPINIONS

 

Shifting the paradigm towards integrated, people-centred health systems

As health system researchers, how do we contribute to a paradigm shift? Angeli Rawat recently presented her research at the International AIDS Society conference in Vancouver.

ATHLETICS

 

Thunderbirds off to a great start

The Summer Nationals are underway in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, and some Thunderbirds are making noise on day one.

EVENTS

 

Theatre and Film's 2015-16 Season

Female playwrights and protagonists take centre stage in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall adapted by UBC Professor Jacqueline Firkins, Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl, and The Arabian Nights by Mary Zimmerman.

VIDEO

 

Cherub Lum and the long hike

Scaling a mountain with a Thunderbirds point guard.
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