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Anastasiia Lapatina looks at camera while drinking coffee with men in camouflage gear in the background

Pandemic and Putin turn UBC student into war correspondent

UBC undergraduate student and journalist Anastasiia Lapatina has spent the last four months covering Russia’s invasion of her homeland, Ukraine, while studying political science full-time.

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  • Canada needs Indigenous-led fire stewardship, new research finds

    Canada needs Indigenous-led fire stewardship, new research finds

    Apr 26, 2022

  • Carbon removal research at a legacy mine site in western US. Credit: Bethany Ladd

    UBC spin-off companies win $2 million in competition for carbon removal technology funded by the Musk Foundation

    Apr 22, 2022

  • Health research overlooks important differences between sexes

    Health research overlooks important differences between sexes

    Apr 21, 2022

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    New toolkit helps tackle climate anxiety

    Apr 20, 2022

  • These levers and leverage points are a checklist of the interconnected components necessary for building a more sustainable and just future. Adapted from the 2019 IPBES Global Assessment. Credit: CoSphere

    We need to change our systems to ensure a sustainable world

    Mar 10, 2022

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    Health care leader Tania Dick joins UBC as its first Indigenous nursing lead

    Feb 24, 2022

  • This electron microscopic (EM) image depicted a monkeypox virion, obtained from a clinical sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Credit: CDC/Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regnery

    UBC experts on monkeypox

    May 20, 2022

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    UBC experts on International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

    May 16, 2022

  • UBC experts on Asian Heritage Month

    UBC experts on Asian Heritage Month

    May 10, 2022

  • Festival-goers of all ages will get a chance to meet with world-class researchers and innovators, participate in hands-on experiments and see amazing scientific demonstrations. Credit: Sarah Race

    Get hands-on with science, robots, ice cream and air cannons at UBC Science Rendezvous

    May 4, 2022

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    UBC experts on access to abortion

    May 3, 2022

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    UBC experts on new B.C. anti-racism legislation

    May 2, 2022

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The way forward for UBC: A Global Engagement Strategy

UBC president and vice-chancellor, Santa J. Ono, talks about UBC and the new global engagement strategy.

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Here in British Columbia, we have spent the summer running from cruel wildfires

Dr. Mary Stockdale, an adjunct professor in UBCO's department of community, culture and global studies, discussed B.C.'s wildfires and called on the Canadian government to act now to tackle the existential threat.

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