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Astronaut touches down on campus

Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau helped kick off a month-long educational program for 52 of Canada’s top high school math and science students this month at UBC. Students in the Shad […]

Blake to head Faculty Association for two-year term

Zoology Prof. Robert Blake has been elected president of UBC’s Faculty Association for a two-year term. He has served as the association’s vice-president for the past two years. Mary Russell, […]

Emergency drill offers opportunity to test responses

A graduate student and a research technician are working in a campus lab on a quiet summer morning. Suddenly, there’s an explosion that knocks the research technician to the floor, […]

Strangway to receive Order of Canada

UBC President David Strangway has been named to the Order of Canada. Strangway was one of 24 people appointed officers of the order, the second of its three ranks. As […]

Conference aims at reducing toll of major disasters

Nine years ago a tornado swept through Edmonton killing 26 people, half of whom died in a mobile home park in the northeast end of the city. According to PhD […]

New Deans Appointed for UBC Faculties of Arts, Graduate Studies

The Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Graduate Studies have appointed new deans for concurrent six-year terms. English Prof. Shirley Neuman, from the University of Alberta, and UBC Prof. […]

Top High School Students Join Astronaut Marc Garneau at UBC

Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau will help kick off a month-long educational program for 52 of Canada’s top high school math and science students at UBC. Students of the Shad Valley […]