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Recent UBC Media Releases May 13: UBC opens Beaty Biodiversity Centre, unveils Canada’s largest blue whale skeleton exhibit May 11: UBC and City of Vancouver partner to reach Greenest City […]

May 13, 2010

UBC hosts All Science Challenge

All Science Challenge, a day-long science competition held at UBC this week, pits more than 200 Grade 6 and 7 students from across the Greater Vancouver Regional District against one […]

May 13, 2010

Canadian children’s literature exhibit at UBC Library

UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC) division will display an exhibit in conjunction with the release of a new book on children’s literature. The exhibition Picturing Canada: Canadian […]

May 13, 2010

New exhibitions at Learning Centre Gallery

Two new exhibitions are on display at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Beyond the Words features portraits of writers by the late Carl Kohler (1919-2006), a Neo-Modernist/Abstract Swedish artist. […]

May 13, 2010

UBC Faculty of Forestry hosts international symposium on forestry education

From May 17-21, forestry education leaders from China, Canada and around the world will be at UBC to discuss the issues, opportunities and problems facing post-secondary forestry education. The conference, […]

May 13, 2010

Graduate students awarded Aboriginal Graduate Fellowship, national essay competition prize

Two students in the School of Population and Public Health’s Master of Public Health program were awarded this week for their academic achievements.    UBC Faculty of Graduate Studies awarded […]

May 13, 2010

Four profs recognized by engineering students for teaching excellence

Four engineering professors each received teaching honours from students in the UBC School of Engineering at the Okanagan campus. Mechanical engineering instructor Yang Cao received the Pioneer’s Award for Excellence […]

May 13, 2010

UBC Science honours outstanding faculty, staff and students

Faculty, staff and students were honoured with the 2009/2010 Faculty of Science Achievement Awards in recognition of their exceptional service contributions.  This year’s recipients include four representatives from the Dept. […]

May 13, 2010

UBC professor awarded cancer prevention funding for workplace health promotion study

UBC Prof. Carolyn Gotay, School of Population and Public Health and Canadian Cancer Society Chair in Cancer Primary Prevention, will receive $583,111 over three years from the Canadian Cancer Society […]

May 13, 2010

Nominate an outstanding staff member this May

Nominations are open for the 2010 UBC Vancouver President’s Staff Awards and the 2010 UBC Okanagan Staff Awards of Excellence.  As part of UBC’s Focus on People framework, these awards […]

May 13, 2010

UBC opens Beaty Biodiversity Centre, unveils Canada’s largest blue whale skeleton exhibit

The University of British Columbia today officially opened the Beaty Biodiversity Centre, new home to some of the world’s top biodiversity researchers and Canada’s largest blue whale skeleton exhibit.

May 13, 2010