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Class of 2014: Defining Canadian moments

What Canadian experiences have influenced the perspectives of students entering university this year?

Sep 10, 2010

Top tech trends for 2010: Open content and mobile computing

Open content and mobile computing are two technological trends which are about to have a very big influence in higher education.

Sep 10, 2010 - by By Michael Wong,
Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology

Not your parents' university

The lecture halls might look the same, but parents of incoming first-year students may not recognize Physics 101.

Sep 10, 2010

UBC football gets a facelift

I want the players to have pride in the team, enjoy what they’re doing and believe in what’s happening.

Sep 10, 2010 - by By Heather Amos

Raised on high-speed communication

Here is a generation that has mostly come to accept high-speed multimedia global communication as a given.

Sep 10, 2010 - by By Gisele Baxter

Vol. 56 | No. 9

Sep 10, 2010

UBC This Week

Recent UBC Media Releases Sep. 8: Young, male, testosterone-fuelled CEOs more likely to start or drop deals: UBC study Sep. 7: Gulf of Mexico oil spill threatens seahorse species with […]

Sep 9, 2010

UBC hosts Welcome Back Staff BBQ

The President’s Office and Human Resources Dept. will host the UBC Welcome Back Staff barbeque to welcome staff at the Vancouver campus to the new academic year. The event will […]

Sep 9, 2010

International volunteer opportunities for UBC staff

Every year, UBC sends six staff members abroad on the Leave for Change program, to volunteer overseas, sharing their knowledge and skills with others in an international setting.  Together with […]

Sep 9, 2010

UBC PhD student wins third in Gene Screen BC’s first short film competition

UBC PhD student Ben Paylor won third prize and $1,000 for his short film Epigenetic Landscapes in Gene Screen BC’s first film competition.  Genome BC and the BC Clinical Genomics […]

Sep 9, 2010

Community medicine resident wins The Economist’s $10,000 Cyber-Schools contest

Dr. Andrew Deonarine, a resident in the UBC School of Population and Public Health (SPPH), has won The Economist magazine and Innocentive’s 21st century Cyber-Schools Challenge for his plan for […]

Sep 9, 2010

UBC alumnus Ben Heppner promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada

UBC Music alumnus and leading operatic tenor Ben Heppner will be given the title of Companion of the Order of Canada.  “This is a promotion within the order,” said Marie-Pierre […]

Sep 9, 2010

UBC Sustainability Initiative invites community to Our Campus as a Living Lab symposium

UBC students, faculty, staff, and community members are invited to a symposium entitled Our Campus as a Living Lab, hosted by the UBC Sustainability Initiative.  Through lively presentations, panels and […]

Sep 9, 2010

Experts from UBC, UN and Bill and Belinda Gates Foundation gather for neglected diseases symposium

Neglected global disease experts from the United Nations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and UBC are gathering this weekend at UBC to find ways to eradicate diseases that affect […]

Sep 9, 2010

On full-day kindergarten

With only a half day of school, educators had a hard time fitting in everything that they know is important for kindergarten children’s learning

Sep 8, 2010 - by Marilyn Chapman

Young, male, testosterone-fuelled CEOs more likely to start or drop deals: UBC study

Too much testosterone can be a deal breaker, according to Sauder School of Business researchers at the University of British Columbia. Their paper, to be published in the INFORMS journal Management Science on September 10, shows that young CEOs with more of the steroidal hormone in their system are more likely to initiate, scrap or resist mergers and acquisitions.

Sep 8, 2010

Gulf of Mexico oil spill threatens seahorse species with extinction: researchers

A species of seahorse unique to the waters of the Gulf Coast could face extinction because of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, warns marine conservation organization Project Seahorse.

Sep 7, 2010

Orientation activities replace most first-day undergrad classes at UBC’s Vancouver campus

This advisory holds information about three orientation events happening in the next few days: International Student Orientation (Sept. 2-4): Residence Parent Orientation (Sept. 5); Imagine UBC (Sept. 7).

Sep 3, 2010

Oscar nominee joins UBC Graduate School of Journalism as Canwest Visiting Professor

An award-winning television journalist whose documentary about a Vancouver man dying of AIDS raised global awareness of the disease has joined UBC’s Graduate School of Journalism as the Canwest Visiting Professor for 2010-2011.

Sep 3, 2010

UBC This Week

Recent UBC Media Releases Sep. 1: Seafood stewardship questionable: UBC-Scripps experts Aug. 30: UBC researchers unveil “toolbox of MiniPromoters” for gene research and therapy Aug. 30: Sixth year of Okanagan […]

Sep 2, 2010