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On the Arctic

As the ice melts, new rules for shipping and fishing are needed, quickly.

Welcome Back BBQ invitation

The ninth annual Welcome Back BBQ signals the start of the new academic year and an opportunity to connect with more than 3,000 staff members over lunch. The event includes […]

UBC study looks at student retention in the Okanagan Valley

A study by graduate student Emma Talbott from UBC’s Okanagan campus is looking at how many graduates stay in the region and are able to find employment in their field after […]

UBC Pharmaceutical Sciences graduate students win 2011 NSERC scholarships

Laura Bandy and Mehrdad Bokharaei, graduate students in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, have recently been awarded scholarships from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Bandy won […]

Electrical engineering researchers win first prize for their paper

Fariborz Musavi, Wilson Eberle and William G. Dunford won the first prize paper award from the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Industrial Power Conversion Committee for their paper “A High-Performance Single-Phase […]

Five new faculty appointees welcomed at UBC Pharmaceutical Sciences

UBC Pharmaceutical Sciences announces five new faculty appointments for the upcoming academic year.  Learn about them at http://www.pharmacy.ubc.ca/aboutus/faculty-news#FiveNewFacAppts “We will be accepting an additional 72 professional degree students this September,” […]

UBC Bookstore’s new website unites ecommerce and information

UBC Bookstore’s new website rolls three websites into one and has a strong focus on eye-catching visuals and layout, simple navigation, one click to buy (where possible). Students can now […]

UBC unveils Dept. of Chemistry’s Shared Instrument Facility

UBC unveiled the Dept. of Chemistry’s new Shared Instrument Facility (SIF), a 262 square metre learning space that will provide undergraduate students with unprecedented access to instruments being used in […]

UBC This Week

Recent UBC Media Releases Aug. 18: entrepreneurship@UBC Seed Accelerator fund to help launch UBC startups Upcoming Event Highlights Aug. 19: British Columbia’s Burgess Shale: one hundred years of discoveries and current research […]

ICBIC conference held on UBC campus

The 2011 International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry (ICBIC) marks the “Jade Anniversary” of the initial international bioinorganic conference held on the UBC campus, in June 1976.  The conference is […]

UBC student wins silver in International Kodak film competition

UBC Bachelor of Fine Arts student Laura Good has won the silver award for Excellence in the Craft of Filmmaking in Canada for her third year film While I Breathe. The […]

UBC astronomy student to research on international telescope

Steve Mairs, a third-year physics and astronomy student at UBC’s Okanagan campus leaves for Hawaii early next month for two weeks study at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Mauna […]

Picturing Canada wins international award

School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) faculty member Judith Saltman and co-author Gail Edwards, Chair of the history department at Douglas College and adjunct faculty member at SLAIS, […]

Announcement of new Associate Dean, Practice Innovation

UBC Pharmaceutical Sciences announces the appointment of Dr. Peter J. Zed to the position of Associate Dean, Practice Innovation. Zed will be commencing his new role with the faculty this […]

UBC This Week

Recent UBC Media Releases Aug. 10: Atlanta runs world’s most fiscally efficient airport, Guangzhou boosts efficiency: UBC research Upcoming Event Highlights Aug. 12: Ramadan Fundraising Dinner for Rumana Manzur  Aug. […]