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UBC bootcamp helps aspiring politicians shape up for government

A new UBC program will give aspiring politicians the training to thrive as future elected officials and handle the challenges of government life.

Apr 29, 2013

UBC This Week 25-Apr-2013

  Recent UBC Media Releases Apr. 19 Vancouver campus deploys new $5.1M ‘smart grid’ energy storage system Upcoming Event Highlights Apr. 25 Fifty years in Serengeti: The story behind the […]

Apr 25, 2013

UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2013

The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery presents As Seen Here, an exhibition of work by the 2013 graduates of UBC’s two-year Master of Fine Arts program. The artists represented […]

Apr 25, 2013

UBC CILS hosts Reflecting on Experiential Learning: What Lies Beyond the Language Classroom?

UBC Centre for Intercultural Language Studies (CILS) is hosting its annual research symposium “Reflecting on Experiential Learning: What Lies Beyond the Language Classroom?” Teachers, researchers, and graduate students from Canada […]

Apr 25, 2013

Pop Rocks on campus

An equal collaboration between AFJD Studio (Amber Frid-Jimenez and Joe Dahmen) and Matthew Soules Architecture, Pop Rocks is a temporary installation that covers a block of the UBC Vancouver campus […]

Apr 25, 2013

Engineering graduate wins CJChE Best Graduate Student Paper

UBC Engineering graduate Mohammed Alaqquad (CHBE ‘11) has been awarded the Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering Best Paper Award for the manuscript “The Permeability of Wood-Chip Beds: The Effect of […]

Apr 25, 2013

UBC forestry student wins Green Dream internship

UBC forestry student Dana Aljanab earned a summer internship with Weyerhaeuser in Grande Prairie, Alberta by posting a video application online. The Forest Products Association of Canada held a contest […]

Apr 25, 2013

Civil Engineering grad student wins Cambridge fellowship

UBC Civil Engineering PhD candidate Anirban Guha received the 2013 David Crighton Fellowship from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. The award will […]

Apr 25, 2013

UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences to unveil new Pharmaceutical Sciences Sequencing Centre

UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences will officially unveil its new Pharmaceutical Sciences Sequencing Centre (PSSC) on April 26, 2013. The PSSC is a dedicated facility for sequencing human genomes and […]

Apr 25, 2013

New partnership supports smart grid research

A new partnership between UBC, Alpha Technologies Ltd., and Corvus Energy has brought a new prototype smart grid to the campus. Research and data generated by the project will help […]

Apr 25, 2013

UBC School of Nursing signs MOU with Chinese University of Hong Kong

UBC’s School of Nursing has signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Nethersole School of Nursing to establish The CUHK-UBC International Centre on Nursing Leadership (CUHK-UBC […]

Apr 25, 2013

UBC professors nominated for YMCA 2013 Women of Distinction Award

Two UBC professors are among the 2013 nominees for the YMCA 2013 Women of Distinction Award in the Education, Training and Development category. The awards honour women whose outstanding achievements […]

Apr 25, 2013

Top photographer and much-loved poet to receive honorary degrees

Top photographer and much-loved poet to receive honorary degrees

Recipients of honorary degrees at UBC’s Vancouver campus were announced in March…

Apr 25, 2013

Vancouver campus deploys new $5.1M ‘smart grid’ energy storage system

UBC President Stephen Toope today unveiled a new energy storage system, or prototype smart grid, created in partnership with Alpha Technologies Ltd. and Corvus Energy.

Apr 19, 2013

UBC This Week 18-Apr-2013

  Recent UBC Media Releases Apr. 18 $25M grant brings African students to UBC Apr. 16 Vroum vroum – Test of metal for student engineered hovercrafts Apr. 16 Anxious about […]

Apr 18, 2013

Café Scientifique – Allergies: What can be done?

UBC professors Drs. Stuart Turvey, Edmond Chan and Amin Kanani will address the latest advance in allergy research and care in Café Scientifique – Allergies: What can be done? In […]

Apr 18, 2013

Engineering research featured on cover of Physica Status Solidi (a)

Assistant Professors Alireza Nojeh and Ken Takahata from the MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) lab in electrical engineering had their journal paper recently published as the front cover publication in the Physica […]

Apr 18, 2013

Secondary teacher recognized by UBC Engineering’s McEwen Award

UBC Engineering recognized Susan Hunter-Jivung, physics teacher at Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary School in Surrey, with the 2013 McEwen Family Teacher Recognition Award. Created to highlight the contributions high-school teachers make […]

Apr 18, 2013

Engineering Alumni Awards 2013

The UBC Engineering Alumni Awards took place on April 10, 2013 at the Four Seasons Hotel to recognize some of this year’s engineering excellence. The 2013 Engineering Alumni Award winners […]

Apr 18, 2013

UBC Library and Pacific BookWorld News Society book prize awarded to B.C. author

B.C. author Derek Hayes is the recipient of the inaugural Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia, a new award from UBC Library and the Pacific BookWorld […]

Apr 18, 2013