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My Health My Community: Your Voice for a Healthier Community

My Health My Community: Your Voice for a Healthier Community Thu Jun 27, 7 – 8:30 PM UBC Robson Square A public forum on a new initiative that will give […]

Opening dialogue

Opening dialogue

A new speech pathology course focused on First Nations communities gets students talking about cultural differences.

Assistant Prof. Kim McGrail of the School of Population and Public Health, and Associate Prof. Sabrina Wong, in the School of Nursing.

Primary health care evaluation gets $2.4M boost

Research to improve performance measurement and reporting of community-based primary health care received a boost today when federal Minister of Health Leona Aglukkaq awarded funding to 12 innovation teams.

Author Jeannette Walls

Author Jeannette Walls Wed Jun 26, 7:30 – 9:30 PM Frederic Wood Theatre, 6354 Crescent Rd. The Vancouer Writers Fest and Simon & Schuster Canada present Jeannette Walls, best selling […]

Track and field athletes clinch spots to World Championship

Track and field athletes clinch spots to World Championship

T-Birds deliver impressive performances at the Canadian Track and Field Championship

The UBC Learning Exchange

The UBC Learning Exchange

Student David Wong’s video on how community members use this resource.

Managing Stormwater at UBC

Managing Stormwater at UBC Tue Jun 25, 4 – 7 PM Michael Smith Laboratories, 2185 East Mall Join planning staff to discuss the development of an Integrated Stormwater Management Plan […]

Cost is a barrier to medicines

Cost is a barrier to medicines

Prof. Michael Law discusses the negative consequences of drug costs for Canadians

Former T-bird now head coach of MLS’s Earthquakes

Former T-bird now head coach of MLS’s Earthquakes

Former UBC star soccer player Mark Watson is the new interim head coach of Major League Soccer’s San Jose Earthquakes

New Treasures: Artifacts of Chinese-Canadian life and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company exhibition

New Treasures: Artifacts of Chinese-Canadian life and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company exhibition May 23 – Jun 30 Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Inside Rare Books and Special Collections, 1961 […]

How science plans to helps us live to 150 – and soon

Testing your telomeres – tiny structures in chromosomes that store genetic information – may give you an indication of how long you have to live. Peter Lansdorp, a professor of […]

The graveyard shift

The graveyard shift

With the support of the Canadian Cancer Society, UBC researchers are examining whether improved sleep habits can reduce the risk of breast cancer in women who work night shifts, such anurses, emergency dispatchers and casino workers.

Where East Meets West

Where East Meets West Mar 23 – Jun 30, 9 – 5 PM Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall The exhibit showcases 19 pieces of early to mid 20th century Chinese […]