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startanevolution.ca gets a facelift

After months of feedback, an audit, customer analytics and user testing sessions, a new and improved startanevolution.ca website features improved user experience with simplified menus, popular searches, easier navigation and […]

Oct 24, 2013

Alumni Centre website and video released

The UBC Alumni Centre (approved by the Board of Governors in September) has launched a new video and website. The building is scheduled to open in mid-2015 and is prominently […]

Oct 24, 2013

Visiting professor comments on Alice Munro and Canadian literature in Japan

Upon the announcement of Alice Munro receiving the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, Yukiko Toda, a professor visiting UBC from Japan, was asked to comment on the significance of Munro […]

Oct 24, 2013

Visual Art prof wins imagineNATIVE Festival award

Visual Art professor and indigenous filmmaker Dana Claxton was awarded Best Experimental and $1,000 at the 14th annual imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival in Toronto.  In her film He […]

Oct 24, 2013

UBC This Week 24-Oct-2013

    Recent UBC Media Releases Oct 23 Better transit, more facilities: Locals enjoy 2010 Winter Games benefits Oct 22 UBC welcomes the resumption of BC support for the Therapeutics […]

Oct 24, 2013

How to spot a liar

How to spot a liar

Forensic psychologist Stephen Porter looks for truth in the nonverbal cues.

Oct 24, 2013

Universities must give up control

Universities must give up control

Universities must give up control UBC President Stephen Toope gives advice to other university leaders in a new Globe and Mail op-ed. Read more…

Oct 24, 2013

Community Roundtable Discussion

Community Roundtable Discussion Thu Oct 24 2013, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM Irving K. Barber Learning Centre In response to the incidents that took place during CUS FROSH activities, The […]

Oct 24, 2013

Community Roundtable Discussion

Oct 24, 2013

FIREtalk: Indigenizing the Academy

FIREtalk: Indigenizing the Academy Wed Oct 23 2013, 4:15 PM – 6:15 PM Chilcotin Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre How can the academy engage Aboriginal and Indigenous knowledge? What […]

Oct 23, 2013

FIREtalk: Indigenizing the Academy

Oct 23, 2013

Better transit, more facilities: Locals enjoy 2010 Winter Games benefits

Better transit, more facilities: Locals enjoy 2010 Winter Games benefits

Vancouver and Whistler residents enjoyed the biggest return after hosting the 2010 Winter Games but Canadians across the country also benefitted from a boost in pride and nationalism.

Oct 23, 2013

UBC welcomes the resumption of B.C. support for the Therapeutics Initiative

UBC welcomes the resumption of B.C. support for the Therapeutics Initiative

The University of British Columbia welcomes the decision by the B.C. Ministry of Health to resume its support for the Therapeutics Initiative, a project managed by members of the Faculty of Medicine.

Oct 22, 2013

Catching your breath

Catching your breath

UBC researchers head to Croatia to study how elite free-divers stay underwater for 10 minutes at a time.

Oct 22, 2013

UBC soccer player named a CIS Top Eight Academic All-Canadian

UBC soccer player named a CIS Top Eight Academic All-Canadian

CIS selected UBC soccer player Paul Clerc as a Top Eight Academic All-Canadian for the 2012-2013 season.

Oct 22, 2013

University gives students critical thinking, research skills

University gives students critical thinking, research skills

University leaders in B.C., including UBC president Stephen Toope, respond to a Vancouver Sun op-ed that argued students are graduating from school unequipped for the current job market.

Oct 22, 2013

Keep your head in the game

Keep your head in the game

Jane Roskams on what can be done to prevent head injuries in youth hockey.

Oct 22, 2013

What Happens On The Bus Doesn’t Stay On The Bus: The Reproduction of Coercion and Rape Culture

What Happens On The Bus Doesn’t Stay On The Bus: The Reproduction of Coercion and Rape Culture Tue Oct 22 2013, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Buchanan Building Block A […]

Oct 22, 2013

What Happens On The Bus Doesn’t Stay On The Bus: The Reproduction of Coercion and Rape Culture

Oct 22, 2013

We want children, but can’t afford daycare

We want children, but can’t afford daycare

We want children, but can’t afford daycare In today’s economy, raising children is a luxury, says UBC Prof. Marina Adshade. Read more …

Oct 21, 2013