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Our relationship with Korea needs a reset

Our relationship with Korea needs a reset

Our relationship with Korea needs a reset Canada’s relationship with Korea is at a crossroads, writes UBC President Stephen Toope in an op-ed co-authored by Len Edwards. Read more…   […]

Nov 29, 2013

Forests have role to play in resolving the carbon conundrum

Forests have role to play in resolving the carbon conundrum

Forests have role to play in resolving the carbon conundrum Carbon emissions need to be given a “fresh look,” says a UBC prof. Robert Falls. Read more…    

Nov 29, 2013

A BOLD effort to bring closure to disaster

A BOLD effort to bring closure to disaster UBC’s David Sweet and the Bureau of Legal Dentistry are teachingmilitary dentists from around the world how to identify victims of disasters.

Nov 29, 2013

Tandem End of Term Showcase Party

Tandem End of Term Showcase Party Fri Nov 29 2013, 6 PM – 8:30 PM Simon K.Y. Lee HKU-UBC House Tandem UBC celebrates all cultures and languages and aims to […]

Nov 29, 2013

Tandem End of Term Showcase Party

Nov 29, 2013

UBC Reports – November 28, 2013

UBC Reports – November 28, 2013

Nov 28, 2013

Calculating the risk of stroke

Calculating the risk of stroke

UBC’s Peter Loewen discusses a new tool that offers a possible breakthrough in prevention

Nov 28, 2013

UBC This Week 28-Nov-2013

  Recent UBC Media Releases Nov 27 EU fishing fleets reap profits while taxpayers foot the bill Nov 26 Disputed asthma therapy has safe record in B.C.: UBC-VCH study Nov […]

Nov 28, 2013

Killam prize symposium broadcast on CBC Radio’s IDEAS

What dilemmas keep five of Canada’s top research scholars up at night and what are they most optimistic about for the future? These and other questions will be answered on […]

Nov 28, 2013

Nominations callout for 2014 Alumni UBC Achievement Awards

Nominations for the 2014 Alumni UBC Achievement Awards are now open. Nominate a candidate who exemplifies the best of UBC—a graduate, faculty or friend of UBC who deserves to be […]

Nov 28, 2013

24/7 hours at the Learning Centre: December 1 – 18

The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s open study areas will be open 24 hours a day from Sunday, December 1 (open 6 a.m.) to Wednesday, December 18 (closed 1 a.m.) […]

Nov 28, 2013

Vancouver architect Bing Thom wins $50,000 Margolese National Design for Living Prize

Vancouver-based architect and urban designer Bing Thom is the winner of the second annual $50,000 Margolese National Design for Living Prize. The Margolese Prize is awarded by UBC’s School of […]

Nov 28, 2013

Open Scholar Award winners announced

Congratulations to the latest winners of the GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award, a collaboration between the Graduate Student Society and cIRcle, UBC’s digital repository. The Open Scholar Award highlights UBC […]

Nov 28, 2013

UBC Press book wins Best Book in Canadian Studies

UBC Press book Dispersed, But Not Destroyed: A History of the Seventeenth-Century Wendat People by Kathryn Magee Labelle has won The Canadian Studies Network – Réseau d’études canadiennes 2013 prize […]

Nov 28, 2013

Social news site Reddit and Forbes.com praise first-year UBC student

UBC’s Okanagan campus student Eric Huang has been praised on social news site Reddit and featured on the homepage of Forbes.com for helping a high-school student solve a computer programming […]

Nov 28, 2013

Graduating MSN student overcomes health challenge

In the summer of 2012, UBC nursing student Julie Cinel experienced a myocardial infarction (heart attack) while spending time with her family in Kamloops. She was taken by ambulance to […]

Nov 28, 2013

UBC researchers named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

UBC ecologists Steven Hallam, John Klironomos and Daniel Pauly have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) because of their “scientifically or socially distinguished […]

Nov 28, 2013

New Dean of Faculty and Vice-Provost, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

The Board of Governors has accepted the President’s recommendation to appoint Dr. Susan Porter as Dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and Vice-Provost, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, […]

Nov 28, 2013

Stay-at-home moms: Stop pretending you’re better. Signed, working moms

Stay-at-home moms: Stop pretending you’re better. Signed, working moms

Stay-at-home moms: Stop pretending you’re better. Signed, working moms UBC economist Marina Adshade pens an open letter to stay-at-home moms in a new op-ed in the Globe and Mail. Read […]

Nov 28, 2013

Obama’s drone dilemma

Obama’s drone dilemma

Is the U.S. overstepping boundaries with its controversial drone program? UBC’s Max Cameron offers his perspective.

Nov 28, 2013