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… […]
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…
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.
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 […]
UBC Reports – November 28, 2013
UBC Reports – November 28, 2013
Calculating the risk of stroke
UBC’s Peter Loewen discusses a new tool that offers a possible breakthrough in prevention
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Obama’s drone dilemma
Is the U.S. overstepping boundaries with its controversial drone program? UBC’s Max Cameron offers his perspective.