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Associate Professor Sid Fels of Electrical and Computer Engineering is bringing attention to the emerging popularity of sensor-based instruments. Sensors are attached to musicians’ bodies to produce sounds according to […]
Dec 12, 2013
Forestry professor Cindy Prescott has been invited to become an honorary doctor in the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry at the University of Helsinki. The conferring of the degrees of […]
Assistant professor of anthropology Hugo De Burgos has been named one of Canada’s 10 Most Influential Hispanic Canadians. De Burgos came to Canada from El Salvador as a teenager and […]
Year of Teacher Education Event: Out in Schools (Anti-bullying & Anti-homophobia) Thu Dec 12 2013, 11 AM – 3 PM Neville Scarfe Building This engaging program, for pre-service teachers, will […]
Canadians are spending less on prescription drugs, according to the latest edition of the Canadian Rx Atlas, but UBC health economists predict the break will be short-lived.
Harish Krishnan of UBC’s Sauder School of Business discusses Canada Post’s decision to end door-to-door delivery in urban areas.
Dec 11, 2013
The Special Olympics Canada 2014 Summer Games, taking place at UBC this July, will give athletes and volunteers the chance to change perceptions.
Dec 11, 2013 - by Heather Amos
The power of ‘none of the above’ Why is voter turnout in Canada declining? UBC PhD candidate Paul Moscrop explores the issue in an Ottawa Citizen op-ed. Read more…
UBC English Professor Siân Echard talks all things Tolkien as The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is set to hit theatres Dec. 13.
Dec 10, 2013
Nobel Night Tue Dec 10 2013, 7 PM – 9 PM Engineering, Management and Education Building, Okanagan campus A panel of professors at UBC’s Okanagan campus will discuss five of […]
BC Athletics named Luc Bruchet the Senior Male Cross Country Runner of the Year.
Dec 9, 2013
UBC has finalized the framework that will form the basis for the assessment phase of the UBC Athletics sport review.
Dr. Dory Nason wins 2013 UBC Killam Teaching Prize Nason’s areas of research include contemporary Indigenous Feminisms and related Native women’s intellectual history and literature.
UBC’s Elizabeth Dunn on how to make the most of Christmas gift giving and how it really is better to give than receive.
Revolution and Erosion in China Mon Dec 9 2013, 3 PM – 5 PM C.K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asian Research This presentation draws on theoretical frameworks from […]
For the third consecutive year, UBC has published extensive information on the animals involved in research at the university, including numbers by major species groups and by type of research conducted.
Dec 6, 2013
UBC researchers are available to talk about issues related to rail transportation including safety, logistics, and engineering.
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