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Langmann photo albums available for online viewing

UBC Library’s Digitization Centre has digitized two albums from the Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs. The collection, donated by Uno and Dianne Langmann and Uno Langmann Limited, has […]

Jul 31, 2014

UBC prof becomes new Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering

Xiaotao (Tony) Bi, a professor in the Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, was one of 49 new Fellows inducted into the Canadian Academy of Engineering on June 26. Bi […]

Jul 31, 2014

Dean and professor of Land and Food Systems elected Fellow of the Entomological Society of America

Murray B. Isman, a professor of entomology and toxicology and dean of the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, has been elected as one of ten new Fellows of the […]

Jul 31, 2014

UBC This Week 31-Jul-2014

  Recent UBC Media Releases Jul 31 UBC experts for comment on 100th anniversary of First World War Jul 30 Study reveals how African dictators stay in power Jul 30 […]

Jul 31, 2014

UBC experts for comment on 100th anniversary of First World War

UBC experts for comment on 100th anniversary of First World War

UBC experts are available to comment on the Great War’s impact from a variety of perspectives: political, historical and cultural.

Jul 31, 2014

Court ruling means Tsilhqot’in lands never belonged to Crown

Court ruling means Tsilhqot’in lands never belonged to Crown

Court ruling means Tsilhqot’in lands never belonged to Crown The Supreme Court decision to affirm the aboriginal title of B.C.’s Tsilhqot’in is a “game-changer,” says UBC’s Millicent Nickason in The […]

Jul 30, 2014

Music on the Mall

Music on the Mall Wed Jul 30 2014, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Main Mall and Agricultural Road Prepare to be wowed by the incredible talents of a string quartet […]

Jul 30, 2014

Music on the Mall

Jul 30, 2014

Study reveals how African dictators stay in power

Study reveals how African dictators stay in power

Dictators in postcolonial sub-Saharan Africa cling to power by keeping senior ministers in check and manipulating ethnic divisions, according to research from UBC’s Vancouver School of Economics.

Jul 30, 2014

Astronomers measure weight of galaxies, expansion of universe

Astronomers measure weight of galaxies, expansion of universe

UBC astronomers have collaborated with international researchers to calculate the precise mass of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, dispelling the notion that the two galaxies have similar masses.

Jul 29, 2014

T-Birds deliver at the Commonwealth Games

T-Birds deliver at the Commonwealth Games

UBC Thunderbird athletes representing Canada in swimming, rugby, rowing and field hockey continue to impress at the 20th Commonwealth Games.

Jul 29, 2014

Bamboo sprouts up in the concrete jungle

Bamboo sprouts up in the concrete jungle

UBC researchers are part of an international team that wants to see city skylines filled with buildings made of bamboo.

Jul 29, 2014 - by Heather Amos

Vancouver Early Music Festival: A Moment in Time: Weiss meets Bach

Vancouver Early Music Festival: A Moment in Time: Weiss meets Bach Tue Jul 29 2014, 8 PM – 10 PM Music Building This shared recital explores the blurring of the […]

Jul 29, 2014

Vancouver Early Music Festival: A Moment in Time: Weiss meets Bach

Jul 29, 2014

UBC develops test to ensure effectiveness of new hep C drug

UBC develops test to ensure effectiveness of new hep C drug

Associate Professor Richard Harrigan leads effort to screen for drug-resistant form of the disease.

Jul 29, 2014

We should be citizens, first and foremost

We should be citizens, first and foremost

We should be citizens, first and foremost In a Victoria Times-Colonist op-ed, UBC’s David Moscrop says that referring to individuals as taxpayers, customers or clients instead of citizens is part […]

Jul 28, 2014

Film screening of “Golden Sea” and Q&A

Film screening of “Golden Sea” and Q&A Mon Jul 28 2014, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM Regent College Join us for this public screening of Makoto Fujimura’s documentary “Golden Sea” […]

Jul 28, 2014

Film screening of “Golden Sea” and Q&A

Jul 28, 2014

Goodbye Gayborhood: study finds gay neighbourhoods ‘straightening’

Goodbye Gayborhood: study finds gay neighbourhoods ‘straightening’

New research finds that traditionally gay neighbourhoods are becoming increasingly “straight” places, and could be at risk of losing their distinct cultural identity.

Jul 28, 2014

UBC releases former president’s expenses, commits to ongoing transparency

The University of British Columbia is making public the breakdown of expenses incurred during the 2013/14 fiscal year by then president and vice chancellor Stephen Toope.

Jul 25, 2014