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Can meat and sustainability go together? Livestock production is resource-intensive and a big contributor to climate change, says UBC’s Airlie Trescowthick in an op-ed. Read more…
Aug 18, 2014
New UBC research concludes that taking antibiotics early in life can have a long-term negative impact on your immune system.
A presidential candidate in Brazil just died. Now what? The death of politician Eduardo Campos has shocked Brazilians of all political stripes, writes UBC’s Déborah Barros Leal Farias in the […]
Aug 15, 2014
Opening ceremony of Jump Start, UBC’s orientation program for 1,500 new international and Aboriginal students
2014 Vancouver International Wrestling Festival Sat Aug 16 2014, 9 AM – 4 PM Robson Square The 2nd annual Vancouver International Wrestling Festival (VIWF) will celebrate the sport of wrestling […]
Changes to British Columbia’s laws against driving while impaired have reduced fatal crashes as well as ambulance calls and hospital admissions resulting from motor vehicle crashes, a new UBC study finds.
Better addiction training on horizon Addiction to alcohol and drugs are immensely costly, but new funding aims to make B.C. a leader in treatment, says UBC’s Evan Wood in a Vancouver […]
Aug 14, 2014
The Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office (SCCO) has launched a new and improved Copyright at UBC website. Highlights include: • A new information architecture • New guides and resources targeted […]
Computer graphics researchers from the UBC Department of Computer Science presented seven papers at SIGGRAPH 2014. SIGGRAPH is the premier conference in the field of computer graphics and is being […]
UBC alumnus Tagg Jefferson (BASc ’12 IGEN) was named the Next36 Valedictorian and received the Outstanding Venture award at the Next36 Venture Day on August 12. Jefferson was honoured for […]
UBC professor of economics W. Craig Riddell has been selected to be a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at the University of California in Santa Barbara for the 2014-15 academic year. […]
A UBC expert offers tips and tools to help first-year students get a solid grip on their finances.
Recent UBC Media Releases Aug 13 Vancouver campus safety enhanced, further improvements planned Aug 13 Powerful math creates 3-D shapes from simple sketches Aug 12 A university parent’s back […]
Music on the Mall: Amplexus Thu Aug 14 2014, 12 PM – 1 PM Main Mall & Agricultural Road Grab your lunch and some friends, head over to Main Mall […]
Renowned author Wade Davis has attracted hundreds of students to his first course, Introduction to Anthropology.
Aug 13, 2014 - by Nick Lewis
Visit our special Back To School 2014 page as UBC gears up to for the start of the winter session.
Aug 13, 2014
Head coach of the UBC Thunderbirds women’s soccer team and former player Andrea Neil was inducted into the Vancouver Whitecaps Ring of Honour on Sunday.
UBC is working actively to improve safety on its Vancouver Point Grey campus as students head back to school for the Winter Term that starts September 2.
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