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UBC Bookstore Customer Appreciation Day

Dec 9, 2014

Blake Nill named UBC Football head coach

Blake Nill named UBC Football head coach

The UBC Dept. of Athletics and Recreation is pleased to announce Blake Nill as the 18th head coach of the UBC Thunderbirds football program.

Dec 9, 2014

Red Man Laughing’s Ryan McMahon: Laughter as Medicine

Dec 9, 2014

UBC team finds a glitch in hummingbird hovering

UBC team finds a glitch in hummingbird hovering

Two UBC researchers have found a glitch in the hummingbird’s hovering system, something the tiny birds are powerless to control.

Dec 9, 2014

Van Beilen sets personal best at World Short Course Swimming Championships

Van Beilen sets personal best at World Short Course Swimming Championships

Tera Van Beilen set her personal best at the 12th FINA World Short Course Swimming Championships in Doha, Qatar.

Dec 9, 2014

Grading report cards

Grading report cards

UBC education professor Sandra Mathison says parents should ask plenty of questions about a student’s report card, and cautions against rewarding good grades.

Dec 8, 2014

Technological transformation

Learn more about the creation of UBC’s Northern Medical Program.

Dec 8, 2014

No one wins the breakup on social media

Cool is in style, and especially for Millennials, a generation steeped in public breakups and public post-breakup damage control. UBC Asian studies professor Edward Slingerland recommends not trying too hard. Or […]

Dec 8, 2014

Candlelight Vigil

Dec 5, 2014

UBC Reports – December 4

UBC Reports – December 4

Dec 4, 2014

UBC This Week 4-Dec-2014

  Recent UBC Media Releases Dec 4 New federal funding to enhance Canadian post-secondary research Dec 3 Universal prescription drug coverage more cost-effective, improves seniors’ health outcomes: study Dec 3 […]

Dec 4, 2014

SALA announces $50,000 Margolese National Design for Living Prize

The School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture has announced Vikram Bhatt as the winner of the 2014 Margolese National Design for Living Prize. Bhatt, a professor at McGill University’s School of […]

Dec 4, 2014

UBC pharmacy clinic wins national award for innovation

The Pharmacists Clinic at UBC was honoured with the Pharmacy Innovation award at this year’s Commitment to Care and Service Awards, the national awards program hosted by Pharmacy Practice+ and […]

Dec 4, 2014

Celebrating 10 years of training more doctors in B.C.

2014 marks the ten year anniversary of the launch of UBC’s distributed MD Undergraduate Program. To mark this occasion, the Faculty of Medicine has launched a website — bcmd10.med.ubc.ca — […]

Dec 4, 2014

UBC alum wins Governor-General’s Award in nonfiction

UBC alumnus Michael John Harris (B.A English, Honours ‘02) has won a Governor-General’s Award in nonfiction for his book The End of Absence: Reclaiming what we have lost in a […]

Dec 4, 2014

Economics student wins Rhodes Scholarship

Logan Graham, an honours student at UBC’s Vancouver School of Economics, has won a Rhodes Scholarship. Graham is in his final year of his B.A. in Economics and will continue […]

Dec 4, 2014

Vancouver School of Economics prof wins Killam teaching prize

Vancouver School of Economics’ associate professor Vadim Marmer is the winner of a 2013-2014 UBC Killam Teaching Prize. The prestigious and competitive prize recognizes all aspects of outstanding teaching at both […]

Dec 4, 2014

Computer science prof elected Fellow of the AAAI

Computer science professor Holger Hoos has been elected as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Hoos was elected for his contributions to the field […]

Dec 4, 2014

Can Facebook make you a better driver?

An international team of engineers that includes electrical and computer engineering professor Victor Leung and his research team have created a SAfeDJ app that combines the diagnostic system in a […]

Dec 4, 2014

Associate Vice-President, Equity and Inclusion appointed

The Board of Governors has accepted the President’s recommendation to appoint Sara-Jane Finlay as the new Associate Vice-President, Equity and Inclusion for a five-year term commencing March 16, 2015. Finlay […]

Dec 4, 2014