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The Bacchae 2.1

The Bacchae 2.1 Jan 22 – Feb 7, 2015 Expect the unexpected from American playwright Charles L. Mee’s subversive and richly poetic creation The Bacchae 2.1.

SCARP Annual Symposium: Contours and Coastlines: [De] Constructing the Pacific Northwest.

Registration is now open for the School of Community and Regional Planning’s (SCARP) seventh annual symposium: Contours and Coastlines: [De] Constructing the Pacific Northwest. Professionals, academics and students are invited […]

CTLT offers Teaching in a Blended Learning Environment course

The Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) is offering a new program for instructors who are teaching in the classroom and are considering moving to a blended environment. Teaching […]

Clinical social worker featured in Parkinson’s Disease Foundation newsletter

Elaine Book, a clinical social worker at the Pacific Parkinson’s Research Centre at UBC, is featured in the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation’s winter 2015 issue of its quarterly newsletter, News & Review.  […]

An interview with SALA alumnus: How to build a career in urban development

Robert Freedman, a former director of Urban Design for the City of Toronto and graduate of UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, is heading a consulting business advising public […]

Second MAGIC I3 challenge welcomes new applicants

The UBC Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC) welcomes applicants to compete in the second MAGIC I3 (idea, innovation and inaugurate) challenge. New applicants can register and submit a two-page […]

ECE researchers win two best paper awards

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) researchers have won two best paper awards for their research on cloud gaming. In their paper titled “Ad-hoc Cloudlet Based Cooperative Cloud Gaming,” FangYuan Chi, […]

Computer science professor helps launch 100-year study on Artificial Intelligence

Computer Science professor Alan Mackworth is one of seven leading academic experts to help launch the 100-Year Study on Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University.  The seven experts will form the […]

In memoriam: Verna Huffman Splane, honorary professor of nursing

A public health nurse and policy advocate, Verna Huffman Splane was a pioneer in nursing through her extensive international health and development work with the World Health Organization and the […]

Executive Director, Finance and Operations appointed

The Faculty of Medicine welcomes Michael Shakespeare as Executive Director, Finance and Operations, effective April 1, 2015.  Shakespeare will join the dean’s executive team and will cultivate and foster strategic […]

UBC members named to the Order of Canada

UBC members were among six British Columbians named to the Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian honour.  Julio Montaner, director of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, was […]

UBC This Week 15-Jan-2015

  Recent UBC Media Releases Jan 14 Taking the pain out of waiting Jan 14 2015: Year of the Planet Jan 12 Dictator’s henchmen on trial: UBC expert at historic […]

Is the world looking for US global leadership? A view from Washington

Urban climate risks in a changing world

How can we manage urban climate risk better in a changing world? Thu Jan 15 2015, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Geography Room 229, 1984 West Mall Urban meteorologist Jennifer […]