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Sep 6, 2019

Making students feel at home before classes even begin

Making students feel at home before classes even begin

Every September, UBC Vancouver celebrates the start of the academic year with one of the most unique and comprehensive university orientation programs in North America.

Sep 6, 2019

UBC experts on B.C. PharmaCare announcement

UBC experts on B.C. PharmaCare announcement

B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix will be making an announcement on B.C.’s PharmaCare program this afternoon.

Sep 5, 2019

UBC In The News

Sep 5, 2019

12 tips for a healthy school year

12 tips for a healthy school year

For many students, university marks the first step away from the comforts of home, and a whole new world of responsibilities that can divert attention away from healthy habits.

Sep 5, 2019

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UBC experts on U.K. political upheaval

Political uncertainty continues in the U.K., with the British prime minister’s own MPs voting against him in a bid to prevent a no-deal Brexit.

Sep 4, 2019

UBC In The News

Sep 4, 2019

Chinook salmon found dead at British Columbia spawning grounds. Credit: Kristi Miller-Saunders, Fisheries and Oceans Canada

New viruses discovered in endangered wild Pacific salmon populations

Three new viruses—including one from a group of viruses never before shown to infect fish—have been discovered in endangered Chinook and sockeye salmon populations.

Sep 4, 2019

Welcoming diversity at UBC

Welcoming diversity at UBC

When Darcy Bandeen arrived at UBC last year, the arts undergraduate student was filled with the usual first-year anxieties: “Will I meet anyone? Will I spend the next year alone in my dorm room crying myself to sleep, or am I going to have a phenomenal year? You don’t know how it’s going to go.”

Sep 4, 2019

UBC doubles student fundraising target to help realize more student potential

UBC doubles student fundraising target to help realize more student potential

UBC has today announced the extension of its Blue & Gold Campaign for Students, doubling the target to $200-million by 2022.

Sep 3, 2019

UBC In The News

Sep 3, 2019

UBC’s financial support infrastructure designed to alleviate stress of paying for school

UBC’s financial support infrastructure designed to alleviate stress of paying for school

As every university graduate knows, earning a degree is expensive—and stressful. Recent government figures show the average undergraduate student in British Columbia who takes out a loan for their degree will complete their studies with an estimated $28,000 in combined provincial and federal student loan debt.

Sep 3, 2019

UBC welcomes 7,000 new students; celebrates largest fund ever raised for students

UBC welcomes 7,000 new students; celebrates largest fund ever raised for students

On Tuesday, September 3, UBC will be welcoming 7,000 new students to the university. UBC will also be celebrating the fact it has hit its Blue & Gold Campaign for Students $100-million goal almost a year early.

Sep 3, 2019

Jessica Meir training a bar-headed goose to fly alongside her on a motor scooter. Credit: Milsom Lab/UBC

Slowed metabolism helps geese fly high

A few years before NASA astronaut Jessica Meir began learning to fly a spacecraft for her upcoming trip to the International Space Station, she was in flight-training of a different kind: teaching bar-headed geese how to fly in a wind tunnel at the University of British Columbia.

Sep 3, 2019