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UBC building wins prestigious Wallpaper* Magazine design award

Design and lifestyle magazine Wallpaper* has bestowed its 2013 ‘Best Lab’ award to the University of British Columbia’s new Pharmaceutical Sciences Building.

Jan 28, 2013

Cloud U – UBC ventures boldly into the virtual university

Three leaders talk about the brave new world awaiting UBC students in ten years.

Dec 18, 2012 - by A Q and A with Pierre Ouillet, Vice President, Finance; Wes Pue, Provost, UBC’s Okanagan campus; Hugh Brock, Associate Provost, Academic Innovation, UBC’s Vancouver campus

Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

Increased access may equal a complete rethink of higher education.

Dec 18, 2012 - by Rosie Redfield, Professor, Dept. of Zoology and instructor of one of UBC’s first MOOCs, Useful Genetics.

The ethical robot

From playrooms to bedrooms to battlefields, robots are part of modern life. And they are about to create some novel dilemmas for humans.

Dec 18, 2012 - by AJung Moon, PhD student, CARIS Lab

Medical maggots: back to the future with limb-saving larvae

Larvae can clean dead tissue from wounds, and may be a more effective treatment than drugs.

Dec 18, 2012 - by Chris Harvey-Clark, Director, Animal Care Services

Cultural barriers crunched by numbers

Melania Alvarez addresses stereotypes to help Aboriginal kids achieve in math.

Dec 5, 2012 - by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Inclusive U

How UBC is working to provide access and positive experiences for students with developmental disabilities.

Dec 5, 2012 - by Heather Amos

Creating an oasis in the Downtown Eastside

UBC graduate Kim Villagante worked with the residents of the Oasis to create a community-building mural that would spruce up their inner city alley

Dec 5, 2012 - by Lorraine Chan

Examiners tend to grade relative to work already seen: UBC research

How well you fare on a subjective evaluation – whether it’s of you treating a patient, auditioning for a play or even interviewing for a job – may depend largely on the person who was examined just before you. And the worse the person before you did, the better for you.

Dec 4, 2012

UBC celebrates Royal Society inductees

The Royal Society of Canada recognizes scholarly, research and artistic excellence across the country.

Nov 22, 2012

Largest class of Aboriginal doctoral students graduate from UBC Faculty of Education

Eleven Aboriginal doctoral students will graduate from the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Education this year – the largest number to graduate from an education faculty in any Canadian university in one year.

Nov 20, 2012

UBC’s commitment to science education underlined by $75M facility

The University of British Columbia today officially opens the new Earth Sciences Building, a state-of-the-art facility that will provide modern learning spaces for more than 7,000 students each year and leading-edge laboratories for hundreds of researchers.

Nov 16, 2012

UBC leads alliance to improve science education with Sloan grant

The University of British Columbia is partnering with seven top North American universities to study how to speed up the adoption of improved teaching techniques in science classrooms.

Nov 15, 2012

UBC gains two new Canada Excellence Research Chairs

The University of British Columbia will be home to two more Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC), valued at $20-million over seven years, in the areas of quantum materials and devices and digital media research and innovation.

Nov 8, 2012

A university library for the 21st century

Academic libraries worldwide are facing seismic shifts in how users access and create knowledge. University Librarian Ingrid Parent talks about re-thinking the future.

Nov 1, 2012 - by Lorraine Chan and Linda Ong

Good food. Good grades.

Place Vanier residence chef Steve Golob knows that healthy food keeps students alert in class.

Nov 1, 2012 - by Heather Amos

Vij’s Kitchen spices up UBC

Vancouver’s celebrity chef Vikram Vij has made possible an extensive culinary lab makeover.

Nov 1, 2012 - by Lorraine Chan and Jennifer Honeybourn

UBC deans take one for the team: First to get flu shots from students

Students from UBC medical, nursing and pharmaceutical sciences programs will give flu shots to university leaders, students, staff and faculty at a media event.

Oct 29, 2012

Park and charge: UBC researchers invent safe wireless vehicle charging technology

University of British Columbia researchers have invented a safe, efficient technology to wirelessly charge electric vehicles using “remote magnetic gears” – and successfully tested it on campus service vehicles.

Oct 26, 2012