New pedestrian pathways, water features, courtyards, gardens and lighting are part of a 15-year, $45 million plan to improve outdoor public spaces
Aug 23, 2012 - by Basil Waugh
Nearly 1,300 new international and Aboriginal students benefit from two-weeks of orientation and a year of personalized support.
UBC alumnus Donovan Tildesley, Canada’s flagbearer in Beijing, will compete in his fourth Paralympics this month.
Aug 15, 2012
Bronze medals, swim-offs, meeting royalty: the 2012 Summer Olympics featured much excitement for past and current UBC students.
Aug 14, 2012
UBC student Martha McCabe finished fifth in the women’s 200m breaststroke at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Aug 2, 2012
Former UBC Thunderbirds swimmer Brent Hayden has won the bronze medal in 100m freestyle swimming in London.
Aug 1, 2012
Event: UBC Buiild-bots competition Date/time: Thursday, August 2nd, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Location: Hennings Bldg., Rm. 200, 6224 Agricultural Road For a map, visit: http://www.maps.ubc.ca/?652 Visuals: Student-designed automated robots […]
On a day in which Canada has already won three bronze medals, former UBC Thunderbirds swimmer Brent Hayden has advanced to the final of the men’s 100m freestyle.
Jul 31, 2012
The University of British Columbia Department of Athletics and Recreation announces the opening of the $2.5 million Gerald McGavin Rugby Pavilion in October 2012.
Martha McCabe has always had an affinity for water and sporting competition. Originally from Toronto, she and her siblings would hold the “McCabe Olympics” at their summer cottage in Lakefield, Ontario.
Jul 26, 2012
Days after a reporting project by University of British Columbia journalism students ran in The New York Times, Brazilian authorities began arresting suspects in the murder of Guarani tribal chief Nisio Gomes.
Jul 20, 2012
With the recent release of Cabin in the Woods, The Avengers and the upcoming Much Ado about Nothing, many entertainment industry watchers are calling this the summer of Joss Whedon – the critically acclaimed writer, director and producer best known for creating the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Jul 5, 2012
A Global Academics Internship is helping student Gabriela de la Paz, from Mexico, gain confidence
Jul 4, 2012 - by Gudrun Jonsdottir
Hawaiin Candace Galla is studying how indigenous languages can be revitalized through dance.
Jul 4, 2012 - by Heather Amos
Student athletes have won 64 Olympic medals and 55 Paralympic medals
Jul 4, 2012 - by Heather Amos and Kyle Farquharson
If this is what it means to throw like a girl, the line of boys waiting to take lessons from javelin thrower Liz Gleadle will stretch for miles.
Jul 4, 2012 - by Ashley Castellan
Toby Ng will apply lessons learned in a UBC statistics class when he competes in mixed doubles.
Jul 4, 2012 - by Basil Waugh
There are 17 confirmed student athletes with their eyes on the prize in London.
Jul 4, 2012
UBC is sending eight members of its swim team to the London 2012 Games, including a 19-year-old from Oakville Ontario who wasn’t supposed to make the team.
PhD student Roberta Dyck, from UBC’s Okanagan campus, investigates what all those chemicals could be doing to swimmers.
Jul 4, 2012 - by Jody Jacob
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