Teaching Learning and Research Excellence
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A new indoor growing pod at UBC is putting campus-grown produce on students’ plates through a partnership between researchers, industry and UBC Food Services.
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Study confirms permanent loss of Canada’s last Arctic epishelf lake
Loss of the millennia-old ecosystem shows that even the Arctic's projected last ice refuge is vulnerable to rapid change.
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$40M gift to UBC is the largest ever to a Canadian school of nursing
Historic $40M donation from UBC alumni Matthew and Natalie MacIsaac will strengthen nursing education, research and clinical learning to help prepare the next generation of nurses and health-care leaders.
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State-of-the-art Gateway Health building opens as integrated hub for student health, teaching and research
Located at the entrance to campus, UBC's newest building houses nursing, kinesiology, student health programs—and a team-based care teaching clinic opening later this year
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UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation
UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.
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UBC opens $45M Beaty Biodiversity Centre expansion
UBC unveils a $45M expansion to the Beaty Biodiversity Centre, boosting research and collaboration to tackle biodiversity loss with new spaces and technologies.
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AI salespeople aren’t better than humans… yet
A UBC Sauder study finds humans still outperform AI in online sales—at least for now.
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‘Loudest’ black hole ever detected, 10 years after Nobel-winning discovery
UBC researchers help detect the loudest black hole merger ever recorded, marking a decade since the first gravitational wave discovery and pushing the boundaries of astrophysics.
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Climate change is making rollercoaster harvests the new normal
Once-in-a-century crop failures could strike every decade by 2100, according to new research from UBC.
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UBC-developed app saves seniors a trip to the dentist
UBC researchers have developed ToothPortal, a secure teledentistry app that streamlines dental care for seniors in long-term care and enhances training for dentistry students.
