Peter Busby, principal at Busby Perkins + Will, and Ray Cole, UBC professor and former director of the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), have joined together to establish the Ray Cole and Busby Perkins + Will Entrance Scholarship in Architecture. The $1,000 scholarship will be offered to students entering the Masters of Architecture [...]
UBC has been honoured with several awards by The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in their District Awards Programs. CASE is an international association serving educational institutions and the advancement professionals who work on their behalf in alumni relations, communications, development, marketing and allied areas. The UBC 2010 winners and their winning [...]
Dr. Cornelia Laule from the UBC Dept. of Radiology is the recipient of the inaugural endMS Transitional Career Development Awards from the endMS Research and Training Network, a nationwide initiative of the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society of Canada. The awards provide successful post-doctoral and clinical fellows with $500,000 to fund the last two years of [...]
In 1963 Bob Hindmarch and the late Father David Bauer established Canada’s first national hockey team at the UBC Thunderbird Arena - a hockey venue for the 2010 Games.
During the month of January, UBC’s Vancouver campus is hosting events to promote awareness of the serious issue of sexual assault and safety on university campuses. Acclaimed gender violence educator Jackson Katz will be presenting an evening public talk entitled Tough Guys: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity, a multi-media presentation on how [...]
UBC President Stephen Toope has announced the creation of a new sustainability strategic management initiative that will begin to take shape immediately.
UBC real estate Prof. Tsur Somerville finds that cities that win Olympic bids experience neither boom nor bust in real estate prices.
See release at: http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2009-2013/2010PREM0015-000073.htm
Cities that win Olympic bids experience neither boom nor bust in their real estate prices, but gain construction jobs as they prepare for the Games, according to researchers at the Sauder School of Business at the UBC.
Weight-bearing exercises may help minimize cognitive decline and impaired mobility in seniors, according to a new study conducted by the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility at Vancouver Coastal Health and the University of British Columbia.
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