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Fourth-year electrical engineering student Mansi Tandon has started a new initiative at UBC. She is bringing Teach for India to UBC as its first ambassador here. Teach for India is […]
Sep 23, 2010
The Best Buy Canada’s Best in Class Fund Program will be awarding 10 Canadian schools $20,000 each in grants to upgrade their school’s tech equipment and receive in-the-classroom and ongoing […]
Grand Challenges Canada has announced the Canadian Rising Stars in Global Health requests for proposals. This program is a call to action for young Canadian scientists to make their contribution […]
UBC civil engineering professor and entrepreneur Donald S. Mavinic received the Ernest C. Manning Awards’ $25,000 Dave Mitchell Award of Distinction at a ceremony held in Ottawa last week. A […]
A Major Thematic Grant has been awarded by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at UBC that will fund research over three years to identify the immunological explanation for […]
The United States Senate has confirmed University of British Columbia professor and Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman for the position of Associate Director for Science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
China leads the world in tonnage of fish caught annually as well as the amount of fish consumed, according to new research conducted by University of British Columbia scientists.
Sep 22, 2010
The strengths of this exhibit are, unequivocally, in the educational potential
Sep 20, 2010 - by Judy Illes
UBC kicks off its first-ever “Living Library” where users can “check out and borrow” remarkable individuals to learn more about their lives and experiences
Sep 20, 2010
The world’s tiniest nuclear genome appears to have “snipped off the ends” of its chromosomes and evolved into a lean, mean, genome machine that infects human cells, according to research published today by University of British Columbia scientists.
Recent UBC Media Releases Sep. 16: B.C. researchers gain $3.1M for rare cancer research Terry Fox Foundation Sep. 14: Global Fisheries Research Finds Promise and Peril: UBC research Sep. 13: […]
Sep 16, 2010
Nanci Martin, Director of UBC Science’s Student Advising team, has been named 2010’s Coach of the Year by Special Olympics North America. Martin, a Vancouver native with more than 19 […]
As part of a continuing collaboration between Green College, UBC, and The Global Civic Society organization directed by former Mayor of Vancouver Sam Sullivan, the College offers UBC students a […]
The Institute of Asian Research’s Asia Pacific Memo is a new online publication on contemporary Asia. Current stories featured on the memo include: The Privatization of Security in Indonesia Violence […]
An event will be held to launch Legitimacy and Legality in International Law, a book written by Prof. Stephen J. Toope, University of British Columbia President and Vice Chancellor. Comments […]
September 2010 marks an important milestone for the Dental Hygiene Degree Program at UBC. For the first time this fall, all four years of the Entry-to-Practice (ETP) option are on […]
A study conducted by UBC Civil Engineering’s Prof. Tarek Sayed and Paul Deleur, ICBC transportation safety engineer, shows that ICBC’s investment in road improvements are helping keep B.C. roads safer. […]
Daniel Buchman, a doctoral student in the National Core for Neuroethics, has been named a Frederick Banting and Charles Best Graduate Scholar by the Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR). The […]
UBC’s Dept. of Public Affairs has received two Silver and three Awards of Excellence at the 40th Annual University and College Designers Association (UCDA) Design Competition. The judges evaluated nearly […]
Ten staff members are recognized for their contributions of excellence in categories such as enhancing the UBC experience, leadership and creativity, global citizenship, and customer service as part of the […]
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