Culture Shock

Students encounter a new level of diversity on campus. How do they learn from it?

By Heather Amos

World, meet the Okanagan

More students from around the world are experiencing Canadian living at UBC’s Okanagan campus.

By Paul Marck

New tool measures sustainability of sports events

UBC is pioneering a concept of the university as a living laboratory for sustainability, where academic and operational sectors collaborate to address pressing global sustainability challenges.

By Basil Waugh

Engineering students “travel” the world to embrace ambiguity

If you think a trek from the Bus Loop to class is arduous, try traveling halfway around the world. That’s what students in the Applied Science 263: Technology and Development course do every week—metaphorically speaking, that is.

By Lorraine Chan

The deliciousness investigators

Their homework: chocolates filled with honey caramel peanuts and galangal pecan praline. Learning doesn’t get more delicious than this.

By Lorraine Chan

Grey’s Anatomy: 
UBC edition

It’s a normal day on the wards for residents and MD students at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital (NRGH), until paramedics rush a patient with chest pains into the emergency room.

By Daniel Presnell

Learning out of the box

Classes, homework and exams don’t have to be the 
only part of your university experience. 
UBC students 
in Vancouver or Kelowna can also learn through work, while volunteering, on a different continent or by getting involved in a community project.

Sustainability learning by osmosis

If you are a student in Vancouver, check your class schedule. You may be among the first students to study in North America’s greenest building this fall.