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UBC Visual Art holds art auction fundraiser

The UBC 2013 BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating class will host an art and musical event to promote and raise funds for this year’s graduating exhibition “Is it Happening?” which opens […]

Jan 24, 2013

2013 SCARP Student Symposium: Beyond Downtown and Outside the Box

The fifth annual School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) Student Symposium will focus on “Beyond Downtown and Outside the Box” – a current topic in community and regional planning […]

Jan 24, 2013

UNESCO Declaration focuses on digital assets

The protection of digital assets is the focus of the UNESCO / UBC Vancouver Declaration on Digitization and Preservation, released by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). […]

Jan 24, 2013

Data Privacy Day

Held around the world every year, Data Privacy Day empowers people to protect their privacy and the privacy of others. On January 28, 2013, members of the UBC community are […]

Jan 24, 2013

Former UBC astrophysics PhD earns U.S. rising star award

UBC alumnus Jason Kalirai has been awarded the 2013 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, which recognizes outstanding achievement in observational astronomy by an astronomer under the age of 36. Kalirai received […]

Jan 24, 2013

Computer Science professors awarded over 5 million processor hours by Compute Canada

Professors of Computer Science Holger Hoos and Kevin Leyton-Brown and their empirical algorithmics group have been awarded 5,260,000 processor hours, valued at $315,569, in the nationwide 2013 Compute Canada resource […]

Jan 24, 2013

UBC-developed test for predicting lung attacks moves toward the market

The PROOF Centre, a group of UBC scientists focused on developing biomarkers for chronic organ disease, has granted a U.S. company exclusive rights to commercialize gene expression blood tests to […]

Jan 24, 2013

Exploring the barriers to midwifery care

A group co-led by Saraswathi Vedam, an associate professor in UBC Division of Midwifery, has received $160,000 from the Vancouver Foundation to identify the factors that prevent or facilitate women’s […]

Jan 24, 2013

Just for one day: UBC's popular community courses on campus begin winter session

One Day @ UBC offers community members a chance to experience university in a single day. Participants learn about a subject that piques their interest from UBC’s star faculty and instructors.

Jan 24, 2013

Just for one day: UBC’s popular community courses on campus begin winter session

One Day @ UBC offers community members a chance to experience university in a single day. Participants learn about a subject that piques their interest from UBC’s star faculty and instructors.

Jan 24, 2013

Construction begins on Canada’s largest radio telescope

$11M UBC-led CHIME project to attempt largest survey of observable universe

Construction is now under way in Penticton, B.C. on Canada’s largest radio telescope – and the first research telescope to be built in the country in more than 30 years.

Jan 24, 2013

UBC Engineering hosts two competitions this week showcasing students’ design ingenuity

From all-terrain, remotely operated vehicles to concrete toboggans, UBC engineering students are competing this week in two competitions for marks and bragging rights. Media are invited to cover both events.

Jan 23, 2013

Master switch discovery could provide road map for treatment of arthritis and other inflammatory diseases

Scientists trying to create drugs to treat chronic inflammation in diseases like arthritis now have a new culprit known as MMP2. New University of British Columbia research shows that this enzyme works as a master switch to activate inflammatory diseases.

Jan 22, 2013

UBC research: Forget about fair – it’s better when bosses pick favourites

A new study from the University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business shows that bosses should pick favourites if they want top performing teams.

Jan 21, 2013

UBC campaign hits $1 billion

The University of British Columbia’s start an evolution campaign crossed the $1 billion mark and is now two-thirds of the way toward its fundraising and alumni engagement targets – to raise $1.5 billion and to involve 50,000 alumni annually in the life of the university by 2015.

Jan 18, 2013

UBC This Week 17-Jan-2013

  Recent UBC Media Releases Jan. 15 UBC receives $22.7M for research from the Canada Foundation for Innovation Jan. 15 UBC and Fraunhofer Society enter $4.9 million clean energy partnership […]

Jan 17, 2013

Goethe Readings: Dodson Music Series at the Learning Centre

The 2012/13 Dodson Music Series presents Goethe Readings: Music inspired by the writer, artist and politician. This free event is open to the public, and will be held in the […]

Jan 17, 2013

Marlee Kline Lecture in Social Justice

“The Métis of the Northwest: Finding Justice for an Invisible People” lecture honours the memory of Marlee Gayle Kline, a member of UBC Faculty of Law from 1989. Her work […]

Jan 17, 2013

UBC hosts 2013 Great Northern Toboggan Race

UBC will be hosting the 2013 Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race (GNCTR), an annual engineering competition held each winter at a Canadian university. This year, 23 teams of over 400 […]

Jan 17, 2013

UBC Engineering prof receives IEEE Outstanding Service Gold Medal

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Canada has recognized Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Vijay Bhargava‘s sustained and distinguished service by awarding him the 2012 IEEE Canada W.S. […]

Jan 17, 2013