Mary Nagata is one of 76 Japanese Canadian UBC students from 1942 who will be honoured this May.
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From opera to the Supreme Court
After graduating this May with her law degree, Emily MacKinnon will begin a prestigious clerkship with Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Five for five
Rayel Quiring and Kyla Richey are graduating from UBC as teammates, close friends and five-time volleyball champions.
Brewing ideas to transform campus
The vice president, finance for UBC’s Vancouver student government has concocted some innovative ideas that could leave our campus greener, and quench student thirst.
Chill out: graduating engineer helps invent therapeutic blanket
In addition to playing division one soccer and volunteering in West Africa, Annelies Tjebbes has created a new medical device with fellow students.
outtakes
Museum of Anthropology curator Karen Duffek talks about receiving two major Northwest Coast artworks.
Language, race and social change
Prof. Ryuko Kubota will present a case study on second language education and issues of race and multiculturalism at a Vancouver conference of 12,000 education researchers.
Missing nutrients
Judy McLean has helped form a partnership with the Rwandan government to deliver micronutrients to 150,000 children.
The plight of orphan diseases
Prof. Larry Lynd is leading a team that has just received $1.5 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to study funding policies for treating rare diseases.
Aiming high
The African Institute of Mathematical Sciences helped Felix Oghenekohwo pursue his love of numbers. A new partnership may soon see other African students pursue studies at UBC.
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