Posts Tagged ‘innovation’
Feb. 28, 2013 | Filed under: Business, Law and Society, Media Release, News Feed, University News | Tags: B.C., business, Campus and Community Planning, industry, innovation, jobs, KPMG, Metro Vancouver, rapid transit, regional planning, Stephen Toope, sustainability, Translink, transportation, UBC-Broadway Corridor
The City of Vancouver and UBC today released a KPMG study that shows the employment and population of the UBC/Broadway corridor will grow by 150,000 in the next 30 years and a rail-based rapid transit system is needed to meet the corridor’s population growth and significant economic potential.
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Apr. 10, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: AAAS, Asia-Pacific, business, innovation, learning, Science, Stephen Toope, studentlife, University of Singapore
The most dramatic new developments in science are taking place among nations in the Asia-Pacific and the phenomenon is changing the dynamic of science around the globe, according to three science and academic leaders from the U.S., Canada and Singapore.
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Aug. 19, 2011 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed, News Tip | Tags: AASHE, BDRP, business, campus sustainability, carbon-reduction targets, CIRS, environment, green universities, Greenest City Scholars, innovation, living laboratory, STARS, sustainability, USI
Pioneering clean energy projects, an aggressive carbon-reduction strategy and North America’s greenest building have helped UBC to garner Canada’s first gold rating in a new international program that assesses sustainability achievements in higher education.
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May. 11, 2011 | Filed under: Media Advisory, News Feed, News Tip | Tags: business, innovation
His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, will visit the University of British Columbia on Thursday, May 12, 2011.
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