A place of mind

Why is UBC a place of mind?

How does a decent provincial university of 20 years ago now find itself positioned among the elite of the world’s greatest universities?

	How is an initiative started by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman transforming the teaching of science on a global scale?
	How does a medical discovery that solves a problem in the West, become a solution to a much larger health challenge affecting up to 200 million people around the world?
	How do you start with pollution and turn it into a useful product, creating an innovative green technology and a thriving new business in the process?

UBC possesses an inspiring openness to ideas, perspectives and ways of exploration that make possible breakthrough thought and discovery. This big-sky thinking has allowed professors and students to carve their own path, try new approaches, and ask the tough questions.

One need look no further than remarkable UBC discoveries in the life sciences, leading programs in the Arts, our innovation in technology transfer, leadership in sustainability and community service learning and major new initiatives in teaching and learning.

Behind each of these is a story about an institution open to trying something different.

UBC is a place of mind.