Breeonne Baxter
Helping Rwanda rebuild
Engineering doctoral student Chadia Uwamahoro isn’t afraid to offer her native Rwanda as an example of what’s possible through truth and reconciliation. The healing process is ongoing in the central African nation of nearly 14 million people following the 1994 genocide against 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and their supporters by the governing Hutu majority. Uwamahoro was […]
2023 call for proposals to the ALT-2040 Fund Program
The 2023 call for proposals to the Aspire-2040 Learning Transformations (ALT-2040) Fund is now open. The 2023 ALT-2040 Fund supports course and program innovation, student experience enhancement and educational resource development at UBC Okanagan. Selection of funded projects is guided by the transformative learning strategies of Shaping UBC’s Next Century and UBC Okanagan teaching and […]
Thirty-eight Research Excellence Clusters to receive GCRC support in 2023/24
A total of 38 emerging and established Research Excellence Clusters led by researchers on the Vancouver campus will be supported in 2023/24. This total includes 23 awards made through the 2023/24 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters Competition (GCRC) and 15 clusters entering the second year of their current award. Research Excellence Clusters are interdisciplinary networks […]
UBC recognized as one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers in 2023
UBC is recognized as one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers in 2023. This designation recognizes employers across Canada with exceptional workplace diversity and inclusiveness programs. View the announcement on the UBC Focus on People website to see why UBC was selected for this award.
UBC Library acquires digital database documenting the Black freedom struggle in 20th Century America
UBC faculty, staff and students can now access the NAACP Papers, a digitized collection of primary source materials documenting the major campaigns of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) from 1909 to 1972. This collection is made available through the ProQuest History Vault. UBC Law Library purchased permanent access to select […]
Collective action on climate change: reflections on COP27 and beyond
Please visit https://apsc.ubc.ca/news/2023/collective-action-climate-change-reflections-cop27-and-beyond to read the full story.
Finding new life for plastic waste
Please visit https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2023/02/21/finding-new-life-for-plastic-waste/ to read the story.
Charting a new course for MS treatment
Please visit https://www.med.ubc.ca/news/charting-a-new-course-for-ms-treatment/ to read the story.
Six new projects receive Campus as a Living Lab funding to advance sustainability and wellbeing
The Campus as a Living Lab Fund Competition is helping UBC researchers test new ideas to support climate action, resilient systems, sustainable places and communities, and health and wellbeing. The 2022 CLL Fund Competition received applications from faculty and staff in over 23 different departments at UBC Vancouver – and featured a broad selection of […]
Five years and counting: UBC Sauder’s streak of success in the CFA Institute Research Challenge
Sally Jiao and her teammates figured out a magic formula that propelled them all the way to the global finals of the CFA Institute Research Challenge last year. It was the first time ever that a team from the UBC Sauder School of Business had advanced so far in the annual global equity research competition. […]