Detecting insects goes high-tech on UBC campus

Detecting insects goes high-tech on UBC campus

A new Campus as a Living Laboratory project is enabling UBC researchers to monitor insects in real time, on a scale never done before. “This project promises to help us understand insect biodiversity, which we know is both crucial to ecosystems, and affected by human activities,” says Dr. Juli Carrillo, Assistant Professor in the Faculty […]

Large TLEF Transformation funding: Special call for hybrid and multi-access course redesign projects

A message from Simon Bates, Associate Provost, Teaching and Learning Faculty members at UBC Vancouver are invited to submit letters of intent (LOI) for Large Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) Transformation projects. The 2023/24 Large TLEF funding round is a special call to academic units interested in hybrid and multi-access course redesign projects. The […]

UBC Press achieves global accessibility certification

UBC Press achieves global accessibility certification

In the 50 years since UBC Press first launched, the publishing landscape has changed immensely. Print books have been joined by audiobooks and e-books as the expected offerings from a modern publisher. E-book technology itself is rapidly evolving. Earlier generations of e-books posed significant barriers to accessibility, limiting how a reader could navigate through the […]

UBC opens geological field station in South Okanagan

UBC opens geological field station in South Okanagan

Students, researchers and community groups now have access to an expanded and enriched earth sciences learning environment in the South Okanagan with the opening of the UBC-Teck Geological Field Station in Oliver, B.C. Funded by $2.4-million in contributions from UBC Science alumni and friends, and Teck Resources Limited, the facilities replace aging structures that have […]

C.D. Howe Institute ranks UBC 1st in climate change & endowment activities and governance

C.D. Howe Institute ranks UBC 1st in climate change & endowment activities and governance

Please visit https://sustain.ubc.ca/stories/cd-howe-institute-ranks-ubc-first-both-climate-change-endowment-activities-and-their to read the full story

2022 Aspire-2040 Learning Transformations Fund Awards

The Aspire-2040 Learning Transformations (ALT-2040) Fund supports program development, curriculum transformations, student experience enhancement and educational resource development that accelerates the curricular vision in UBC’s strategic planning documents Outlook 2040 and Shaping UBC’s Next Century. Open Educational Resources (OER) focus stream (awards up to $10,000) These projects develop or adapt or incorporate open educational practices […]