Breeonne Baxter
UBC Connects: Engaging communities through innovative lecture series
The UBC Connects speaker series has a very simple goal: connecting UBC with the communities in which we study, research, and work. By bringing fascinating speakers from across North America to meet with UBC audiences, UBC Connects has been able to change the way the university engages with the community. Read a message from UBC […]
Greening our world through automation
Research2Reality recently profiled the work of Dr. Curtis Berlinguette, professor of chemistry at UBC’s Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute. Dr. Berlinguette is working on the world’s first self-driving robot to help make new materials for clean technologies. Dr. Berlinguette co-leads Project Ada, short for Autonomous Discovery Accelerator for Materials Innovation, a group with the goal […]
The flow of water: From the mountains to the campus
Water is a crucial resource at UBC, for basic human needs and to support research and operations. The story of water at UBC’s Vancouver campus is complex, and rests in the hands of dedicated teams from across the VP Finance & Operations portfolio, including Energy & Water Services, Building Operations, Safety & Risk Services, and […]
Aspire-2040 Learning Transformations Fund 2020 projects announced
The recipients of the 2020 Aspire-2040 Learning Transformations Fund (ALT-2040) have been announced. The ALT-2040 Fund is intended to encourage and accelerate curricular transformations and new program development at UBC’s Okanagan campus as envisioned in Outlook 2040, while leveraging the strategies and advancing the goals of UBC’s Strategic Plan. Category 1: Program Enhancement (up to $25,000) […]
Announcing the Undergraduate Program Evaluation and Renewal year-two funded projects
The Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic is pleased to announce that current Undergraduate Programs Evaluation and Renewal (UPER) projects will receive renewed support for their second year of funding. In alignment with Strategy 12: Program Redesign of UBC’s Strategic Plan, Shaping UBC’s Next Century, UPER projects are focused on reframing undergraduate academic program design […]
UBC public art for the 21st century
UBC’s outdoor spaces have been reinvigorated by a program bringing public art to the campus. Together, these artworks express a wonderful variety of stories and attitudes about the history of UBC and Vancouver, as part of an ever-evolving narrative about art, space and place, and our own sense of self. Visit the Campus + Community […]
Latest innovative sustainability research studies how climate change will impact seafood security
In a study recently published in Global Change Biology, Dr. Muhammed Oyinlola, postdoctoral fellow at UBC’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, and Dr. William Cheung, Canada Research Chair in Ocean Sustainability under Global Change at UBC’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, looked at how climate change could impact 85 species of fish and […]
UBC recognized as one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers in 2020
UBC is one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers in 2020. This designation recognizes employers across Canada that have exceptional workplace diversity and inclusiveness programs. Some of the reasons that UBC was selected as one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers this year: The Residential School History and Dialogue Centre provides former students with access to the […]
UBC among Top 25 universities globally in 13 subjects; Top 50 in 36 subject areas: QS Rankings
UBC has been ranked among the top universities in the world in the 2020 QS World University Rankings by Subject, including: 24th in Arts & Humanities 32nd in Engineering & Technology 28th in Life Sciences & Medicine 25th in Natural Sciences 21st in Social Sciences & Management Please visit the President’s Blog to learn more […]
UBC student discovers 17 new planets, including potentially habitable, Earth-sized world
UBC Physics and Astronomy Ph.D. candidate Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable, Earth-sized world, by combing through data gathered by NASA’s Kepler mission. Over its original four-year mission, the Kepler satellite looked for planets, especially those that lie in the “Habitable Zones” of their stars, where liquid water could exist […]