Alumni Video Profiles
Paper Trail Professional origami artist Joseph Wu, BSc’91, is rarely without a sheet of paper A Robot in Every Home Professor Elizabeth Croft, BASc’88, is programming robots to interpret physical cues...
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Learn more about the people, traditions and events that have shaped UBC’s journey to the present. I Prank, Therefore I Am The inside scoop on UBC’s most infamous student prank 100 Years of Fashion at...
View ArticleThe Last Word, with…
Well-known individuals with a UBC connection answer the same set of questions. The Last Word, with Kyle MacDonald Q: What are some of your UBC highlights? A: Having breakfast with former UBC President...
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UBC student lays groundwork for an anti-Black racism strategy in Vancouver
Vancouver aspires to be a safe city in which residents feel secure. It’s one of the goals of the Healthy City Strategy approved by city council in 2014. To that end, the city engaged Oludolapo Makinde,...
View ArticleHow a tiny island off Victoria became part of B.C.’s racist history
British Columbians who spent the spring locked down due to COVID-19 are now making up for lost time by getting outdoors and enjoying B.C.’s parks. This includes one B.C. park that was once used to...
View ArticleUBC research shows hearing persists at end of life
Hearing is widely thought to be the last sense to go in the dying process. Now UBC researchers have evidence that some people may still be able to hear while in an unresponsive state at the end of...
View ArticleChancellor Gordon Steps Down
At the end of June, Lindsay Gordon stepped down as UBC’s 18th chancellor after six years of exemplary service to the university. As the honorary head of UBC, he presided over all major ceremonies and...
View ArticleCanadians wary of new technologies that allow employers to spy on staff
Emerging surveillance technologies designed to help employers monitor the productivity of staff are largely viewed by the public as unreasonable and intrusive, according to new UBC research. Resistance...
View ArticleUBCO researcher looks at food security during COVID-19
Food insecurity has long been an issue in Canada As COVID-19 looms into the summer, international borders remain closed, a number of meatpacking and food processing plants are shut, and local farmers...
View ArticleUBCO researchers team up with industry partner to clear the air
New device aims to isolate and remove droplets and airborne viruses UBC Okanagan researchers are collaborating with Kelowna-based Care Health Meditech to develop a new device that isolates and...
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