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Dorothy Eleanor Hooson, Dip(Pub Hlth Nurs)’44
January 1, 1921 – January 19, 2015 Eleanor ”Elle” Hooson (née Goodwin) died peacefully at Hollyburn House, West Vancouver, on January 19, 2015, at the age of 94. Eleanor was predeceased in 2001 by her...
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Holger Olof Victorson Nygard, BA’44
Dr. Holger Nygard, professor emeritus of English at Duke University, died at the age of 94 on May 20, 2015, at his home by the Eno River in Durham, North Carolina. Born in Ostrobothnia of Finnish...
View ArticleJohn Goodlad, BA’45, MA’46
John Goodlad died on November 29, 2014, at his home in Seattle, aged 94. Dr. Goodlad was an influential educational researcher and teacher whose work over six decades had a major impact on schools and...
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President’s Message: An inauspicious start, but a grand first century
Ours were modest beginnings – which is never how it was supposed to be. In the decades before the University of British Columbia accepted its first students, BC’s intellectual and political leaders had...
View ArticleMessage from alumni UBC
This issue of Trek is being released on the 100th anniversary of UBC’s very first class of students and the official opening of the spectacular new Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre! In one short century UBC...
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Editor’s Note: Foreword to the Past
Cover image: UBC’s first president, Dr. Frank Fairchild Wesbrook, visiting Point Grey, ca. 1916. The dynamite shack was located on what is now Main Mall. If it were still around today, it would be...
View ArticleUBC in Numbers (Text)
$175,000 UBC’s annual operating budget in 1915 $2.1 billion UBC’s annual operating budget today. 435 Number of students in 1915/16 (counting those serving overseas in the First World War) 59,659 Number...
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Events
alumni UBC Event Highlights Visit alumni.ubc.ca/events for a full list of events and updates. Your Next Step Okanagan: Meet Your Mentor Kelowna | October 21, 2015 Connect with entrepreneurs and...
View ArticleProtected: Everyone has a story to tell from their student years – what’s yours?
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View Article100 Years of Fashion at UBC
Yoga wear and rain boots may be ubiquitous around campus nowadays, but fashion standards weren’t always so lax at UBC. In the photo gallery below, we take a look back at a century of style at UBC. From...
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Living in Fear
Ikponwosa Ero was born with pale skin and light brown hair, making her unique in her home of Ibadan, Nigeria. She became aware that she was different at age five, when kids at school began calling her...
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438 Days in an Egyptian Jail
Mohamed Fahmy, in his own words: “I always wanted to be the voice of the voiceless and champion those oppressed, and make a difference through my story. Throughout [a] career — any journalist on the...
View ArticleThe Last Word
With Rick Hansen, BPE’86, LLD’87 Q&A with Hansen below “Every time we reach an obstacle, we believe with all our hearts that somehow, some way, there’s a way over it, under it, around it or through...
View ArticleFind a volunteer opportunity to match your skills
Watch this video to learn more about this unique project-sharing platform: your evolution is an online sharing platform for socially beneficial projects. Over the past two years it has grown to...
View ArticleTake Note
UBC research helps small municipalities manage aging water systems UBC researchers have developed a tool that is designed to help small to medium-sized cities and towns address the challenges posed by...
View ArticleEvents & Notices
Events Canada Vancouver/Lower Mainland Calgary Kelowna Ottawa Toronto Montreal International Singapore Paris Vancouver/Lower Mainland BizHacks 2016 March 4-5, 2016 BizHacks aims to create a platform...
View ArticlePresidential Search Update
After extensive stakeholder consultations in Vancouver and the Okanagan – including an alumni survey — UBC’s Presidential Search Committee has finalized the position profile for the 15th president and...
View ArticleTo Divest or Not to Divest?
This article is republished with kind permission from the Ubyssey, UBC’s student publication, where it was originally published under the title “Divestment?” On February 2, 2016. UBC is divided on...
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