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Susan Porter receives award for outstanding leadership in graduate education

Research in focus: Tao Huan

Find out how Assistant Professor of Chemistry Tao Huan’s research on metabolomics is helping provide insight into early life social and environmental factors that affect child health and development.

Launching new pilot program to engage women and gender-diverse junior faculty

The Office of the Provost & Vice-President Academic, UBC Vancouver, is launching a new initiative for women and gender-diverse faculty members in the early stages of their academic career. The pilot program, Maximizing Impact: Navigating Uncertainty and Complexity in the time of COVID-19, aims to engage women and gender-diverse junior faculty in maximizing the impact of their academic endeavours.

Nisga’a scholar launches new Centre for Indigenous Fisheries at UBC

National Academy Sciences awards Patrick Keeling with Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal

Street homeless people learn to ‘perform’ to obtain life-sustaining resources

Claiming home office expenses — updated CRA guidance

Since March 2020, many faculty and staff have been working from home as a result of UBC’s response to COVID-19.

Kevin Leyton-Brown named 2020 Association of Computing Machinery Fellow for lifetime achievements

30-second bio: Meghan MacGillivray

Meet Meghan: The best part of her job is telling Indigenous applicants they have been accepted into the Doctor of Medicine program and are going to become doctors.

Apply for entrepreneurship@UBC venture building programs by Feb. 25

If you are building a science innovation, disruptive technology, social venture or climate solution, entrepreneurship @ UBC helps UBC founders execute on their ideas by focusing on customer discovery, competitive analysis, problem validation and product-market fit.  entrepreneurship @ UBC incubates over 100 ventures annually, producing skilled entrepreneurs with validated business models who are ready to take their venture to the next level.  Faculty and staff may apply for venture building programs by February 25.

Read about UBC's sustainability efforts

It's been ten years since the launch of the UBC Sustainability Initiative – Ten years of connecting, sharing knowledge, and working in partnership to advance sustainability teaching, learning, research, operations and infrastructure, and community development.  If you’re interested in finding opportunities to collaborate and advance sustainability, the 2019-20 Annual Sustainability Report outlines the plans, policies, programs, and projects where UBC is actively working towards sustainability goals. 

Mental health conditions alarmingly high among children with autism