Updates, news and stories
A selection of updates, news and stories from across the university.
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UBCVFebruary 20, 2024 | Announcement | Faculty & Staff
UBC Vancouver – Apply to the Sustainability Coordinator Program
The Sustainability Coordinator Program provides faculty and staff with opportunities and resources to promote and implement sustainable practices at work at UBC Vancouver. It allows interested faculty and staff to work up to four paid hours per month (subject to supervisor approval). The program is aimed at enhancing sustainability awareness within your Faculty/unit, fostering relationships, and promoting sustainable practices across UBC through peer-to-peer learning and knowledge sharing.
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UBCV & UBCOFebruary 20, 2024 | Announcement | Faculty & Staff
Learn more about UBC’s faculty and staff (FAS) email migration to the cloud
With data security a priority at UBC, the university is taking action by preparing to migrate all faculty and staff email services (FASmail) from being hosted on-premises to the cloud platform Microsoft Exchange Online. The migration will take place over the course of the next 12-18 months on a departmental basis, beginning with UBC IT and a number of pilot departments.Two online information sessions will be held for faulty and staff in Vancouver and the Okanagan to learn more about this project.
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UBCVFebruary 20, 2024 | 30-second bio | Faculty & Staff
30-second bio: David Boyd
David is an associate professor within the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability. He invites you to imagine a world in which everyone is kind towards everyone else, including our non-human living relations.
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UBCOFebruary 20, 2024 | Leadership one-on-one | Faculty & Staff
Marie Tarrant
Dr. Marie Tarrant is Dean of the Faculty of Health and Social Development and professor in the School of Nursing at UBC Okanagan. She was appointed to the role of Dean in January 2023. Prior to this, she was Director of the School of Nursing. Before joining UBC in 2016, Dr. Tarrant served as Deputy Head and Professor at the School of Nursing in the University of Hong Kong. During her career, she has also practiced as a community and public health nurse in rural and remote areas of Canada, including the far north. Dr. Tarrant is the lead investigator in the School of Nursing Maternal and Child Health Lab and is a frequently cited UBC expert on maternal and child health issues. Her research focuses on breastfeeding and maternal and childhood vaccine hesitancy, including COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.
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UBCOFebruary 14, 2024 | Media release | Faculty & Staff
UBCO researchers get to the bottom of non-invasive gut tests
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UBCV & UBCOFebruary 13, 2024 | Announcement | Faculty & Staff
UBC recognized as one of BC's top employers in 2024
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UBCV & UBCOFebruary 12, 2024 | UBC Broadcast | Faculty & Staff
2024 President's awards for staff: Call for nominations
A message from Benoit-Antoine Bacon, President and Vice-Chancellor.Each year through the President’s staff awards, we recognize and celebrate staff members who demonstrate outstanding achievement and excellence within the UBC community, and who enable us to shape the future of research, teaching, and work.I invite you to nominate your staff colleagues for the 2024 awards. Nominations may be submitted by faculty, staff, and students. The deadline for nominations is 4pm on March 22.
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UBCVFebruary 12, 2024 | Feature story | Faculty & Staff
Can your breath be used to detect lung cancer?
Killing more people every year than breast, colon and cervical cancer combined, lung cancer is the most-deadly form of cancer globally.Currently detected using an imaging test, such as a CT scan, lung cancer is typically confirmed by biopsy — whereby a sample of tissue or fluid from around a patient’s lungs is carefully extracted and examined under a microscope.But what if the world’s deadliest cancer could be quickly and easily detected using something as simple, and painless as a breath test?
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UBCVFebruary 12, 2024 | Teaching in focus | Faculty & Staff
Teaching in focus: Hanh Huynh
Hanh Huynh is an associate professor of teaching in the Faculty of Medicine. His teaching approach centres on the principle of 'less is more', providing students with the time and space to discover answers to their own questions.
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UBCV & UBCOFebruary 8, 2024 | Announcement | Faculty & Staff
Meet the winter recipients of the 2023 Partnership Recognition and Exploration Fund
This winter, Partnership Recognition and Exploration (PRE) funding was awarded to 15 collaborative community-university initiatives, showcasing the diverse ways in which communities are partnering with UBC students, faculty and staff in Vancouver and the Okanagan. Receiving up to $1,500 each, some of the most recently funded community-university projects are working to:
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UBCV & UBCOFebruary 8, 2024 | Announcement | Faculty
2024 University Killam Professors competition – call for nominations
The biennial University Killam Professor competition is open for the nomination of exceptional faculty members who are extraordinary teachers and researchers, leaders in their academic fields, and have received national and international recognition.A maximum of three professors may be appointed during each competition cycle. It is the highest honour that the University can confer on a faculty member. University Killam Professors are expected to contribute to the overall intellectual life of the university and to serve as academic ambassadors to UBC’s external community.