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Midwifery care safe for moderate- and high-risk pregnancies

Stay up-to-date with your UBC required training

In an effort to ensure UBC is compliant with required training, staff and student employees will begin receiving reminders through Workday. Please keep an eye out for this new notification and ensure you have completed the most up-to-date version of any required training. Even if you have completed required training in the past, you may still need to complete new or updated modules. Look out for notifications from Mar. 6.

Call for elections and additional nominations: Chancellor Search Committee

A message from Fred Withers, Chair, alumni UBC Board of Directors; Rella Ng, Associate Vice-President, Enrolment Services and Registrar Please note: This message is sent on behalf of the UBC Alumni Association (alumni UBC). Earlier this month, we invited nominations from students, faculty and staff to serve on the Chancellor Search Committee. We are now opening elections for certain positions, as well as putting an additional call out for nominations for open positions.

Access your T4 / T4A statements and T2200S forms on Workday

As we enter tax season, access the following information on Workday:

Help us improve the way we communicate internally

You are invited to share your opinion of internal communications at UBC – ranging from how you access information in your Faculty and department, to the work of the central Internal Communications team. Since the Internal Communications team was founded in 2014, we have been working to improve the way the university communicates with faculty and staff.

Message from the Provost, UBC Okanagan

Call for proposals for the Black Faculty Cohort Hiring Initiative

Proposals are invited for UBC’s Black Faculty Cohort Hiring Initiative, which focuses on hiring a number of professors at the same time, either within or across departments, Faculties and/or across strategic research and teaching priority areas at the university.

2023 President’s awards for staff: Call for nominations

A message from Deborah Buszard, Interim President and Vice-Chancellor

Invitation to join UBC’s Accessibility Committee

UBC is taking steps to establish an Accessibility Committee to support disability inclusion and guide future direction at the university. Students, staff, and faculty are invited to apply to serve on the inaugural committee. The committee will be tasked with providing ongoing guidance and advice to the university on the identification, removal and prevention of barriers to accessibility and to help fulfill the university’s legal obligations and commitments to disability inclusion and justice principles. 

So-called ‘safe’ pesticides have surprising ill effects

Finding new life for plastic waste

From bottles and straws, toys and Tupperware to medical stents, eyewear and even tea bags, plastic is everywhere in our society. Although the meteoric rise of plastic was the result of its economy and ease of production, the question now is, what do we do with the estimated 380 million tonnes of plastic waste produced globally each year? This problem was something UBC Okanagan’s Dr. Mohammad Arjmand knew he could help solve with the varied expertise and state-of-the-art plastic processing equipment available at the university.