Furthering Feminism
10 September, 2020
How the women of UBC Okanagan are challenging stereotypes, shifting power paradigms and working towards a world of equal opportunity.
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UBCV30 July, 2024 | Announcement | Faculty & StaffProvince of BC adopts amended Land Use Plan for the UBC Vancouver campus
The Province of BC has adopted an amended Land Use Plan for the UBC Vancouver campus, enabling the university to begin implementing the ideas, policies and strategies developed with the community through the Campus Vision 2050 process.
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UBCV30 July, 2024 | Media release | Faculty & StaffUBC super-black wood can improve telescopes, optical devices and consumer goods
Thanks to an accidental discovery, researchers at UBC have created a new super-black material that absorbs almost all light, opening potential applications in fine jewellery, solar cells and precision optical devices. Dr. Philip Evans and PhD student Kenny Cheng were experimenting with high-energy plasma to make wood more water-repellent, like a lotus leaf. However, when they applied the technique to the cut ends of wood cells, the surfaces turned extremely black.
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UBCV & UBCO15 July, 2024 | Feature story | Faculty & StaffWhy the 2024 Paris Olympics are pivotal for gender equity in amateur and recreational sports
The Paris Olympics have made some high-profile announcements around gender equity, making these the first Games with full numerical gender parity on the playing field. The Games will have a nursery in the Olympic village in which athletes may breastfeed, and organizers have scheduled the women’s marathon as the final event of the games, in a prime-time spot previously reserved for the men’s marathon.
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UBCO11 July, 2024 | Feature story | Faculty & StaffThe future of construction: From building booms to control rooms
UBC Okanagan’s Dr. Qian Chen knows firsthand the contrasts between China and Canada.For example, the Civil Engineering Assistant Professor can’t keep a straight face when she describes her upbringing near Shanghai, a metropolis of 25 million people.“I’m from a small town,” she says, then laughs as she raises quotation marks over “small.”
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