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Celebrate Learning Week: Call for contributions

Celebrate Learning Week is a forum for the teaching and learning community to collaborate, network and engage in knowledge exchange. The week-long initiative will be hosted on May 2-9, and the theme is the Power of Place in Teaching and Learning.  Faculty and staff are encouraged to participate by coordinating and/or attending events that reflect on the power of place in teaching and learning experiences.

UBC biotech spin-off developing next-generation radiopharmaceuticals to improve cancer treatment

With roots in UBC research, learn more about how three researchers are developing radiopharmaceuticals to improve cancer treatment. Based on more than a decade of ground-breaking research at UBC and BC Cancer, the cancer drugs act like a homing device — seeking out tumours to deliver targeted radiation treatment, while having minimal impact on nearby healthy tissues. This precision targeting results in drugs that can be more effective and have fewer side effects for patients than traditional radiation treatments.

UBCO researchers compare climate adaptation in Okanagan, Cariboo with Shaanxi, China

Arctic river channels changing due to climate change, scientists discover

Participate in the "try an e-bike program"

Aspire-2040 Learning Transformations (ALT-2040) Fund call for proposals now open

Do you want to support transformative change in teaching and learning to deliver UBC Okanagan's Outlook 2040 academic vision?

Teaching in focus: Carellin Brooks

As a lecturer in the Faculty of Forestry, Carellin hopes her students will learn how to express themselves authentically and bring their personalities into their work.

Globally, children's education becoming more closely tied to their mother's

New UBC research has found that a mother’s educational status — the highest level of education that she has attained — plays an increasingly important role in shaping her children’s educational status, while the importance of the father’s educational status has declined. Find out more

Is AI coming for white-collar jobs? A psychology professor finds out the hard way

Announcing funded Research Excellence Clusters at UBC Vancouver

A total of 38 emerging and established Research Excellence Clusters led by researchers on the Vancouver campus will be supported in 2023/24. This total includes 23 awards made through the 2023/24 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters Competition (GCRC) and 15 clusters entering the second year of their current award.

UBC recognized as one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers in 2023

UBC has been recognized as one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers in 2023. This designation recognizes employers across Canada with exceptional workplace diversity and inclusiveness programs.  

Announcing the 2023/24 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund Projects