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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.

Discover six newly funded projects aimed at advancing sustainability and wellbeing

Last fall, the Campus as a Living Lab invited proposals from faculty and staff at UBC Vancouver seeking funding for their teams to test new ideas to support climate action, resilient systems, sustainable places and communities, and health and wellbeing. 

Teaching in focus: Patrick Walls

Patrick is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at UBC Vancouver. Find out how the use of open source programming transformed his approach to teaching and why he is inspired to engage students in the messy job of learning.

Charting a new course for Multiple Sclerosis treatment

Research from the UBC Faculty of Medicine could stop Multiple Sclerosis in its tracks — and even reverse its devastating effects One day in the spring of 2014, Heidi Scott’s face went numb. Out-of-nowhere, just-returned-from-the-dentist numb, as she vividly remembers. “I was on a business trip and it took me completely by surprise. My entire face was affected,” Heidi says. Alarmed, she returned home to see her doctor, who ordered a battery of tests. The results were inconclusive.

Counselling sessions available to Black faculty and staff