From delivering packages for Amazon to being mounted with a chainsaw, drones have been put to some creative uses. One UBC researcher has been using them for a slightly more scholarly purpose — studying bowhead whales in the Canadian Arctic.
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For people who don’t read their UBC email, Rexall is now offering student discounts. In case you didn't know, Rexall is a pharmacy with multiple locations around Vancouver for those commuter students out there.
As announced by Employment and Social Development Canada last Sunday, as of November 1, students will not need to begin paying their Canada Student Loan until they are earning at least $25,000 a year.
You’re an early-career scientist — a UBC undergraduate sitting in HEBB 100 or a graduate student thrown into an unfamiliar field — and your state of perpetual confusion stands in sharp contrast to your competent, confident mentors.
The game was a close matchup and a showcase of the two teams’ quarterbacks and receivers. UBC’s Michael O’Connor and Regina’s Noah Picton were neck-in-neck in passing yards, with 397 and 364 respectively. On the other side of the ball, T-Bird receive
“It’s a big, big deal for sure, for this team and for this program,” head coach Jesse Symons said of the win. “It’s what we expect to do and we wanted it today, and playing against a team that is difficult to break down and they have a lot of motivat
Although the ’Birds were only able to find the back of the net twice, they undoubtedly dominated the game. They outshot the Bisons by an incredible margin of 31-1, forcing Manitoba keeper Madison Wilford to be on top of her game.
The biggest challenge that the T-Birds will have to overcome in the next game is the offensive terror of the Picton brothers. Quarterback Noah Picton has led the CIS in passing yards with 396.8 per game.
“The creation of the transitional bursary was a way to honour Senate regulations ... and understanding to the fact that students sometimes have a year that’s academically inconsistent with who they are as a student overall.”
Orange you glad that the election down South is almost over? UBC research, however, is never done and won’t make your blood pressure rise as much. Here are a number of notable studies the university has churned out to distract you from the election.
Halloween — like Vine — may officially be over, but science is carries on never sleeping. Here are a few things UBC researchers have done while you were out trick-or-treating in your glorious, last-minute, broke-university-student-centric costumes.
The basis of the play follows Esther and Gilles’ transition from living in Montreal to Vancouver. It starts out poking fun at the differences between the two cities such as the fact that it never (ever) stops raining in Vancouver.
When they start making excuses for her, which they will (don't take it personally — they're just trying not to rock the boat), bring them up and ask how they would feel if you were saying those things to them.
There’s no point in buying something you don’t like just because it’s healthy and you think you’ll be able to force yourself to eat it. Don’t waste your money on food that’s going to end up in the garbage.
The BC Court of Appeals has ruled in favour of Trinity Western University (TWU), deciding that graduates of the school will be able to get accreditation from the Law Society of BC and practice law in the province.