In a study published in Nature Communications on February 12, the pair along with other researchers in the UBC Faculty of Medicine discovered a new type of brain cell called ovoid cells that play a key role in our ability to recognize and remember objects.
As UBC’s Board of Governors (BoG) met in the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre to approve the university’s 2025/26 budget last Friday, a group of about two-dozen protesters called on the BoG from outside the locked and guarded Alumni Centre to divest from companies they say are complicit in genocide and human rights abuses in Gaza and the West Bank.
On March 29, the central branch of the Vancouver Public Library hosted UBC classical Persian literature professor Dr. Alexandra Hoffmann for a free talk on “Bizhan and Manizheh,” a Farsi story from the Persian Shahnameh (Book of Kings).
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UBC released its first ever Student Diversity Census Report (SDC) with 32 per cent of the UBC students across both campuses responding to the survey.
UBC’s Board of Governors met in the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre at UBC Vancouver on Friday to discuss the Student Affordability Task Force Report and approve UBC’s 2025/26 budget.
The drive to embody the opposite mentality of the prep schools Dr. Yves Tiberghien experienced as a student in France motivated him to leverage compassion and innovative instruction techniques in his teaching to encourage curiosity and creativity, borrowing from his adventures around the world and the lived experiences he observed along the way.
We were experiencing Bath looking from the outside in.
As students filtered into UBC on March 24 and 25 they were met with the booming chants — and at times songs — of pro-Palestine protesters.
On March 26, AMS Council met to discuss AMS elections, appoint an interim VP student life, approve an AMS/GSS Health & Dental coverage increase and talk early voting options for the upcoming federal election.
“Our university presents itself as having learned from its past failings. After 500 days of silence, one cannot help but wonder whether this is merely a façade, embroidered with blood and hoisted by vapid declarations about human rights,” writes Omar Bseiso.
For the first time in UVic and UBC rivalry history, the Thunderbirds won a third consecutive Dogwood Bowl title in late February.
In a Mughlai restaurant in Toronto, three lives intertwine. As Ayub, one of its employees, is cleaning up, a mysterious cab driver walks in and shatters his peace, leaving Ayub to confront reality, the family he’s left behind and the dreams long abandoned.
Being a fan of anything isn’t about being rational. It’s knowing that your passion might not be rational, and caring anyway.