Members of the UBC Improv team took to the stage in the AMS Student Nest Blackbox Theatre to provide an hour of improv shenanigans with the aim of relieving all of the pent up election stress that is no doubt churning in the hearts of every politically-conscious student out there.
During this period he wrote a letter to his former lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, who, according to Dr Gregory Mackie, a Wilde scholar in the department of English, was “one of the greatest shits in the history of English literature.”
Former Board of Governors chair John Montalbano has resigned from his position, despite being found by a fact-finding process to be not guilty of infringing on the academic freedom of Jennifer Berdahl.
The verdict on whether John Montalbano infringed on Jennifer Berdahl's academic freedom? Not guilty.
October 10 marked the return of the UBC eSports Association’s bimonthly Super Smash Bros. tournaments.
As the university prepares to raise international tuition by around 40 per cent over the next three years, the administration says they lack existing data to measure what impact the increases will have on the socioeconomic makeup of the international student population.
Although the Board of Governors instruction to raise fees relies heavily on meeting goals related to the terms like “best”, “value” and “excellence”, UBC currently has no working definitions for these terms. “We’re going to seek feedback on that,” said Redish. “I’m not going to chart out a simple statement.”
In a recent study published in the Nature, UBC researcher Michele Koppes and her team compared glaciers in northern Patagonia and in the western Antarctic Peninsula.
In the middle of campus there’s a small, unremarkable, concrete building with one locked glass door on its northwest corner labeled ‘Clean Energy Research Centre’. You’d never guess it’s home to one of Canada’s largest fuel-cell research groups, working internationally with major industry and science partners to bring fuel cell technologies to market.
“I don’t think Mike Bartlett was interested in saying anything, I think he was more interested in asking questions…[COCK] doesn’t have a strong message…rather a challenge for the audience to consider things they haven’t considered before.”
Before there was Youtube, there was television. Before there was television, there was film. And before there was film, there was Eadweard Muybridge, who created the first moving pictures in the 19th century through stop-motion photography.
The arts and science faculties were one faculty until 1953, said Associate Dean of Science in Student Services. Once they separated, the Faculty of Science still kept the requirement that science students must take a minimum number of arts credits.
The future of the annual Block Party music festival is at risk after university administrators refused to grant the AMS a permit to use Thunderbird Stadium for the event, according to the student society.
Slacknotes, a project from fourth-year computer science student Chris Zhu, lets you search any course currently offered at UBC and view its grade averages since 2007
We took the liberty of breaking down the three big names in the Vancouver Quadra riding so that you know where each one sits on the issues that matter to students.