According to a press release, former president Arvind Gupta will take up a position as a visiting professor to U of T for the next year.
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The result of this ambitious project is understandably uneven, but taken as a whole, it is one of the most socially significant and politically charged films of the year.
We learn French. We know the face of the Queen. We can recite the names of Jaques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, Captain Vancouver – do you remember the name of a single Musqueum chief? I don’t.
Following the approval of the Board of Governors, the construction of a new residence to accommodate 404 students is set to begin in October. Unlike other residences on campus, this building will be made almost entirely out of wood.
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Henrik Ibsen’s gripping and controversial play A Doll’s House returns to Vancouver after a decade.
No matter where you go, UBC’s language program will be there for you. Surprise your friends next time you hear them talking trash about you in another language, and you’ll finally figure out that they're not actually talking about oxen in their bed.
UBC students were given a healthy dose of laughter and reality in the Chan Centre on September 28 as Laci Green, content creator for the internet’s most-watched sex education show came to share her tips for how the have the Best Sex Ever.
August 27, 2015: it’s 8pm in Enschede, Holland, and Alana Westerhof walks through the rain, across the Tex-Town Tigers’ home-field. She walks up to the pitcher’s mound, which is soaked, and has the consistency of soup. She stands in the middle of it trying to wipe down the ball with her jersey. Once the ball is dry, or as dry as it’s going to be, she shifts her focus towards home plate.
“We should know what we are asking of our troops when we send them to fight overseas,” said Paul Gross, director and co-star on the film Hyena Road, during his Q and A session after the film.
Internal loans are what UBC and some other BC universities sometimes turn to for the type of large scale infrastructure projects that seem to be ever present on university campuses.
Meru plays less like a documentary and more of a thriller in the skin of a documentary, with its many terrifying twists and fearsome feats feeling more suitable for a drama or a thriller.