Members of the university RCMP detachment were called to the 2500 block of West Mall — which is Totem Park Residence — after receiving a report that a male suspect was being held pending police arrival.
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The faculties of engineering and medicine are cooperating to form an undergraduate division within a new school specific to biomedical engineering. Students may be entering the school as early as fall 2017.
The Sustainable Future Fund's statement of investment policies and procedures was approved at the last UBC Board of Governors meeting — which took place September 21 — in the Okanagan. But what is the Sustainable Future Fund, and how does it work?
A known fact about the Bookstore is that its prices are bigger than anything else on campus. Whispers of lower prices and better products in the dark underbelly of the retail community have always been discounted as rumours, but they aren’t.
“When I say that sexual assault is an epidemic, I don’t say that lightly. In terms of creating that cultural change and making sure that survivors and people who have caused harm are getting the support they need, we do need more.”
Due to recent tuition increases, UBC's emergency bursary fund for international students will be increasing. In parallel to this, UBC is looking at how to better help students facing financial distress due to events in their home country.
At Vancouver’s annual Interior Design Show, UBC PhD student Felix Böck stood in front of a slab of 100,000 chopsticks, which weighed 450 kilograms. It is a conservative estimate for how many chopsticks the Vancouver metro area discards daily.
“We don’t have a set starting lineup yet. We’ll play with that a little bit through the season, and we have a lot of new players with six rookies," said Huband. "We’re all getting to know each other a little bit, so there’ll be lots of opportunities
“Overall, the team’s in a great space and we’ve focused on October as the month when we want to keep building and get to that next level,” UBC head coach Jesse Symons said of the team’s performance. “I think we showed that this weekend in both matche
The four overtime periods was again a tight contest between the ’Birds and Bisons, where both teams took the lead at different times. In the end, it was UBC that came out on the winning side after two field goals from Hutchins and touchdowns by Pinto
Over the past year and a half, UBC has worked its way out of a leadership crisis. The revisal of Policy 93, which concerns open and closed meetings of the Board of Governors, is happening as a direct result of these events.
A study led by Jamie Veale, a lecturer at The University of Waikako, and UBC prof Elizabeth Saewyc, suggests that pregnancy rates among transgender youth in Canada are similar to those in the population of cisgender youth.
Greenery gone. Landscapes lost. Energy exhausted. The view is vicious and the year is 2100. At least it is in the video game Future Delta 2.0, a UBC CALP brainchild. The game is being used to teach kids about climate change in their own communities.
Upon entering the Burrard Arts Foundation Gallery, the staff warned us not to step on a curving silver line drawn on the floor. Painted with a light-reflexive material, the line traced the solar movements during the fall equinox of September 22.
Tuesday night, the Youth Town Hall on Voting Reform event took place at Irving K. Barber Library. The meeting gave youth under 30 the opportunity to voice their opinions on reforming Canada’s voting system.