UBC psychology instructor, Steven Barnes, has developed six Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in order to help high school students prepare for the AP psychology exam. Students from over 150 countries will have access to these MOOCs.
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"Even the positive labels — like being so-called gifted or intelligent — prevents you from being able to act or feel a certain way because you are always expected to be a perfect student. We wanted to find a way to combat that."
Two incoming UBC students — Lasya Vankayala and Noah Tajwar — have won Canada’s largest undergraduate STEM scholarship. The Schulich Leadership Scholarship was founded in 2012 with a $100 million dollar donation.
UBC students have united on Facebook to bring you “UBC Free Food.” This is a real-time feed where you can get your on-campus snack fix when you can’t hear yourself think over your growling stomach. Let the feast begin!
The province has levied an additional $1 million yearly fee against the UNA to pay for fire protection services. Since this amount makes up a large percentage of the UNA’s yearly budget of $4.5 million, UBC is stepping in to help manage this fee.
Once more the Vancouver Fringe Festival will be taking over the city from September 8 to 18, saturating every stage with the wild, the dramatic and the bizarre. Going to Fringe can be a daunting task for those uninitiated.
f you are looking to revitalize your seasonal attire many of the trends for this year’s fall fashion are being resurrected from the ‘70s and ’90s. From jackets to hats, here are some of this year’s essential fall trends.
The team launched the boat from Newfoundland and was headed towards Ireland. It doesn't, however, look like Ada will complete the journey. The boat likely suffered a mechanical failure on Monday evening and is unable to turn.
Their preseason was not the best, but the Thunderbird men’s soccer team opened their Canada West regular season with a satisfactory win against the Thompson Rivers University Wolfpack (TRU) and a draw against the UBC Okanagan Heat (UBCO).
"We knew they would apply a lot of full court pressure and they're very tenacious and quick with their hands so they create a lot of turnovers — particularly in the first half, which really hurt us,” head coach Deb Huband told UBC Athletics.
It was a game of several firsts. It was the ‘Birds’ first game since their Vanier Cup win, and their first time facing the Manitoba Bisons after dispatching them in their 52-10 Canada West semi-final blowout.
The federal government has filed a lawsuit against UBC and Christopher Zed. UBC alleges that its former associate dean of dentistry, Christopher Zed, "personally and inappropriately enriched himself" while acting as a senior dentist in Haida Gwaii.
Last Monday, six refugee students arrived on campus. These students were privately sponsored by UBC students through the recently expanded World University Service of Canada (WUSC) student refugee program.
After winning two of their three preseason matches to kick off the year-- including their 7-0 decimation of University of Northern British Columbia Timberwolves (UBC)-- the team headed to Burnaby to play a friendly against their cross-town rivals
"Canadian sororities and fraternities are quite different than the ones in the States, so people coming to UBC don’t even know that sororities are a thing – they just think it’s a States thing and a party thing," she said.