Iranian-Swedish medical researcher Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali was sentenced to death in October 2017 on disputed charges of espionage.
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It was just a set of time-trials, behind closed doors, but the Odlum Brown Swim Series this past weekend represented a whole lot more for the UBC Thunderbirds swim teams.
UBC alumna Loujain al-Hathloul’s case has been referred to a terrorism court in Saudi Arabia after she protested the country’s now-repealed ban on women driving.
As winter break approaches, rising COVID-19 cases are causing many students to ask if they will spend the holidays alone.
All the way from Oahu, Hawaii, USA, Rose Garcia joined the women’s Thunderbirds swim team this year. She plans to compete in the 100m freestyle, 50m freestyle, 50m backstroke, 50m butterfly and, possibly, 100m butterfly.
After closing down for months due to the global pandemic, starting mid-October UBC Recreation was finally went back to offering drop-in basketball as well as tennis, swimming and other sports. However, students are violating SRC rules.
Announced yesterday in Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s fall economic update, the move will cost Ottawa $329.4 million and will affect up to 1.4 million students.
Dr. Benjamin Cheung, a psychology lecturer, announced in a tweet that he would be ending classes a week early for all his students.
While the AMS has heard of a potential Chegg trap following the accusations, the course instructor denied those claims.
In her poem, A Blue Filter, which was recently longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize, Warrener reflects on this spontaneity of memory. The poem centres around the first time she saw Irises blooming out the window of the morning train in Japan, where she taught English after graduating from the University of Victoria.
The decision comes as Student Housing and Community Services (SHCS), which has a separate budget from UBC, is projecting a deficit of $80 to $90 million, or a 40 per cent loss of revenue, for the 2020/21 fiscal year as a result of COVID-19.
Postmedia published UBC op-eds and coverage in September without disclosing that they were part of a $10,000 to $15,000 advertising deal with the university.
The recommendations intend to create ways for students to access information about elections and executive roles, and for the society to reduce the elections timeline, to increase executive salaries and to reach out to equity-seeking communities.
Even in a pandemic stricken season, Matt Neaves looks to blaze a path for UBC men’s volleyball. Neaves's path during this pandemic has seen him trade his environment at UBC for a spot with the Canadian National Excellence Program (NEP) in Gatineau, Quebec.
The branch is part of UBC’s veteran-friendly campus initiative to make campus more welcoming to veterans and to help them transition back to civilian life.