On November 12, 2020, VP Finance & Operations Peter Smailes sent an email to students, informing them that the review would be conducted by Canadian law firm Rubin Thomlinson LLP, more than a month after Ono requested the review be completed.
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The UBC Okanagan Senate has approved a week-long extension of winter break, delaying the start of winter term two.
AMS Council met last night over Zoom to discuss the new ethics and accountability committee, VP External Kalith Nanayakkara’s apparent conflict of interest and recent allegations of cheating in MATH 100.
“This is pretty complicated. UBC considered this decision back in the summer, and even earlier this month,” a student senator said.
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Yesterday, the House of Commons unanimously extended a moratorium on federal student loan payments to May 2021.
Last week, AMS President Cole Evans wrote to AMS Council to inform them that he believed Nanayakkara had violated conflict of interest rules by sending invoices related to ThePlug using his AMS email to the AMS Events manager.
The UBC engineering community gathered virtually today to honour the 14 women killed 31 years ago and reflect on persistent gender-based discrimination in the applied sciences.
How UBC students struggle to meet remote-learning technology requirements.
The extra money is a result of an overcollection of student health insurance fees in the 2019/20 academic year and a bill reduction of $500,000 granted by the Pacific Blue Cross earlier this year.
The project, which aims to genetically incorporate powdery mildew resistance into cannabis cultivars, is led by UBC researchers Drs. Loren Reiseberg and Marco Todesco.
As BC enters a second wave of the pandemic, UBC Student Housing and Community Services has adapted provincial restrictions for campus residences.
Currently, the closest testing site is downtown at the City Centre Urgent Primary Care Centre. For students who are displaying symptoms, visiting the downtown testing site may be difficult.
Shortness of breath and impaired quality of life were the two most common adverse outcomes, at incidence rates of 50 per cent and 51 per cent respectively.
The online event was organized by UBC Climate Hub in collaboration with the Indigenous Committee, under the Climate Solutions Showcase, a year-long event series on a variety of topics centered around climate change, race and intersectionality