This last Saturday, UBC hosted the NBA All-Star Challenge that has been travelling across the country. Returning to the city with the event is former Vancouver Grizzlies icon Shareef Abdur-Rahim. The game has never played in Canada before.
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First-year Sauder student Thenuka Karunaratne is also the CEO and founder of AdMark Technologies. He created a Netflix search engine called Flixed, which allows users to search for content throughout different countries and regions.
For those who are unfamiliar, Rabbi Loeub explained that Shabbat is the Jewish Sabbath — a day of rest that begins on Friday evening and closes on Saturday night. For those 25 hours, observers refrain from doing any work.
The BC Human Rights Tribunal has made a decision to accept the case of Lorna June McCue, who argues that UBC's mandate for scholars to publish in academic journals runs counter to indigenous oral traditions.
According to recent study, First Nations’ fishery catches could collapse by almost 50 per cent by 2050 as a result of climate change, further endangering the food and economic security of indigenous communities along coastal British Columbia.
A floating concrete canoe might seem like a paradox, but the UBC Concrete Canoe team assure that, “yes, it floats!” Now in its third year, the team is in the middle of constructing a sleek and lightweight concrete canoe that is less dense than water.
Jaymie Matthews, UBC professor and astrophysicist, has co-authored a paper on a new method of measuring the gravitational field of stars that could lead to more accurate understandings of the planets orbiting them.
Thunderbird rugby players Elizabeth Theems-Golding and Annabel Arnott are training with Julie Johnson, a national team bobsled pilot hopeful. The duo had never bobsledded before a few months ago when Johnson approached the team.
Songs of the Wasteland is a 13 piece musical drama composed by Holocaust survivor Renia Perel. Perel tells her experience during the Holocaust through music by remembering those who perished and celebrating the brave heroes of the Holocaust.
Skiing and boarding attracts thousands of snow-stoked students year after year and rightfully so. Lucky for us, UBC is close to a Mecca of world ski terrain. If you haven’t hit the slopes yet this season, you are truly missing out.
In the same year as UBC’s Centennial celebration and for the first time in 44 years, the UBC men's basketball team will host the CIS Final 8 on a new wooden court at the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre.
UBC A Cappella is a talented group of students who promise to shine on the international stage as they pitch-slap their competition at the ICCA quarterfinals and give the Carnegie Hall audience toners you can see through their jeans.
The couple are targeting “daydreamers and wanderlusts,” according to Mr. Matthews. Moving from careers in sales and corporate recruiting respectively, the couple wanted to use their memories of places that they had visited and loved.
UBC does well in terms of financial aid to domestic students partly because of Policy 72, which states that no current domestic student should be forced to stop their studies due to financial constraints. However, education about finances is lacking.
The release package regarding former President Arvind Gupta's resignation was finally released after months of waiting. The package is 850 pages in length and is heavily redacted, leaving the ultimate reason of Gupta's departure still unknown.