Sometimes on those overcast evenings, my friend and I would skip across the harbour to her parents’ boat. Despite the rain, the sun made an appearance, peaking between the grey clouds and casting the waves in pink and sea-green with tips of orange-gold.
As a leader in structural and earthquake engineering and a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Yang is committed to advancing civil engineering with innovative research.
While Sebastian Molnar was still living in Toronto, he and his buddies took a weekend road trip to Montréal for the city’s annual jazz festival where, at one of the stages, a melodic fusion of jazz and Latin music emanated from the performing band.
Taunton passed away on October 23 at 77 after a battle with cancer. He is survived by his wife, Cheryl, their two daughters and six grandchildren.
As the province’s fourth-worst recorded wildfire season in history comes to a close, The Ubyssey sat down with student and alum wildland firefighters to learn more about adventures on those fiery frontlines.
Everything is sweeter in Paradise, Nevada — that’s what we concluded after our four-day trip.
Eby’s UBC roots put him in an ideal position to bring campus issues to the forefront of provincial politics — so what did having a local MLA running the province do for UBC?
Komaniecki aims to inspire confidence in his students. And this starts on day one when, according to class tradition, he will have new students stand up and sing together.
Beginnings were so structured once.
Today, I feel agnostic. / How do I know He exists?
I wanted desperately to fall into myself like girls in romantic comedies are allowed to, let my hair grow greasy and spoon Ben and Jerry’s into my mouth, openly sob to Norah Jones in the living room. But, most real life women don’t have the time to fall apart completely and cinematically.
When you get an out-of-the-blue invite to a weekend on Vancouver Island’s west coast, what are you supposed to say? Normally, I would say no.
This is my beginning: allowing myself to feel every emotion and make mistakes without being so hard on myself.
What happens when a filmmaker’s goal is to chronicle something specifically due to its absence from their personal experience? How do you capture something you haven’t lived (or remember having lived) first-hand?
By the time Nambuuza moved to Burnaby from Uganda at 16, she had already developed her skills in teaching coding to kids — her passion for computers was ignited at an early age and she said her mother encouraged her to turn this passion into an advocating force bigger than herself.