The Digital Tattoo project uses blog posts, essays, videos, and even a badge system as a resource to help students think about their online presence. As Cindy Underhill, colead of the project, puts it, "applications and tools online are not neutral."
Students from all faculties struggle with this dilemma every year as important 100-level classes as well as higher-level pre-requisite classes fill up far quicker than the number of students that need to enrol can get a spot.
The 2016 AMS Block Party, after months-long battles between the AMS, UBC and the University Neighbourhoods Association (UNA), lost $207,295, according to the AMS's 2016/17 budget presentation to Council.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Faculties of Applied Science at post-secondary institutions across BC are beginning to lobby the provincial government for $58 million over the next 3 years. The money will be used to help institutions meet the demand for engineering graduates.
Surrey Creep Catchers, a group known for publishing false advertisements to lure men looking for underage children, recently published a video spotlighting a UBC employee. UBC has released a statement confirming his employment.
A number of Car2Go and Evo parking spots in Hawthorne Place are soon going to be removed after a survey conducted by the UNA revealed that many of the area’s residents disliked the large build-up of car share parking spots around neighbourhoods.
As of September, Sprouts — an organic, vegetarian food outlet — will be temporarily moving out of the old Sub and into the Pit Pub in the AMS student Nest. Given the Pit space's usage at night, Sprouts will only occupy the Pit during the daytime.
The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), released today, names UBC as the 34th university in the world. Last year's ranking placed UBC in 40th place, and this is the first time that UBC has dropped below 35th place.
Despite their disappointment with how the universities handled their cases, some of the panelists were optimistic that change is coming, and hope that universities will be open to this change rather than resistant.
Today is Santa Ono's first official day as UBC president. To start off his five year term, Ono held a "coffee talk" meet and greet. The event was popular with students, faculty, staff and animal rights protestors all in attendance.