UBC Dean of Education Blye Frank hosted his inaugural public lecture Frankly Speaking yesterday evening, focusing on the topic of Mental Health Literacy. Santa Ono participated, placing focus on addressing the stigma surrounding mental health.
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According to AMS President Ava Nasiri, the Pit Pub — which has seen declining attendance in recent years — could see its operating hours decreased and exchanged with later hours for the Gallery, in conjunction with student demand.
Construction on the Chan Gunn Sports Medicine Pavilion is currently underway and scheduled for completion by September 2017. The $11.425 million facility will serve as the new home of the Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Centre.
The Arts Undergraduate Society has partnered with the AMS tutoring department to launch tutoring for popular arts courses such as economics and psychology, with the possibility of political science and math as well.
Since 2010, the total undergraduate enrolment has more than doubled. This demand is further heightened by the fact that some majors, such as mathematics, also require computer science courses. Accordingly, courses are oversubscribed.
A new Gage South Student Residence complex will include four interconnected buildings built on a podium above the new Diesel Bus Exchange, which will apparently cost $22 million. The residence complex will house 651 upper-year and graduate students.
Beginning this October, the SASC has decided to make several operational changes to their support service at UBC. It will soon be extending its operational hours to meet the increasing demand of UBC students for sexual assault consultation.
Yesterday at approximately 11:30 a.m., university RCMP were called to Totem Park Residence after an alleged assault against a women on campus. Further details released identify the suspect as an 18-year-old first-year student at UBC.
Members of the university RCMP detachment were called to the 2500 block of West Mall — which is Totem Park Residence — after receiving a report that a male suspect was being held pending police arrival.
Members of the university RCMP detachment were called to the 2500 block of West Mall — which is Totem Park Residence — after receiving a report that a male suspect was being held pending police arrival.
The faculties of engineering and medicine are cooperating to form an undergraduate division within a new school specific to biomedical engineering. Students may be entering the school as early as fall 2017.
The Sustainable Future Fund's statement of investment policies and procedures was approved at the last UBC Board of Governors meeting — which took place September 21 — in the Okanagan. But what is the Sustainable Future Fund, and how does it work?
Due to recent tuition increases, UBC's emergency bursary fund for international students will be increasing. In parallel to this, UBC is looking at how to better help students facing financial distress due to events in their home country.
Over the past year and a half, UBC has worked its way out of a leadership crisis. The revisal of Policy 93, which concerns open and closed meetings of the Board of Governors, is happening as a direct result of these events.
Tuesday night, the Youth Town Hall on Voting Reform event took place at Irving K. Barber Library. The meeting gave youth under 30 the opportunity to voice their opinions on reforming Canada’s voting system.