Community organizers and artists are developing supportive spaces in the city for Black Vancouver to connect and create – a difficult task to take on, given the huge deficit of BIPOC representation in the arts scene resulting from Vancouver’s racist history.
Over a thousand people from the UBC community and beyond celebrated the Year of the Rabbit at the UBC Botanical Garden’s first-ever Lunar New Year Market last weekend.
The UBC Vancouver Senate met for the first time in 2023 Wednesday night to vote on amended requirements for unclassified students and hear a presentation on the university’s 2021/22 research achievements.
The Senate meets monthly to discuss and vote on UBC academic matters. But, Senate can often be hard to understand for the average student and the agenda docket can be super long and dull to read. Here’s what to expect at the January 18 Senate meeting.
President Santa Ono’s unexpected departure this fall meant UBC needed someone on short notice, and Buszard was an experienced choice for the job.
The winter storm that rocked BC’s Lower Mainland three weeks ago forced many UBC students’ flying out of Vancouver to change their plans for the break.
Students, faculty and staff can complete the anonymous survey online. The deadline for survey responses is February 23.
Nearly a year after taking home the top prize in Canada West women’s hockey, the UBC Thunderbirds are back to their winning ways.
Translation can be heavy and even traumatic emotional labour that children are often not fully prepared to perform.
UBC said it takes responsibility for its “actions and inactions” regarding its response to questions around former law professor Dr. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond’s claims of Indigenous identity in an email to Indigenous faculty and staff at UBC Vancouver.
AMS councillors appointed Anisha Sandhu as interim AMS VP academic and university affairs (AUA) at a special session of AMS Council on Monday night.
I am from a small town in the middle of Vietnam, so small and uninteresting that I never explicitly mention it unless people ask.
“I wanted my readers to be in a conversation with Homer,” explained Madeline Miller, author of Song of Achilles and Circe, in an interview hosted at the Norm Theatre by UBC’s Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies.
The Lunar New Year is celebrated in accordance with the Chinese lunisolar calendar, which follows the position of the sun and phases of the moon, and ends when the moon is full.
Genetic counsellors at UBC are working at "the intersection of psychology and medicine" to support and educate patients.