Four UBC professors and a recent PhD graduate student have filed a lawsuit against the university alleging official land acknowledgments done by UBC, equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) hiring requirements and academic units' statements regarding Israel and Palestine violate UBC’s duty to “be non-sectarian and non-political in principle” under section 66 of the University Act.
On March 22, UBC alum Evan Dunfee broke the 35 km race walk world record by 7 seconds.
UBC Food Services have been going back to the basics, an approach that prioritizes wholesome, sustainable, local and diverse food. Executive Sous Chef of Retail, Restaurants and Catering Andy Chan tries to emulate this same value-based approach in his cooking.
Despite the name, UBC’s Women Empowerment Club isn’t just for women — the group aims to foster an inclusive and safe environment for anyone who wants to work against sexism.
AMS thrift and consignment store Get Thrifty brought their fourth annual fashion show to The Gallery on March 4, with a focus on upcycling, fashion circulation and promoting emerging designers from the UBC community.
On April 5, eligible Vancouverites — including those who live on campus — will have the opportunity to vote in the Vancouver by-election to fill two vacant seats on City Council.
Find out what "kind of girl" you are by describing a time at Wreck Beach and learn more about yourself by playing "Which is worse?" All on Girl's Lower Mainland's activities page!
Follow along with Girl's Lower Mainland's craft page by making a paper doll study budy and UBC-themed slime!
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Let Girl's Lower Mainland tell you how the Engineering Cairn is just like you, about UBC's first frat girl, and about a new extension to fight back against chain mail!
Spring has sprung, the sun is back out on campus and the end of the semester is upon us. For our last T-Birds 5-on-5 of the 2024/25 season, we asked five assorted questions to five varsity athletes. Here are their answers.
In a study published in Nature Communications on February 12, the pair along with other researchers in the UBC Faculty of Medicine discovered a new type of brain cell called ovoid cells that play a key role in our ability to recognize and remember objects.
As UBC’s Board of Governors (BoG) met in the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre to approve the university’s 2025/26 budget last Friday, a group of about two-dozen protesters called on the BoG from outside the locked and guarded Alumni Centre to divest from companies they say are complicit in genocide and human rights abuses in Gaza and the West Bank.
On March 29, the central branch of the Vancouver Public Library hosted UBC classical Persian literature professor Dr. Alexandra Hoffmann for a free talk on “Bizhan and Manizheh,” a Farsi story from the Persian Shahnameh (Book of Kings).