Students will only be able to drop courses until February 6; they will not be able to add any courses past the original add drop deadline of January 21.
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The current rules at VCH hospitals require all visitors to remove the mask they arrive in and replace it with the provided surgical mask.
Fourth-year Azuz Al-Rubaye started a GoFundMe page to raise tuition money for his younger sister Atika’s final year of medical school at the University of Alexandria.
On the night of January 18, a rat appeared at the dining hall’s grill station. In a video of the incident, a cook picked up the rat with a pair of tongs before the rat wiggled out onto the floor.
Given the high transmissibility of the recent Omicron variant, health experts now say that N95 and KN95 masks should be recommended in indoor public settings.
Community members could get free immunoassay fentanyl strips (FTS) and naloxone kits on the main floor of the Nest.
The comments were made during a break in class when Dr. John Sherman was discussing the semantics of calling something a fact or racist.
Over the past several years, members of the Indigenous community who worked with UBC in some capacity have had difficulties receiving appropriate and timely payment.
The petition says that students, particularly those who are disabled or immunocompromised, should have the option to learn remotely if they want to.
The BCCDC is reporting a 36 per cent positivity rate for the UBC community health service area between January 18 and 24.
President Santa Ono and Principal of UBC Okanagan Lesley Cormack said classes would be in person until the end of term two in a broadcast email sent to community members on January 26.
According to meeting minutes, the AMS had been considering putting forward a referendum in this year’s AMS elections since late October 2021.
UBC said it will continue its rapid testing program partially vaccinated, unvaccinated and undeclared community members “as a campus safety measure."
The AMS is in the early stages of implementing a rapid testing program for staff members who are unvaccinated or did not declare their vaccination status to the society.
Employee wages and UBC’s return to classes were major topics of conversation at AMS Council’s biweekly meeting on Wednesday, January 26.