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News • December 29, 2021
At least five Master of Management Dual Degree students tested positive for COVID-19 following a series of in-person program events held during the last full-week of finals.
News • December 22, 2021
President Santa Ono announced the change in a broadcast email sent out to students today. Classes will return to in-person instruction on January 24, just two weeks after the beginning of the term.
News • December 22, 2021
In the statement, the sociology professors wrote that they stood opposed to actions of the federal government, the BC government and the RMCP that violate the sovereignty and rights of the Wet’suwet’en people.
News • December 19, 2021
The AMS hosted a press conference to protest in-person exams and urged the university to move exams online for student safety. The university insists exam halls are safe.
News • December 22, 2021
The two machines will be located in the Sauder School of Business’s Henry Angus Building and in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
News • December 19, 2021
The faculty of science recently appointed three new associate deans, renewing concerns around the lack of a Board of Governors policy to appoint associate deans.
News • December 18, 2021
President Santa Ono announced that UBC will be expanding its COVID-19 testing and reaffirmed that exams will continue in person in an update earlier this afternoon.
News • December 18, 2021
In an email sent on Friday, December 10, department head Stephen Heatley apologized to students.
News • December 19, 2021
Despite universities across the country moving online until mid-January or February, UBC has maintained that classes will be in person in the new year.
News • December 17, 2021
DECAP, a startup that created a device to safely remove and reuse needle caps from syringes, realized after piloting its first device that it had an opportunity to tackle needle cap waste.
News • December 17, 2021
An academic hold-based intermediary policy would give non-compliant students an opportunity to fix any issues.
News • December 16, 2021
Emails received through an FOI request showed donors and alumni calling for Bishop John O’Grady’s honorary degree to be revoked immediately following the beginning of the review.
News • December 15, 2021
Citing the Canadian government’s global travel advisory, Go Global announced this decision in an email to students on Wednesday night.
News • December 15, 2021
According to new data just released by the BCCDC, the UBC neighbourhood saw eight cases of COVID-19 from December 7 to December 13.
News • December 15, 2021
The website, an evolution from an initiative founded in 1997, offers students resources for food insecurity and preparing food across campus, among other essential services.
News • December 19, 2021
UBC Media Relations told The Ubyssey that the event had been postponed “pending a safety and security review, per UBC policies.”
News • December 13, 2021
The AMS Archery Club owes the AMS $12,000 in property damage fees due to damages incurred on the Great Hall Skywall, requiring the wall panels to be replaced.
News • December 13, 2021
The shuttles will be free to ride and could launch as early as winter 2022.
News • December 11, 2021
The UBC neighbourhood saw 8 cases of COVID-19 between December 3 and 9, according to new data released by the BC Centre for Disease Control.
News • December 11, 2021
In a now-deleted post on the UBC subreddit, some other students complained about the lack of ventilation and crowdedness of the centre’s testing rooms.