Semeru Gita Lestari and Arka Irfani are adventurers at heart. As biologists, they spent a lot of time observing and appreciating the nature of their native Indonesia on expeditions where it quickly became apparent that, even in the depths of the nation’s jungle, plastic had integrated itself into the natural environment.
Eby’s UBC roots put him in an ideal position to bring campus issues to the forefront of provincial politics — so what did having a local MLA running the province do for UBC?
I’ll be the first to say that growing old is a privilege — and an environmental liability. It’s a dark thought that I usually mull over under blankets and between bedroom walls. That was, until I caught UBC alumna Ann Marie Fleming’s sci-fi drama Can I Get a Witness? at this year's Vancouver International Film Festival.
By the time Nambuuza moved to Burnaby from Uganda at 16, she had already developed her skills in teaching coding to kids — her passion for computers was ignited at an early age and she said her mother encouraged her to turn this passion into an advocating force bigger than herself.
On Tuesday evening, the UBC Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) student group held a community meeting to plan student strikes in solidarity with Palestine.
Lindsay Gordon, who served as UBC’s chancellor from 2014 to 2020, passed away on August 26 and is being remembered for his philanthropic contributions.
Twelfth Night is William Shakespeare’s hilariously perplexing love triangle of three romantics navigating the woes of grief, unrequited love and the urges that fall in between.
University students have always been at the forefront of activism, whether through protest or media coverage. But how do universities and law enforcement balance students’ right to free speech and peaceful protest while prioritizing public safety for protesters and the protested-against alike?
Reporting and protesting hold common ground in finding value in amplifying voices. Anyone can share their voice, be a voice, initiate change — maybe taking action is being human.
When Hermida teaches visual journalism at UBC, he wants students to forgive themselves.
In many ways, Khatsahlano is one of the main arteries of the beating heart that is Vancouver’s summer arts and culture scene.
In 1994, Kris Mitchell of Smak, Gilles Zolty of Zolty Cracker and their respective bands got rejected from Music West. The festival was one of the loudest in Vancouver, at one point bringing together over 300 local acts.
When my mind can make out the peacock’s feathers vividly enough, the eyes almost wink, as if to acknowledge the grip that they have on the woes of maternal love.
Ambiguity, silence and the unsaid — for poet-translator and UBC creative writing MFA graduate Yilin Wang, these are themes that can tug at a writer’s inspiration to delve into their craft.
Jazz was never meant to be monothematic — the nature of the genre is experimental and giving. In their freshman album, Raagaverse is taking advantage of this malleability by infusing classical Hindustani vocality with the improv and complexity of jazz to pave their own silky and microtonal rhythm.