Cinematic Monsters of Asia, a new course taught by assistant professor Dr. Ji-yoon An, made its debut in the department of Asian studies this semester.
Photographer and UBC alum Cassidy Chen has already shot shows at Paris Fashion Week and made Forbes' 30 Under 30 list, but she isn't planning on slowing down anytime soon.
Categorizing Chopping Spree, a Vancouver band with roots at UBC, is difficult. Their new album, however, focuses on transcribing jazz onto Vancouver's underground music scene — and people can't get enough of it.
It’s a regular afternoon for Nazreen Cameron as she prepares roti and chicken curry in her kitchen, when she gets the sudden urge to check her phone. She sees multiple missed messages alerting her she has received an award at UBC and asks her son for confirmation, assuming it to be a scam. “No, Mom,” he reassures her. “You got the award. $5,000.”
Emily Tang has loved governance since long before she got involved with UBC’s Graduate Student Society. She thinks her passion started in elementary school, when she was involved in student council. But politics aren't everything to the master’s student.
Carla Gillis and her sister Lynette have always been in a band. In high school, it was Plumtree: a youthful collision of the Gillis sisters’ metal influence and their classmates’ pop sensibilities.
A stifling, often ignored, silence tends to surround conversations on menstrual care.
Dr. John Paul “JP” Catungal recalls the moment he was first approached by a stranger on the topic of his own Queerness.
In the past two years, if you’ve attended events by UBC Raves or Halloween nights at the Pit, you might have danced to beats by Nicole Pan, a third-year science student who studies biology, chemistry, computer science and commerce — and DJs on the side.
Dr. Mila Zuo wasn’t always going to study film — but after taking a pornography course at UC Berkeley, she was hooked.
“I realized my deep passion was the connection of the field of health psychology, where we're trying to explore the impact of our behaviours, our stress levels, on the underlying physiological mechanisms that predict disease,” said Dr. Eli Puterman.
Since she was young, textile arts and community have played an important role in Serena Kealy’s life.
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.
The drive to embody the opposite mentality of the prep schools Dr. Yves Tiberghien experienced as a student in France motivated him to leverage compassion and innovative instruction techniques in his teaching to encourage curiosity and creativity, borrowing from his adventures around the world and the lived experiences he observed along the way.
After moving to Canada from Mexico, bioinformatics PhD student Erick Navarro realized he missed dancing salsa at parties and family gatherings.
As a kid, Igor Drljača could never get through the New Year’s Eve screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey that a local Toronto television station would play before midnight in the 90s.
Kamakshi Anand remembers in ninth grade thinking, “Oh, this is a thing people do — they write their thoughts online.”
For fourth-year food, nutrition and health student and AMS Food Bank coordinator Sophie Co, food insecurity lies at the centre of her academics and advocacy.
Having had little exposure to the language, Hammerly studied it first as a learner, not a linguist. He cherished the chance to connect with his culture and language. He mentioned learning Ojibwe was crucial to “making myself whole, because it’s just a part of who I am.”
Entering the throes of the second term and starting a new class can be daunting — especially one you’re running.
