In person at last: UBC Global Seminar students meet in 'real time'

The ACAM 390A Food and the Heritage of Chinese Migrations class gathered over Malaysian food face-to-face for the first time after meeting online for the Go Global Virtual Global Seminar . While the program ran 100% virtually over the summer, the students made new friends and created thoughtful...

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UBC Emeritus College General Meeting in Jack Poole Hall, 2018

Meet UBC Emeritus College, where retirees change the world

Pioneer in geriatric medicine. Canada’s foremost probability theory expert. A distinguished recording artist. These are just a few of the luminaries affiliated with UBC Emeritus College . Formerly the UBC Association of Professors Emeriti and based on the Vancouver campus, UBC Emeritus College is a...

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Socially distanced volleyball at UBC St. Johns College

Spotlight: Demet Kirmizibayrak, pandemic lock-down hero

It seems improvisation is another thing St. John’s College students have in common besides being international graduate students living together on the UBC Vancouver campus. After COVID-19 lockdowns swept through, shuttering the campus in April 2020, the 165 St. John’s students from 40 countries...

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photo: @kindandcurious on Unsplash

Finding hope in the face of hopelessness

How do you find hope in the face of violence, tragedy and crushing adversity? How do you stay optimistic? How do you keep fighting when the odds are against you? Peace activist, scholar and former political prisoner Dr. Peter Biar Ajak shared his thoughts, relaying the circumstances and his...

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Train tracks at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland

Spotlight: Dr. Bozena Karwowska

No matter how you look at it, the Holocaust is hard. It’s deeply disturbing. Examining the history of it can traumatize, alienate and surface obsessive tendencies. It’s also a must, says Dr. Bozena Karwowska , advisor and chair of UBC’s Modern European Studies Program, as well as professor of...

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Student residences at UCA’s new campus at Khorog, Tajikstan, in Central Asia’s rugged Pamir Mountains

From the ground up: helping build a new university’s undergrad program in Central Asia

It’s not often academics get the chance to create a brand new degree program for a brand new university. That was both the opportunity and challenge when UBC signed an international cooperation agreement with the just-opened University of Central Asia (UCA) in 2017. The task: developing curriculum...

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Grace Nosek teen eco-fantasy series, Ava of the Gaia - photo: David Markwei

Grace Nosek: Building a bright future one meme at a time

Here’s why Grace Nosek wrote young-adult “eco-feminist thrillers” to heat up climate activism (and yes, they are Twilight -inspired): “You cannot build to something beautiful from a place of burnout and defensiveness and unhappiness. Climate activism can be about the things we love already. It...

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One Girl Can scholarship student, Rahma, participates in a goal-setting workshop

Turning small-business dreams into livelihoods in Kenya and Nairobi

Non-profit One Girl Can is partnering with UBC’s Sauder School of Business flagship program to train young African women in launching their own entrepreneurial enterprises.

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MII-STEM teachers in training in Southeast Asia

Improving STEM teacher ed in Southeast Asia

How do you prepare students for cutting-edge jobs when you need more qualified teachers? That’s the quandary UBC’s Samia Khan is meeting head-on. The Faculty of Education associate professor is innovating with global partners to increase the supply of highly skilled science, technology, engineering...

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UBC Language Sciences Institute members

Linguistics experts, partners take on global issues of today

Convening interdisciplinary researchers to reimagine public discourse and address “grand challenges” affecting equity, diversity and inclusion, the Language Sciences Institute is now one of just three organizations approved by UBC’s Global Research Excellence Institute.

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