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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UBC political science professor Yves Tiberghien

V20 program gives students access to the world’s top policy-making circles

Connecting government leaders and business innovators with scholars and students to drive global change is the work of UBC political science professor Yves Tiberghien and the solutions-focused, multidisciplinary Vision 20 Initiative (V20).

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International Hip Health Day poster

Orthopaedics: Designing local programs for worldwide roll-out

UBC is already on the cutting-edge of global health, particularly in the areas of health policy, medical sciences and Indigenous health, as well as social, economic and environmental dimensions. Under the leadership of Dr. Kishore Mulpuri, the Department of Orthopaedics is building “global” into...

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UBC Professor Leonard Foster

Harnessing cloud computing for a better COVID-19 vaccine faster

In a computer science-meets-biochem win, UBC Professor Leonard Foster is using Microsoft cloud computing power to develop a better COVID-19 vaccine, with fewer negative side effects, in just a few months.

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DNA sequencing at an ETH-I workshop

In our DNA: Ethiopians are taking African genomic research into their own hands

It started, like many great things do, with a simple conversation. Dr. Corey Nislow and Jamal Kurtu were talking one day back in 2018 about public health – in particular, capacity building for genetic research around the world. “I have molecular biology experience and Jamal has a long history with...

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Mukuru, east of Nairobi

Jane Weru – Building bridges and catching dreams

I met Jane Weru for the first time in the summer of 2020, when the world was engulfed by the COVID-19 crisis. I was planning my autumn urban resilience course, offered though the UBC Sauder School of Business’ Collaborative for Urban Resilience and Effectiveness (CURE) , and looking for resilience...

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