Vaccinating the world against COVID-19: Global experts weigh in on how to even the scales between haves and have-nots

After a difficult start in spring 2021, high-income countries are seeing their citizens vaccinated against the deadly COVID-19 virus in huge numbers. Canada, for example, has fully-vaccinated some 55 percent of the country, leading the world in vaccine coverage, while in the U.S., a total of 56...

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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...

  • Global Capacity Development
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  • Students as Global Citizens
  • UBC as a Global Actor

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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Emeritus College and European partners share healthy aging insights at Oct. 1 webinar

Keeping fit and feeling well into the post-retirement years is a hot topic these days. Nearly 10 percent of the world’s population is 65 or older , according to the United Nations, and that is projected to rise to 16 percent – or one in six people – by 2050. So as we are living longer, how do we...

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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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  • Students as Global Citizens

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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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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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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  • UBC as a Global Actor

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 partners with India’s Manipal Academy of Higher Education to address issues of global relevance

Drawing on shared strengths, UBC and Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) in Manipal, India signed a partnership agreement May 11 to broaden and deepen existing academic and research collaborations. With a focus in public and global health, researchers from both institutions will work...

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