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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Vie for a chance to take your research abroad

Applications for Mitacs Globalink Research Award program due Dec. 1 International research collaborations are more important than ever, says Mitacs , a national non-profit offering training programs and research funding to Canadian universities. Mitacs is supporting researchers to collaborate on...

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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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UBC Vancouver Summer Program debuts bright new student-centric website

UBC Vancouver Summer Program (VSP) just unveiled its splashy new website designed to attract overseas students and make it easier to connect and find information quickly. Launched Aug. 16, the new site is visually inviting, friendly and scannable, as well as video- and photo-driven. “The goal is to...

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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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A message to the UBC community about the situation in Afghanistan

Many in the university community have been watching with concern as the situation in Afghanistan continues to evolve. I can understand that for many of our faculty, students, staff and alumni with ties to Afghanistan, this must be a particularly challenging time. We encourage UBC students , faculty...

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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...

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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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