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UBC Professors Dr. Lori Brotto and Dr. Saraswathi Vedam walking down a hospital hallway.

Gender equity in health care

UBC researchers are reshaping care for women, gender-diverse and marginalized people

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UBC Farm farmers’ markets are back

Visit a market on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays

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June is Pride Month

Find events and resources to celebrate and support UBC’s 2SLGBTQIA+ community

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UBC Connects at Robson Square: ‘All the Lonely People’

Join a panel of UBC researchers to explore the roots and realities of social isolation

Explore UBC

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Innovation, Research

When is period pain not normal?

UBC team worked with youth to create a website that tackles stigma

The Centre for Feminist Legal Studies' Marlee Kline Room hosts a lending library with a large collection of books, journals and other materials that focus on critically examining law and society from feminist and anti-oppressive perspectives.

Community, Innovation, Research

How the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies empowers students and drives change

Law students and professors share the impact of the work

Patient in hospital bed

Innovation, Research

Rapid bedside test predicts sepsis with over 90 per cent accuracy

Scientists develop a blood test and portable device that can determine the onset of sepsis faster

Brendan Liaw with Ken Jennings, Jeopardy! host

Arts and Culture, People

Jeopardy!’ champ and UBC alum Brendan Liaw on his game show experience

Liaw won three consecutive games on the iconic trivia competition

UBCO’s Dr. Hadi Mohammadi holds his latest innovation—a manufactured heart valve that has just been put through its paces

Innovation, Research

Researchers pioneer advanced mechanical heart valve

Homegrown innovation offers improved performance and longevity for patients

Composite features anatomical illustrations from medieval Islamic medical manuscripts, including depictions of the vascular and nervous systems by Persian scholars such as Ibn Sina and Mansur ibn Ilyas, revealing an early and remarkably detailed understanding of human physiology.

Arts and Culture, Research

Expand your mind through ancient brain science

Psychology professor Dr. Tareq Yousef uses neuroanatomy to explain equity in education

We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.