• UBC electric car first to beetle across Canada.

    UBC electric car first to beetle across Canada

    An electric-powered 1972 Volkswagen Beetle will be the first electric car to travel across Canada.

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  • Catherine Rawn is teaching them the fundamentals of academic success. Photo: Martin Dee

    Train your brain

    Catherine Rawn is teaching young learners the fundamentals of academic success.

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  • UBC Okanagan campus is beginning its sixth year. Photo: Stephanie Tracey

    Five years of growth for Okanagan campus

    Since opening in 2005, UBC’s Okanagan campus has grown from 3,500 students to well over 6,000, including more than 500 graduate students.

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  • Nancy Vertel uses a lot of show and tell with young patients. Photo: Martin Dee

    Dentistry adds specialties

    Nancy Vertel remembers the exact moment she decided to specialize as a pediatric dentist.

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  • Jayne Booth helps newcomers relocating to Vancouver. Photo: Martin Dee

    New office welcomes recruits to UBC

    At a time when relationships are built online, there’s one office on campus that insists on welcoming newcomers face-to-face.

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  • Marilyn Chapman hopes full-day kindergarten will be more playful and stimulating. Photo: Martin Dee

    Kids to put in a full day

    Playing and inquiry are on the agenda for kindergarteners this September.

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  • Nutritional Science grad Roberta Wozniak (right) bonded with Pascasie and seven-month-old Chelsea. Photo: courtesy Roberta Wozniak

    Understanding food security

    It’s one thing for a UBC student to sit in a lecture hall and take notes on food security.

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  • A new course will help students understand how the climate may change in their lifetimes. Photo: Jamie Myers, Forestry

    Climate change: seeing is believing

    When it comes to climate change, UBC Prof. Stephen Sheppard knows that pictures speak much louder than words.

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  • Ting Pu had never seen a real forest before coming to UBC on an exchange. Photo: Martin Dee

    A split degree

    Ting Pu will be spending her last year at UBC sealed in a lab, working with the temperamental DNA of fungus.

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  • Rendering of Health Sciences Centre on UBC’s Okanagan campus.

    Admissions begin for Southern Medical Program

    The doors to UBC’s new Southern Medical Program (SMP) are opening.

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  • The BC Guidelines iPhone app is part of Dr. Kendall Ho’s vision of putting electronic tools in the hands of health professionals.

    Yet another use for the iPhone

    Dr. Kendall Ho helped put BC Guidelines on iPhone and in the hands of physicians.

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