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Black Opportunity Fund partners with UBC to empower next generation of Black leaders
Black Opportunity Fund and UBC have announced a new partnership to empower Black Canadian students to achieve their educational goals and career aspirations.
UBC Faculty of Medicine Response to the TRC Calls to Action Launch
Dermot Kelleher, Dean Faculty of Medicine and Vice-President, Health and Santa J. Ono, UBC President and Vice-Chancellor, invite you to join us as we launch […]
Statement on the Missing Children of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools
Read the President’s Statement on the Missing Children of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools.
Climate activists Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis join UBC
World-renowned climate activists and journalists Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis are joining the faculty at the University of British Columbia’s department of geography.
New Office of Indigenous Strategic Initiatives supports implementation of UBC’s Indigenous Strategic Plan
UBC has launched a new Office of Indigenous Strategic Initiatives (OISI) to coordinate the implementation of UBC’s 2020 Indigenous Strategic Plan (ISP) on both UBC campuses.
Community-University Liaison Initiative
We are excited to announce that we have received funding for a 2-year pilot staff position of Engagement Strategist that will link UBC migration researchers from across faculties with practitioners and organizations in the BC settlement sector.
Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health
The Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health is a single coordinating point for Indigenous health initiatives within UBC and acts as a contact for communities and organizations external to UBC. The Centre is dedicated to advancing Indigenous people’s health through education, innovative thinking, research, and traditional practice.
UBC Learning Circle
The UBC Learning Circle is a partnership between the Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health and the First Nations Health Authority created to provide educational and informational opportunities to health care workers and professionals in First Nations communities.
Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm
The Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm is a research centre and local-to-global food hub working towards a more sustainable, food-secure future. The living laboratory is committed to finding solutions to local and global challenges facing food systems sustainability.
Teacher Education Community Field Experience
The community field experience is guided by research and based on beliefs that teacher candidates, community partners and students all benefit. The key purpose of the community field experience is for teacher candidates to experience teaching and learning in a new context that provides a more holistic view of teaching and enhances the teacher candidate’s […]
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
The School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) acts as an interdisciplinary, collaborative hub that contributes to developing policies and solutions to complex global and local issues. The school’s public policy research and creative activity informs their teaching and focuses on discovery and innovation.
Sauder d.studio
The Sauder d.studio is an emerging centre of praxis to advance the practice of Strategic Design. Based at the UBC Sauder School of Business, the d.studio leads Strategic Design projects to build organizational capacity for innovation and tackle tough, systemic problems.
Pharm Sci Alumni Agent of Change Award
Each year, the UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Alumni Agent of Change Award recognizes alumni for remarkable achievements in a clinical, community, education or research field that are having local, national or global impact.
Pharmacists Clinics & Partner Appointments
The Pharmacists Clinic at the UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences is Canada’s first university-affiliated, licensed, pharmacist-led patient care clinic. The Pharmacists Clinic provides the highest possible standard of health consultation services to patients, offers learning opportunities for health professionals and students alike, and are a living laboratory that supports health care research and evaluation.
Museum of Anthropology
MOA’s exhibitions and programs emphasize artistic diversity and the links between art, community and the contemporary social and political context in which youth, artists and communities are communicating their cultural traditions.
Indigenous Community Legal Clinic
The Indigenous Community Legal Clinic is located in the Downtown Eastside on traditional, ancestral, and unceded Coast Salish territories and exists for two purposes: first, to provide free legal services to the Indigenous community and second, to provide legal education to Allard School of Law students. By participating in the ICLC program, students interested in advocacy, social justice and Indigenous peoples […]
Science 101
Science 101 is a four-month, non-credit, barrier free course offered to residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and other inner-city communities. The program provides an introductory Science education to adults who have historically had difficulty accessing university.
Humanities 101
The Humanities 101 Community Programme (fondly known as “Hum”) offers four non-credit, university-level courses at UBC for people living in the Downtown Eastside, Downtown South (DTES/South) and surrounding areas who have a lust for learning—especially those whose economic situation, academic experience, financial and social well-being are compromised.
Human Early Learning Partnership
The Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary research network, based at the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. HELP’s unique partnership brings together many scientific viewpoints to address complex early child development (ECD) issues.
Forests And Communities In Transition
Forests and Communities in Transition (FACT) includes the FACT Lab and the FACT Network. FACT is a University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry initiative dedicated to research, dialogue and knowledge exchange.
Faraday Science Show
The Faraday Show is UBC’s annual science lecture, designed for children, presented by UBC Physics & Astronomy.
Ethnographic Field School
The Urban Ethnographic Field School is a six-week, six-credit course offered by the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology. The UEFS offers students the opportunity to gain hands-on experience working with community organizations while learning ethnographic research skills.
Dadaab Refugee Teacher Education Program
The University of British Columbia and Moi University (Eldoret, Kenya) have partnered to offer a Moi Diploma in Secondary Teacher Education. In addition to the university diploma program, they have an ongoing long-term research project around living, learning, and teaching in the camps, led by faculty members in the Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy.
CREST.BD
The Collaborative RESearch Team to study psychosocial issues in Bipolar Disorder (CREST.BD) is a multidisciplinary collaborative network of researchers, people living with bipolar disorder, healthcare providers, and family members and supporters.
City Studio
CityStudio Vancouver is an innovation hub that brings together city staff, students, faculty and community to co-create experimental projects that make Vancouver more sustainable, liveable, joyful, and inclusive.
Centre for Hip Health and Mobility
The Centre for Hip Health and Mobility (CHHM) is a University of British Columbia affiliated, internationally recognized research centre focused on developing novel strategies that promote physically active choices that positively influence mobility.
Botanical Gardens Public Programs
The mission of UBC Botanical Garden is to assemble, curate, and maintain a documented living collection of temperate plants for the purposes of education, research, conservation, community outreach, and public display. A key part of the University’s biodiversity collections, the Botanical Garden provides resources to researchers, students and the public that reach far beyond its […]
Beaty Biodiversity Museum Public Programs
The Beaty Biodiversity Museum inspires an understanding of biodiversity, its origins, and importance to humans through collections-based research, education, exhibitions, and community engagement.
Asian Canadian Community Engagement Initiative
ACCE strives to raise the University’s awareness and understanding of the significant opportunities presented by UBC’s effective engagement with Asian Canadian communities. UBC Vancouver is uniquely situated, geographically and in terms of its scholarly and cultural capital, to create and foster robust relationships with local Asian Canadian communities.
Indigenous Forestry Initiatives
For over 20 years, the Faculty of Forestry has been working towards strengthening the relationships between the Faculty, Indigenous communities and potential partners to help solve challenges associated with the conservation and management of natural resources. The Faculty of Forestry provides exceptional opportunities for Aboriginal students through innovative programs, engaging material and award winning faculty.
Robson Square Conference Centre
Robson Square is home to a wide range of programs from UBC Extended Learning, UBC Sauder School of Business, and entrepreneurship@UBC. They offer flexible meeting, conference, lab, and theatre space to suit your needs for your next event.
University-Industry Liaison Office
The University-Industry Liaison Office enables research and innovation partnerships with industry, entrepreneurs, government and non-profit organizations.
The National Forum on Anti-Asian Racism
On June 10–11, 2021, join the National Forum on Anti-Asian Racism and contribute to crucial discussions. To address it, we must examine anti-Asian racism within the broader context of racism against Indigenous, Black and other racialized communities.
Desire to help fellow Indigenous students leads to prestigious award for new graduate
UBCO master’s student Sandra Fox, Indigenous Community Liaison, is being recognized with the Governor General’s Gold Medal for her research on Indigenous identity.
President’s Statement on the Missing Children of the Kamloops Indian Residential School
Read the President’s Statement on the Missing Children of the Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Where Are All The Black People? Underrepresentation In The Academy
The purpose of this speaker series is to foreground Black voices in fields where Blackness is particularly underrepresented, and provide actionable and measurable strategies to UBC […]
UBC Connects: “Pluralism: Strengthening respect for diversity”
Maaza Mengiste is a novelist and essayist whose work examines the individual lives at stake during migration, war and exile. This virtual Masterclass connects […]