Halloween — like Vine — may officially be over, but science is carries on never sleeping. Here are a few things UBC researchers have done while you were out trick-or-treating in your glorious, last-minute, broke-university-student-centric costumes.
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The AMS, Access and Diversity, and Campus and Community Planning (CCP) are teaming up to plan an accessibility shuttle service for central campus. This program aims to make the pedestrian core safer and more accessible for those with disabilities.
"Uber has been running an aggressive and prolonged public lobbying campaign urging the provincial government and the City of Vancouver to allow them to operate. They have significant resources and it shows."
This April, three external reviewers hired by the university conducted a thorough review of everything falling remotely under the umbrella of UBC Campus Security. An in-depth look at Campus Security had not been done in many years.
The Graduate Student Society (GSS) has modified UBC’s active witnessing training to create a new active bystander program, designed to cater more towards specific graduate student situations and use a peer-to-peer model.
A 2012 Seismic Risk Assessment Report dubbed 28 buildings on campus “very high risk” and 12 “high risk” — assessments that included a note of “loss of life probable” should such a seismic event occur, something the new plan hopes to partially remedy.
High school students will soon be required to write two provincial exams instead of five as a part of a new curriculum being instituted in British Columbia. UBC said this change will probably not have a major impact on admissions.
At the start of every semester, UBC Recreation offers free instructor-led courses to students and other members of the campus community. One of our resident columnist here at The Ubyssey decided to take on some of the classes and write about them.
According to Devon Campbell, the environmental committee leader of the VOC, the proposed resort would severely impact mountain goat and deer habitats, increase traffic on the Whistler highway and deplete up to 22 per cent of the groundwater.
You probably know a student who has taken study drugs to cram at least once. Maybe you have taken them yourself. Is it cheating? They can energize and boost motivation, but won’t help you learn better.
February is heart health month. So what do you need to know about heart health? As the central organ in our circulatory system, the heart is vital to our overall health and nearly everything that that goes on in our bodies.
The UBC Board of Governors (BoG) appears to be ignoring the advice of its own lawyers on the need to assess the investment risks linked to climate change and the transition to low carbon energy systems.
UBC offers a variety of services related to sexual health, including counselling, medical assistance and informative resources, and a number of groups are here to represent and offer support related so gender and sexuality.
The BC Human Rights Tribunal has made a decision to accept the case of Lorna June McCue, who argues that UBC's mandate for scholars to publish in academic journals runs counter to indigenous oral traditions.
UBC does well in terms of financial aid to domestic students partly because of Policy 72, which states that no current domestic student should be forced to stop their studies due to financial constraints. However, education about finances is lacking.
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