“Buddhism is more than a religion but a way of life and thinking, it involves in philosophy and a different way of looking at the world,” said Zhihan. “November 1 is a day for everyone to come and practice wisdom and compassion, and we will share with everyone.”
The UBC Undergraduate Research Opportunities Club (URO) is offering grants for undergrads to go present their research at a conference at Harvard University.
Even if international tuition rates were kept low, UBC won’t be better-governed or more diverse.
Researchers at the Samuels Lab at UBC have engineered “inside-out” plants which produce cellulose on their surface.
It was jarring but stuck to the theme of DYSTOPIA in a sense that it was not what it seemed. Generally, books are to be read and this practice rendered of using black marker rendered reading meaningless. This piece was unnamed but it was one of the strongest of them all.
“Harry Potter is this global phenomenon,” said Shriver. “I started to realise that there are a lot of connections that Vancouver specifically has with this phenomenon.”
“Dear Natalie, I’ve failed my first ever midterm. I’ve never failed at anything before."
The shift in Canadian government during the 1980s encouraged public-private partnerships and reduced subsidies for higher education, leading UBC down the road of private development and robbing students’ of their voice on campus.
The first T-Birds 5-on-5 of the year is kicking off with five athletes who are new to the Thunderbird scene.
Since UBC started charging international students higher tuition in the mid-1980s, they've followed a crude market-based logic to a tee. “Dig a little deeper,” one administrator advised prospective students.
A recent study has found that aboriginal youth are being incarcerated at a higher rate than non-aboriginal youth, even when other factors that might place the youth at higher risk were controlled for.
UBC has no idea what they'll be spending the increased revenue from tuition hikes on. They have no way of measuring what impacts the increases will have on the student body. And they have no plans to consult with students about whether or not the fees should go through. All in all, you should be pretty angry.
In a recent study published in the Nature, UBC researcher Michele Koppes and her team compared glaciers in northern Patagonia and in the western Antarctic Peninsula.
In the middle of campus there’s a small, unremarkable, concrete building with one locked glass door on its northwest corner labeled ‘Clean Energy Research Centre’. You’d never guess it’s home to one of Canada’s largest fuel-cell research groups, working internationally with major industry and science partners to bring fuel cell technologies to market.
The arts and science faculties were one faculty until 1953, said Associate Dean of Science in Student Services. Once they separated, the Faculty of Science still kept the requirement that science students must take a minimum number of arts credits.