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Putting community, students and research on the same track

UBC Okanagan explores new insights into spinal cord injury recovery and performance

Spotlight

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UBC Grad is around the corner

Here’s everything you need to know

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Participate in Free Week

From Tuesday May 20 to Monday May 26

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2025 Partnership Recognition and Exploration Fund

Find out how to apply

Explore UBC

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People, Teaching and Learning

What’s a healthy amount of sleep?

It differs from one country to another

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People, Research, Teaching and Learning

Are consumer star ratings what they seem?

Consumers tend to overestimate the quality of products with star ratings

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Innovation, Research

Next-gen technology helps high-rises ride out earthquakes

UBC researchers have developed a new structural system that helps high-rise buildings resist major earthquakes

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Innovation, People, Teaching and Learning

Test your knowledge of Asian-Canadian trailblazers

Take the quiz

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People, Research

Certain bacteria in breast tumour environments may fuel cancer spread

Find out more about what UBC Faculty of Medicine and BC Cancer have discovered

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People, Teaching and Learning

The resilient brain

The journey from birth to old age

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.