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A woman in a lab coat looks through a microscope in a 1948 UBC Faculty of Medicine archival photo.

Changemaking Women in the Faculty of Medicine

Explore our history of remarkable researchers, clinicians and educators

Spotlight

Blueberry pancakes

Attend UBC’s Blueberry Fest from July 23–25

Event includes pop-up market, cooking demos and live music

Chanreet Bassi in her hockey gear.

A Legacy in the making: A Thunderbird drafted into the PWHL

Chanreet Bassi becomes first South Asian athlete in the Professional Women’s Hockey League

Group of people doing yoga outdoors.

Yoga on the Mall

Join UBC Inspired for weekly outdoor yoga sessions on campus

Explore UBC

Person fanning themself to cool down from heat.

How to cool communities in the face of rising heat

Experts explain how smarter design and nature-based solutions can keep Canadians cool, safe and healthy

UBC doctoral student Bianca Iulianella Phillips prepares soil samples for DNA testing.

Innovation, Research

Bacterial fingerprints in soil show where copper is buried

New technique could help source critical minerals vital for green transition

Erin Postlethwaite, PET Technologist, and Navjit Jabal, PET/CT Technologist, guide a patient through a PET/CT scan at BC Cancer – Vancouver.

Innovation, Research

BC Cancer and UBC roll out the fastest PET/CT scanner in Canada

Next generation machine will improve diagnostics and further the development of novel imaging agents

Community, Innovation

Talk Canadian to me: Dictionary of Canadianisms goes mobile

Explore over 14,500 Canadianisms—celebrating how we speak, coast to coast

Inside Xwi7xwa Library

Campus, Community, People

Xwi7xwa Library hires first archivist

Jesse Carson will support the library’s commitment to Indigenous-led, decolonizing approaches to stewardship

Person on their laptop looking focused.

BC residents need more support navigating legal information

New report highlights the challenges residents face when looking to access public legal education

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.