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Marquee

Reducing single-use cups

UBC Vancouver is ditching disposable cups and plastic food ware and encouraging reusable options

Spotlight

What to expect for your first finals season

Tips from an alumnus on what to bring to exams

Commemorating the École Polytechnique massacre

Commemorating the École Polytechnique massacre

Beam of Light Ceremony marks the 30th anniversary memorial with a vigil at UBC

Exhibition celebrates Vancouver-based John Fluevog shoes

Come along to the 50 Years of Sole exhibition, running until December 24

Explore UBC

Kaylee Byers

Community, Research

Rat race! How pest control can backfire

A scientific approach to managing rat infestations

Technology

People, Research

Cyber patients are training the world’s future doctors

How a made-at-UBC technology could shape the future of medical education

Shelley Robinson

People of UBC: Shelley Robinson

Top Chef Canada competitor, Chopped Canada champion. Surfer, skier, cookbook author. Loves camper vans.

Host of This Week at UBC

This Week at UBC

What’s happening on the Vancouver campus from December 1 to 7

exercise

Teaching and Learning

How to stay active without sacrificing study time

Workout moves you can do on the spot

Air

Canadians dying at a higher rate in areas with more air pollution

Study found air pollution associated with increased mortality even at levels below air-quality guidelines