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Dr. Dean Johnston

Virtual care on the front lines

Real-Time Virtual Support will help save lives and transform health care for remote communities

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Illustration of a Tyrannosaurus rex with a green background

Visit the new exhibit at Pacific Museum of Earth

Learn more about dinosaurs at the ‘Life at the Edge’

Person holding Paris Olympic book in a stadium

Thunderbirds set to chase Olympic glory in Paris

More than two dozen UBC Thunderbirds past and present will take part in the games

Artwork by Aaniya Asrani

Attend the ‘Weaving Belonging’ workshop and exhibit

Artist Aaniya Asrani explores our relationship to belonging on the unceded territories

Explore UBC

Image for of soccer superstar Christian Ronaldo on a shirt

Arts and Culture, Research, Teaching and Learning

UBCO professor brings the beautiful game back into the classroom

Phenomenon of soccer, and its superstars, to be kicked around in sociology course

Concert scene

How to protect your hearing at summer concerts

Dr. Navid Shahnaz discusses the impact loud music can have on our hearing

Marathon athlete Malindi Elmore running on the tracks

Why the 2024 Paris Olympics are pivotal for gender equity in amateur sports

Olympic and Paralympic initiatives can help advance sports at lower levels—but there’s more to be done

Earth is surrounded by a giant magnetic bubble called the magnetosphere

Arts and Culture, Community, People

Fluxgate magnetometers go back to the future

UBC geophysicist helps set the groundwork for a new generation of sensors

Solar system features eight planets, seen in this artist’s diagram

What exactly is a planet?

Scientists propose improved definition that require planets to be round bodies which orbit our sun

Collage of Dr. Azim Sharif, Dr. Jiaying Zhao, Dr. Elizabeth Dunn, Dr. Karen Bakker and Dr. Suzanne Simard

UBC researchers reveal hidden worlds in 5 TED Talks

Uncover secrets about motivation, hard work, happiness, nature and communication

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.