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Updated: Oct. 11, 2019 – 8:30 AM PDT

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Colour our collections

UBC Library launches new digital colouring book series

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Bike to Work (+ School) Week rolls out for fall

October 21–27

Join the UBC community on your bike

Find election day information for the UBC community

Here’s how to vote in the October 21 federal election

Reconciliation Pole

Have your say on UBC’s Indigenous Strategic Action Plan

Share your thoughts and view the draft plan

Explore UBC

Nanofibre

Innovation, Research

UBC lab spins nanofibre ‘gold’ from waste fabrics

Researchers have developed a way to recycle textile scraps into useful products

Sheila Winder

People, Teaching and Learning

UBC Elder Scholar and Ageless Pursuits courses engage octogenarian

Sheila Winder enjoys the mental stimulation of classes from architecture to the classics

Heather Gainforth

People, Research

Improving the lives of people living with spinal cord injury

UBC Okanagan professor works with Spinal Cord Injury BC to improve health outcomes

Host of This Week at UBC

This Week at UBC

What’s happening on the Vancouver campus from October 20 to 26

Glowing dots

Innovation, Research

How smartphones and glowing dots could revolutionize medical tests

UBC chemist is using light to develop inexpensive, portable medical tests

Darren Touch

People of UBC: Darren Touch

Public Policy and Global Affairs alumnus; global citizen and community advocate