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Push Forward

Can we take the wild out of wildfire? See how UBC is revolutionizing wildfire preparedness.

Spotlight

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Student services over winter break

Holiday hours for student services at UBC Vancouver

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UBC Recreation Free Week

Try new fitness classes from January 5–11

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Apply to UBC

Application deadline January 15

Explore UBC

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Research, Teaching and Learning

Orcas and dolphins seen hunting together for the first time

This alliance could reshape our understanding of marine predators

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Innovation, Research

Groundbreaking research in 2025

15 research highlights that advanced knowledge, technology and real-world solutions

Dr. Magali Nehemy speaks to Cacique Domingos Mundurukú, local elder from Aldeia Bragança, Pará, in the Amazon

The Amazon’s ability to make its own rain matters more than ever

Dr. Magali Nehemy traces how a forest built to recycle rain is running on thinner margins

The Canoe asterism

Innovation, Research

Spot these three Salish constellations this winter

Dr. Shandin Pete shares Indigenous astronomical knowledge

UBC Thunderbirds Women's Soccer team celebrating their second-straight Canada West women's soccer championship

11 UBC athletic feats from 2025

A year of record-breaking performances and championship drama for UBC athletes

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COVID-19 vaccination significantly reduces risk to pregnant women and baby

UBC research provides critical data on vaccine efficacy for pregnant women, care providers and policymakers

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.