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Researchers from UBC and the Hakai Institute standing on the shore.

Sentinels of Change Alliance

Breaking down research silos to understand a shifting Salish Sea

Spotlight

Order of Canada medal

15 UBC community members among Order of Canada appointees

Contributions drive progress and bring communities together

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Rethinking Canada’s Immigration Strategy

Join industry and academic experts for this engaging debate at UBC Robson Square

Canada flag at the UBC Rose Garden

Apply to join UBC as a Canada Impact+ Research Chair

Researchers outside of Canada are encouraged to submit an expression of interest by Jan 15

Explore UBC

Kory Wilson (LLB ’99), BC First Nations Justice Council Chair and Executive Director of Indigenous Initiatives and Partnerships at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

Arts and Culture, People, Teaching and Learning

How Indigenous Allard Law alumni are helping decolonize the criminal justice system

Success will depend on the next generation of Indigenous lawyers and judges

Illustration of fire in the palm of a hand

Innovation, Research

Push forward with UBC: Revolutionizing wildfire preparedness

UBC is partnering with communities to learn to coexist with wildfires—so we can all become more resilient

Artist’s impression of a forming galaxy cluster in the early universe: radio jets from active galaxies are embedded in a hot intracluster atmosphere (red), illustrating a large thermal reservoir of gas in the nascent cluster.

Earliest, hottest galaxy cluster gas on record could change our cosmological models

Scorching cloud of gas threaded between clusters of galaxies is five times hotter than current models predict

Clare Wiznura

Research examines rage bait, and why digital anger can feel louder than real life

UBC Okanagan study explores how anger spreads differently online and in person

Dr. Greg Dipple working in the field.

Innovation, Research

UBC spin-off companies tackle climate change and drive economic growth

Research-based climate solutions are helping Canada compete in the global low-carbon economy

Person preparing a salad

How changing your diet could help save the world

Discover simple steps to reduce food emissions and help keep warming below 2°C

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.