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Sofia Knopf and Emily Bogusz co-founded a student club at UBC Okanagan to help their peers navigate grief, support one another and build resilience.

Students redefine grief with courage, compassion and resilience

Student club at UBC Okanagan inspires conversations about what it means to show up for others

Spotlight

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Hear the Voices Shaping Health Equity

Event spotlights the work of public scholars, researchers and community innovators

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UBC recognized as one of BC’s Top Employers in 2026

Learn the three reasons why

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Celebrate Black History Month

Find events that recognize and celebrate Black history and Black achievement

Explore UBC

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Arts and Culture

What to read during Black History Month and beyond

Celebrate Black voices and stories with these recommended reads from eight Black scholars at UBC

Dr. Michael Audain, Dr. Anthony Yurkovich, Nancy Yurkovich, Tom Johnson, Dr. Lori Daniels, Dr. Shelina Babul, Dr. Zongjie (Daniel) Wang, Dr. Poul Sorensen, Rian Gauvreau, and Associate Vice President, Alumni & alumni UBC Executive Director Natalie Cook Zywicki. Photo by Edward Chang.

Community, People

Get to know the 2025 alumni UBC achievement awards recipients

Learn more about the nine inspiring members of the UBC community

Veronica Tyrell

People, Research

Learn more about Black History Month and Midwifery

Black midwives have long played essential roles in supporting pregnancy, birth and postpartum care

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Time-restricted eating shows promise for overweight people living with Crohn’s

Researchers find reduction in symptoms, and improvements in body composition despite stable caloric intake

Dr. Jemima Pierre (Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice), Dr. Peter James Hudson (Department of Geography) and Dr. Crystal Sheffield (Department of History).

Arts and Culture, Research

How UBC Arts Scholars are advancing Black Studies

UBC Arts faculty members reflect on how the field continues to shape their scholarship today

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Innovation, Research

Push forward with UBC: Developing AI responsibly in health care

UBC is developing AI to speed up the path to treatment, so patients get the care they need, faster

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.