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UBCV & UBCOMarch 31, 2025 | UBC Broadcast | Faculty & StaffMessage from the President: Provide your feedback on UBC’s emerging priorities by April 11
A message from Benoit-Antoine Bacon, President and Vice-ChancellorLast September, UBC launched a process to refresh its strategic plan in order to better define the university’s long-term vision and establish priorities and actions, largely focused on our academic and research mission, for the next three to five years.
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UBCVMarch 31, 2025 | UBC Bulletin | Faculty & StaffAppointment of Dr. Mark MacLachlan, Dean, Faculty of Science
I am pleased to announce that Dr. Mark MacLachlan has been appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Science for a five-year term, commencing April 1, 2025.Dr. MacLachlan, Professor of Chemistry and Canada Research Chair in Supramolecular Materials, has served as Dean pro tem for the Faculty of Science since January 1, 2024.
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UBCVMarch 27, 2025 | Feature story | Faculty & StaffStories of Partnership: hua foundation & UBC's Centre for Asian Canadian Research + Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies
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UBCVMarch 24, 2025 | Feature story | Faculty & StaffCelebrating disability and neurodiversity in the Faculty of Applied Science
The Faculty of Applied Science has interviewed faculty, staff and students with disabilities in order to raise awareness of disability and neurodiversity at the university.Read candid accounts from members of the UBC community who describe the challenges they have encountered around accessibility, discuss the need to eliminate stigma and showcase how their disability enhances the way they work.Learn more
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UBCOMarch 17, 2025 | Feature story | Faculty & StaffUBCO’s campus becomes a lab for connection and clean air
Two new projects funded by UBC Okanagan’s Campus as a Living Lab program are fostering student well-being and tackling airborne microplastics.To help first-year students struggle with loneliness and social isolation, Dr. Lauren Human, Associate Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences; Steve Brodrick, Associate Director, Residence Life; and Dr. Melissa Fedderson, Manager, Campus Wellness and Education are launching a research-driven initiative to examine how students can build meaningful relationships early in their university experience.
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UBCOMarch 6, 2025 | Feature story | Faculty & StaffBreaking down stereotypes to support women in engineering
Mentorship and promoting diversity are key to growing the number of women in the field, explains Engineering Professor Dr. Sumi Siddiqua“When someone tells me what I’m working on is a ‘man’s thing’ and I shouldn’t be doing it, I know that’s precisely what I should do,” explains Dr. Sumi Siddiqua, a professor at UBC Okanagan.Civil engineering is one of those things.