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UBCO researchers get to the bottom of non-invasive gut tests

Defining love through the lens of Arts

UBC recognized as one of BC's top employers in 2024

2024 President's awards for staff: Call for nominations

A message from Benoit-Antoine Bacon, President and Vice-Chancellor.Each year through the President’s staff awards, we recognize and celebrate staff members who demonstrate outstanding achievement and excellence within the UBC community, and who enable us to shape the future of research, teaching, and work.I invite you to nominate your staff colleagues for the 2024 awards. Nominations may be submitted by faculty, staff, and students. The deadline for nominations is 4pm on March 22.

Can your breath be used to detect lung cancer?

Killing more people every year than breast, colon and cervical cancer combined, lung cancer is the most-deadly form of cancer globally.Currently detected using an imaging test, such as a CT scan, lung cancer is typically confirmed by biopsy — whereby a sample of tissue or fluid from around a patient’s lungs is carefully extracted and examined under a microscope.But what if the world’s deadliest cancer could be quickly and easily detected using something as simple, and painless as a breath test?

Teaching in focus: Hanh Huynh

Hanh Huynh is an associate professor of teaching in the Faculty of Medicine. His teaching approach centres on the principle of 'less is more', providing students with the time and space to discover answers to their own questions.

Meet the winter recipients of the 2023 Partnership Recognition and Exploration Fund

This winter, Partnership Recognition and Exploration (PRE) funding was awarded to 15 collaborative community-university initiatives, showcasing the diverse ways in which communities are partnering with UBC students, faculty and staff in Vancouver and the Okanagan. Receiving up to $1,500 each, some of the most recently funded community-university projects are working to:

2024 University Killam Professors competition – call for nominations

The biennial University Killam Professor competition is open for the nomination of exceptional faculty members who are extraordinary teachers and researchers, leaders in their academic fields, and have received national and international recognition.A maximum of three professors may be appointed during each competition cycle. It is the highest honour that the University can confer on a faculty member. University Killam Professors are expected to contribute to the overall intellectual life of the university and to serve as academic ambassadors to UBC’s external community.

Global contest aims to predict peak bloom dates for cherry blossoms

Powerful answers to energy questions may be blowing in the wind

Launching a search for a new Vice-President, External Relations

I am writing to let you know that UBC has embarked on a search for a new Vice-President, External Relations. The current Vice-President, Robin Ciceri, has completed her term and will transition into retirement this summer.The Vice-President, External Relations, reports to the President and has responsibility for providing strategic leadership for university communications and issues management, government relations and community engagement, ceremonies and events, campus and community planning, as well as the Learning Exchange and Robson Square.

LFS Dean Rickey Yada moving to University of Alberta in October