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UBC Okanagan’s newest research clusters strive for a better world

The newest UBC Okanagan Eminence research clusters are utilizing their interdisciplinary expertise to tackle some of society’s most complex and urgent challenges.Clusters of Research Excellence are interdisciplinary teams of researchers that focus on addressing complicated societal problems beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries. Funded through the Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation’s Eminence Program over the next three years, the research clusters will address:

UBC Vancouver – Apply to the Sustainability Coordinator Program

 The Sustainability Coordinator Program provides faculty and staff with opportunities and resources to promote and implement sustainable practices at work at UBC Vancouver. It allows interested faculty and staff to work up to four paid hours per month (subject to supervisor approval). The program is aimed at enhancing sustainability awareness within your Faculty/unit, fostering relationships, and promoting sustainable practices across UBC through peer-to-peer learning and knowledge sharing.

Learn more about UBC’s faculty and staff (FAS) email migration to the cloud

With data security a priority at UBC, the university is taking action by preparing to migrate all faculty and staff email services (FASmail) from being hosted on-premises to the cloud platform Microsoft Exchange Online.  The migration will take place over the course of the next 12-18 months on a departmental basis, beginning with UBC IT and a number of pilot departments.

30-second bio: David Boyd

David is an associate professor within the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability. He invites you to imagine a world in which everyone is kind towards everyone else, including our non-human living relations.

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: