Updates, news and stories
A selection of updates, news and stories from across the university.
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UBCV25 January, 2021 | Announcement | Faculty & Staff
National Academy Sciences awards Patrick Keeling with Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal
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UBCO25 January, 2021 | Media release | Faculty & Staff
Street homeless people learn to ‘perform’ to obtain life-sustaining resources
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UBCV & UBCO25 January, 2021 | UBC Bulletin | Faculty & Staff
Claiming home office expenses — updated CRA guidance
Since March 2020, many faculty and staff have been working from home as a result of UBC’s response to COVID-19.
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UBCV25 January, 2021 | Announcement | Faculty & Staff
Kevin Leyton-Brown named 2020 Association of Computing Machinery Fellow for lifetime achievements
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UBCV25 January, 2021 | 30-second bio | Faculty & Staff
30-second bio: Meghan MacGillivray
Meet Meghan: The best part of her job is telling Indigenous applicants they have been accepted into the Doctor of Medicine program and are going to become doctors.
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UBCV & UBCO25 January, 2021 | Announcement | Faculty & Staff
Apply for entrepreneurship@UBC venture building programs by Feb. 25
If you are building a science innovation, disruptive technology, social venture or climate solution, entrepreneurship @ UBC helps UBC founders execute on their ideas by focusing on customer discovery, competitive analysis, problem validation and product-market fit. entrepreneurship @ UBC incubates over 100 ventures annually, producing skilled entrepreneurs with validated business models who are ready to take their venture to the next level. Faculty and staff may apply for venture building programs by February 25.
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UBCV & UBCO20 January, 2021 | Announcement | Faculty & Staff
Read about UBC's sustainability efforts
It's been ten years since the launch of the UBC Sustainability Initiative – Ten years of connecting, sharing knowledge, and working in partnership to advance sustainability teaching, learning, research, operations and infrastructure, and community development. If you’re interested in finding opportunities to collaborate and advance sustainability, the 2019-20 Annual Sustainability Report outlines the plans, policies, programs, and projects where UBC is actively working towards sustainability goals.
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UBCV19 January, 2021 | Media release | Faculty & Staff
Mental health conditions alarmingly high among children with autism
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UBCV & UBCO19 January, 2021 | Announcement | Faculty & Staff
UBC named one of Canada’s Top Employers for Young People in 2021
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UBCV18 January, 2021 | Announcement | Faculty & Staff
Dan Coombs appointed as head for the Department of Mathematics
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UBCV18 January, 2021 | Feature story | Faculty & Staff
New method helps pocket-sized DNA sequencer achieve near-perfect accuracy
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UBCV18 January, 2021 | Announcement | Faculty & Staff
Ian Mitchell appointed as head of Department of Computer Science