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  • Mini brains
    UBCV
    May 30, 2023 | Feature story | Faculty & Staff

    How lab-grown ‘mini-brains’ could reveal the inner workings of dementia — and point to a cure

    Over the past 20 years, Alzheimer’s researchers have conducted more than 200 clinical trials of promising candidate therapies, with little success. An effective treatment for the devastating neurodegenerative disease remains elusive. Using 3D bioprinting technology, UBC researchers Dr. Haakon Nygaard and Dr. Brian MacVicar are working to grow tissue models of patients’ own brains. Their work could revolutionize Alzheimer’s treatments.

  • Students as Partners fund
    UBCV
    May 29, 2023 | Announcement | Faculty & Staff

    Apply to the Students as Partners fund by June 16

    The Students as Partners fund provides grants to encourage faculty-student partnerships in undergraduate course design at UBC Vancouver. Faculty and undergraduate student partners may receive up to $7,100 to design or revise existing undergraduate courses, as well as dedicated support from an assigned Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology staff member, and access to a learning community. Submit an application by 3pm on June 16.

  • Gage Averill
    UBCV
    May 29, 2023 | Leadership one-on-one | Faculty & Staff

    Gage Averill

    Dr. Gage Averill is Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver. In this role, he provides vision and leadership to the Faculties, oversees the budget, leads institutional planning, and ensures the university maintains excellence in teaching and learning. He joined UBC as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts in 2010, where he played an instrumental role in creating new schools, institutes, research centres, and interdisciplinary programs. Over the span of his career, he has held various leadership positions, such as Vice-Principal, Academic, and Dean for the University of Toronto, Mississauga campus; Dean of Music at the University of Toronto; and Chair of the Department of Music at New York University. Dr. Averill has won a range of teaching, research and literary awards over the years. As a renowned ethnomusicologist, his anthology of historic Haitian music also earned him a Grammy nomination. All of these accolades mark the different passions of his life. Outside of work, he enjoys biking and exploring nature.

  • CWEG
    UBCV & UBCO
    May 25, 2023 | Announcement | Faculty

    Apply for a Climate and Wellbeing Education Grant by June 12

    Climate and Wellbeing Education Grants provide up to $6,000 to UBC faculty members to incorporate climate change and wellbeing content and approaches into existing undergraduate and graduate courses. 

  • AI in the classroom
    UBCV
    May 24, 2023 | Media release | Faculty & Staff

    From science fiction to classroom reality: How UBC professors are using AI as a teaching tool

    Hiring a new teaching assistant usually means reading stacks of resumes, conducting interviews, and checking references—but what if they aren’t human? Meet ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, two new artificial intelligence-powered teaching assistants (created by OpenAI and Microsoft, respectively) that are ready and available to help third-year engineering physics students at UBC who might be looking for help with their homework or assignments.

  • Peiman Azarsa
    UBCO
    May 23, 2023 | Research in focus | Faculty & Staff

    Research in focus: Peiman Azarsa

    As a construction materials engineer, Peiman's research is focused on finding new methods and technologies to produce sustainable concrete. Find out what first motivated him to study this essential component in construction and infrastructure development.

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