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UBC opens up to inner-city kids with unique program
Credit: Angeli dela Rosa Inner-city elementary school students from East Vancouver will get their first look at university life from a basketball court at UBC on January 16. But the kids participating...
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UBC launches video project to give voice to European minorities
Through crowdfunding online, the GRC raised $14,000 and is now offering small grants to filmmakers, writers, activists and other storytellers in Europe. Credit: Austcare/Flickr In the wake of terror...
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Crowdsourcing and chaos: how social media can save the day
A collapsed middle school in Wenchuan Country still stands a year after the 2008 earthquake. Credit: Josh Chin/Flickr When a powerful earthquake devastated China’s Sichuan province in 2008, the...
View ArticlePeter A. Allard, Q.C., doa 30 milhões de dólares canadenses, a maior verba já...
O ex-aluno de Direito da UBC, Peter A. Allard, Q.C., doou 30 milhões de dólares canadenses à Faculdade de Direito da Universidade da Colúmbia Britânica, a maior verba já doada a uma faculdade de...
View ArticleUBC Law reçoit un don de 30 millions de dollars, le plus important jamais...
Peter A. Allard, c.r., ancien étudiant d’UBC Law, a fait un don de 30 millions de dollars à la Faculty of Law de l’UBC. C’est le don le plus important jamais reçu par une faculté de droit canadienne....
View ArticlePeter A. Allard, Q.C. stiftet $30 Millionen, die bisher höchste Schenkung...
Peter Allard, Q.C, der ehemalige Student der juristischen Fakultät der UBC, hat der UBC Faculty of Law $30 Millionen gestiftet, die bis heute größte Schenkung an eine kanadische Jurafakultät. In...
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英属哥伦比亚大学法学院校友彼得·埃拉德向该校法学院捐赠3000万美元。这是加拿大法学院历史以来所收到的最大额单笔捐款。这笔捐款将让英属哥伦比亚大学法学院在拥护人权和社会公正的声誉上再创辉煌。为感谢这一馈赠，英属哥伦比亚大学将以他的名字为法学院重新命名，新名字为“埃拉德法学院”（Peter A. Allard School of Law）。...
View Articleبيتر إيه آلارد –حاصل على رتبة مستشار ملكي (Q.C) بالقانون –يتبرع بثلاثين مليون...
تبرّع بيتر إيه آلارد – مستشار ملكي Q.C وخرّيج كلية الحقوق بجامعة بريتش كولومبيا – بثلاثين مليون دولار إلى كلية الحقوق بجامعة بريتش كولومبيا وهي أكبر منحة تم تقديمها لكلية حقوق كندية على الإطلاق....
View Articleピーター・A・アラード氏（ケベック州）3,000万ドルを寄附 在カナダロースクールにおける最大の寄附 同氏の功績をたたえ、UBCロースクール改名へ
ブリティッシュ・コロンビア大学（UBC）ロースクールの卒業生であるピーター・A・アラード（Peter A....
View ArticlePeter A. Allard, Q.C. dona $30 millones de dólares, la donación más grande...
Peter A. Allard, Q.C., egresado de la facultad de Derecho UBC Law, ha donado $30 millones de dólares a dicha facultad de la UBC, lo que constituye la donación más grande que jamás se haya hecho a una...
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Notice: Screening of “Photographer” not open to the public due to limited...
Auschwitz concentration camp, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, flowers of commemoration on the rail track. Credit: Dnalor 01/Wikipedia Please be advised that Tuesday’s screening of the Dariusz Jablonski’s...
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Experts comment on B.C. assisted suicide decision
The Supreme Court of Canada released its judgement Friday in a high-profile case challenging the ban on assisted suicide. Photo: iStock The Supreme Court ruled Friday on a B.C. assisted suicide case....
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Cancer is not a game of roulette
Carolyn Gotay, a professor in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC and the Canadian Cancer Society Chair in Cancer Primary Prevention. Credit: Brian Kladko The journal Science published a...
View ArticleOntario to fund $700,000-a-year drug for rare, life-threatening illness
Ontario will expand funding of the drug Soliris, a medication that can cost more than $700,000 per year for people with a rare kidney disorder. However, the country’s drug-price regulator argues the...
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A loss for us all: the destruction of Iraq’s cultural heritage
An Assyrian winged bull at Nimrud in Iraq, similar to the one demolished at the site of Nineveh. Credit: Wikimedia Commons The recent destruction of cultural heritage in Iraq by the Islamic State...
View ArticleUBC This Week 30-Apr-2015
Recent UBC Media Releases Apr 24 UBC students to take unmanned drones to national competition Apr 25 Experts available to comment on Nepal earthquake Apr 27 ‘Chemo brain’ is real, say UBC...
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Exposure to air pollution in the first year of life increases risk for allergies
Canadian CHILD Study sheds new light on childhood risk of developing allergies New research from the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) study shows that exposure to outdoor air...
View ArticleSoutien des familles et du milieu scolaire essentiel à la bonne santé des...
Une nouvelle étude nationale démontre que, bien que les jeunes transgenres au Canada se confrontent à d’importantes difficultés en matière de santé physique et mentale, la présence de liens forts avec...
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UBC scientists receive nearly $33M in NSERC funding
Scientists across an array of faculties at University of British Columbia will receive a combined total of $32.7 million in grants, fellowships and scholarships, the Natural Sciences and Engineering...
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