Past Print Issues

A black and white photo of students pushing each other up a wall.

There’s no getting around it – you just have to...

A photo of Saba Farmand standing on a greenery-lined sidewalk, wearing an orange collared jacket.

How boulevard gardens can cultivate community.

A photo of Cole Walliser with long, curly black hair and a gold watch sitting on the ground

From the Pit Pub to the red carpet.

Graphic showing three circular black and white illustrations, related to three quiz questions

A UBC-led team was the first to successfully...

AMS president Esmé Decker (front, centre) and other students in the students building, affectionately known as the Nest.

Advances in technology, a global pandemic, and...

Three UBC students standing and smiling

Raised in the digital age, independently minded,...

Black and white illustrations representing three questions in the quiz

Which student club was popular in the 1940’s?...

Headshot of Jordan MacKenzie

Jordan MacKenzie’s team has created a bio-based...

Photos of all six interviewees

  Tipping reinforces social inequalities Amy...

grain silos in yellow canola fields

A complex problem in need of a complex solution....

an illustration of an astronaut in space, surrounded by food

A UBC prof tackles the challenge of adequate...

a collage showing a can of tomato sauce being poured over a landscape on Mars

Two food security experts explore how the first...

an illustration of a tree trunk

Utility Pole is based on a poem written and...

A photograph of Vancouver taken from a helicopter above the Stanley Park area. It shows West Georgia Street, with False Creek and Science World at the end, and East Vancouver in the background.

There may be no such thing, but Vancouver has...

Illustration of people enjoying a public park, with a city in the background

Communities are shaping their public spaces into...

Illustration of planet and astronaut.

In early 2021, just after the Perseverance Rover...

Illustrations: Raymond Beisinger

UBC Thunderbirds alumni won two medals in which...

Headshot of Martina Valkovicova.

Commit to learning every day.

Dr. Peter Cullis smiling, in a lab.

The most widely used COVID vaccine relies on a...

Illustration of hands sewing amidst blobs of colour in the background.

The pandemic has spawned a sewing surge and a...

Illustration of audience of people looking around at each other.

A welcoming and inclusive workplace requires a...

On-scene care saves more lives than transporting cardiac arrest patients to hospital

The Research:  Dr. Brian Grunau of UBC’s...

Photo: Robin Naidoo

The Research:  Forestry professor Cole...

WIDER PAVEMENT MARKINGS COULD MAKE HIGHWAYS SAFER

The Research:  Civil engineering professor...

(Photo: Zubair Hirji)

The scene from the roof of the Robert H. Lee...

Nature in Freefall

One million plant and animal species are at risk...

Gourmet grads share stories and recipes.

A UBC undergraduate heads for the wilderness...

Rediscover UBC's Vancouver and Okanagan campuses...

UBC Okanagan’s Kevin Golovin is developing new...

Elasmosaurus

“We hope to ignite a sense of amazement and...

What makes Professor Ono proud of UBC? What...

A new program for Tahltan First Nation youth...

My Financial Life is a five-episode personal...

A pioneer of Vancouver’s now-thriving craft beer...

A new data-driven website reveals surprising...

CHIME

CHIME (The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping...

The stellar story of a precocious youth entrusted...

SJO

Is there something you’d like to ask UBC...

The Beijing-based couple tackling air pollution.

We have the technology. We have the data. But it...

Why Rob Butler is passionate about birds, the...

 Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre

UBC student Adina Williams spoke at the opening...

The UBC Entrepreneurship Engine

How an MBA grad was equipped to potentially...

by Angelina Tagliafierro

Q: What are you afraid of? A: Not having a...

Graduating classes used to pay their respects at...

PeggyAssinck

Peggy Assinck, PhD’17, sustained a spinal cord...

Two UBC grads thumb their way across Canada.

The origins of alumni UBC

Sheldon Goldfarb, PhD’92, MAS’96, has been the...

raccoon

A team of UBC graduates, led by Sara Dubois,...

How the loss of a matriarch transformed Fatou...

Q: What is your pet peeve? A: The feeling of rain...

Q: If a genie granted you one wish, what would it...

How UBC is modelling sustainable urban...

Louise

Back when festering landfills were out of sight...

In 1961, Cuba was a hot spot of the Cold War....

The world’s fisheries are in trouble. It’s time...

UBC researchers explore how the quality of...

Former CBC Radio broadcaster Tetsuro Shigematsu...

Elderly woman looking out window

Ninety-three-year-old Iola Knight, BA’45, MA’47,...

UBC researchers chew over some long‑held beliefs...

This November, alumni UBC will honour eight...

Hayley

Q: What would be the title of your biography? A:...

Research has shown that children have racial...

Alysha Connor

Student Alysha Connor is enjoying the university...

The Canadian government says it plans to welcome...

As our climate shifts, many families of plants...

Moving Words

An acrobat and a creative writer who met on their...

Notable Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed...

In many countries, people with albinism are...

UBC owes a lot to its students, who have...

From royalty and rock stars to playwrights and...

Frank Wesbrook

"There are few earthly things more beautiful and...

Top forensic dentist Dr. David Sweet, OC, is all...

The phenomenon of hearing voices is usually...

In the absence of a rigorous government‑led...

Bill Milsom, PhD’78, is a UBC zoologist whose...

UBC engineering prof. Elizabeth Croft, BASc’88,...

Q: What is your pet peeve? A: The noise of humans...

The Rare Disease Foundation is using a collective...

Hundreds of UBC students served in the First...

Q: What is your most prized possession? A: It’s a...

Professor Paul Kershaw’s research shows that...

AAA2014

This November we’ll be celebrating seven members...

Jenny Duffy

Jenny Duffy, BCom’04, has a good head for...

Engineers in scrubs

Michael Cancilla, MEng’14, and team created an...

Never underestimate the power of a girl and her...

UBC prof Judy McLean 
wages war on nutritional...

The Origins of UBC’s Graduating Class Trees

Opportunity Growth

Where others saw a vacant lot, Troy Barrie...

clean water

The evolution of the Bolivian-Canadian Clean...

While leading a project to educate impoverished...

A once‑obscure piece of scientific equipment is...

It’s been almost 30 years since William Gibson’s...

Once the fun-loving lightweight of the sporting...

Paper Trail

Professional origami artist Joseph Wu, BSc’91, is...

Many of us lament the state of the world and wish...

A 10-year-old boy called Charlie – regarded by...

A group of international researchers planned to...

Ron Walls, MD’79, led an emergency department...

Kickstand is a new social and learning space for...

When UBC’s campus radio was born, broadcasting...

Today’s Dan Mangan is critical of the music made...

The work of clinical orthopaedics professor...

Lauryn Oates believes that literacy is key to...

Rick Mercer’s heroes include Nelson Mandela and...

Uganda-based mining engineer Jennifer Hinton,...

Righting a 70-Year Wrong

UBC honours Japanese Canadian students sent to...

An evening basketball program for at-risk youth...

Grameen Bank intern Graham Brewster, BCom’10,...

Many First Nations people lost their languages,...

Mention “The Cairn” to any student or graduate of...

Remember that guy who started off with one red...

Guided by a punk rock ethos and a strong sense of...

UBC was launched 100 years ago at a meeting held...

Chances are, one of the books sitting on your...

Rachel Lewis grew up in a soccer-mad family. Her...

Photographer Peter Holmes, BA’11, has a head-on...

Baby boomers account for nearly a third of...

UBC professor Frank Tester thinks a...

Michael Byers holds the Canada Research Chair in...

Andrew Haas, BA’09, took part in an extreme...

Almost a century ago, a student’s candid...

Environmental lawyer David Boyd, PhD’10, thinks a...

A salute to the wonder of nature or an abominable...