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Migration, Nationhood and Human Rights

With today’s polarized politics, people may not agree on the terminology – immigrants? refugees? invaders? – but there’s little doubt that migration is reshaping the world. 

Illustration: Fernando Volken Togni
Inside Out
UBC’s Global Reporting Centre steps away from traditional "parachute journalism" in favour of empowering local voices.
Spotlight Archive
Arts
Lens on Life
Genocide scholar Adam Jones, BA'88, PhD’99, balances the serious nature of his research with prolific travel, and...
Athletics
PeggyAssinck
Motivated Player
Peggy Assinck, PhD’17, sustained a spinal cord injury. Now she conducts spinal cord research and plays on a national...
Business
smart business
Smart Business
Turning academic research into real-world results.
Campus
Illustration: Margie and the Moon
When the Airplane Landed at UBC
How Brock Hall came to host the international debut of one of the hottest bands of the Sixties.
Careers
Grant Munro
Thinking Like an Entrepreneur
Is an entrepreneurial mindset an advantage in times of change and job uncertainty? And is it something that can be...
Community
Dare
Come Hell or High Mountain
Dentistry grad Chris Dare, DMD'15, has completed a challenge that few others would even attempt. This is his survival...
Environment
How to conserve half the planet without going hungry
“To deal with the biodiversity crisis we need to find a way to give nature more space.”
Give UBC
UBC President’s Pandemic Recovery Initiative
UBC President’s Pandemic Recovery Initiative
The effects of the COVID-19 global pandemic have been immediate and far-reaching—but together we can support each other...
Health
High Risk Zone: Diary of an aid worker in Sierra Leone
Chris Anderson, BA’07, describes himself as a humanitarian logistician. This means he supports humanitarian aid...
Humanities
North by Northwest
The West’s relations with North Korea have long fluctuated between diplomatic engagement and turbulent flare-ups that...
Life
Table Talk
Gourmet grads share stories and recipes.
Opinion
“It is time for Canadians to embrace the rights of nature.”
David Boyd, PhD’10, points out that other countries have already recognized the legal rights of non-human animals,...
Science
How to Catch a Woodpecker
A UBC undergraduate heads for the wilderness armed with a giant net, a plumbing camera, and gallons of bug spray.
Technology
Yesterday’s Tomorrow
Artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving. How do we ensure it works for us and not against us?
afterwords

alumni UBC’s afterwords is a digital conversation series that shares the stories of some of UBC Okanagan’s extraordinary alumni.

Sonja Nordman
afterwords: Sonja Nordman
Launching in celebration of UBC Okanagan’s 15th anniversary in 2020, alumni UBC’s afterwords is a digital conversation...
Changemakers

UBC grads defining the future

Photo: Guy Ferguson
Zero-Waste Groceries
Building a supply chain to make groceries package-free
Class Acts

News from your old classmates

Findings

Discovery, invention and innovation

Atomic model of the COVID-19 spike protein, captured using cryo-electron microscopy technology at UBC.
COVID-19 Close-Up
Powerful imaging technology is revealing the COVID-19 virus in all its atomic detail, providing blueprints for the...
In Memoriam

Lives and Legacies

President's Column

A message from UBC President and Vice-Chancellor Santa J. Ono

UBC President Santa J. Ono
A World of Difference
A message from UBC President and Vice-Chancellor Santa J. Ono
Quiz

A non-credit test of your UBC smarts

Quiz
Quiz
Image 1. How many students have graduated from the Okanagan campus since it opened 15...
Rewind

A glance into UBC’s past

Photo: David Zhang
The knoll: a hill to die on?
To outsiders, it’s an unassuming grassy slope, but for those in the know, the knoll is a beloved campus landmark – the...
The Big Picture

More show, less tell

(Photo: Zubair Hirji)
UBC Climate Strike
The scene from the roof of the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre on September 27, as students, faculty, and staff added their...
The Scoop

Snack-sized campus news

Vancouver & Okanagan News – Fall 2020
Facing up to Systemic Racism In June, President Ono announced plans for a UBC advisory committee on systemic racism,...
The Last Word

Q&As featuring well-known individuals with a UBC connection

The Last Word with Raffi Cavoukian, DLitt’05
Q: What's the most important lesson you ever learned? A: Young children are whole people, worthy of respect.

2009 Great Trekker Luncheon with UBC Chancellor Sarah Morgan-Silvester (in Toronto)

April 13, 2009

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