Featured Projects
Priority Project
The Beautiful Brain: Exploring Art and Neuroscience
A new collaborative project aims to create conversations and expand our understanding of connections between visual art and neuroscience. In fall 2017, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery will more
Success Story
Teaching at the heart of giving
Musicologist Elizabeth Lamberton (MA’78, PhD’88) fondly recalls her time at UBC. She credits her inspiring professors with helping her to discover her own lifelong passion: teaching. “I more
Research Excellence, Student Learning
Special Appeals
100 Years of Impact: Mapping Donor Support
If you take a walk around our campus, you will see the impact of our supporters everywhere. Click on the points below to find out more—where will you make a more
Community Engagement, Research Excellence, Student Learning
Priority Project
Faculty of Arts Bursary Fund
Donor funding is critical for many students to obtain a post-secondary education. The Faculty of Arts Bursary Fund provides students with the much-needed finances and enables them to focus on more
Student Learning
Priority Project
BC Leadership Chair in Culture and Ecosystems at Risk
The study of indigenous cultures and their interactions with local environments can inform our understanding of issues related to environmental conservation, resource management and sustainable more
Community Engagement, Research Excellence, Student Learning
Priority Project
The Summer Institute for Future Legislators
At UBC’s Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions we hear concerns about the quality of our democracy. We need good people to enter politics, people who are prepared for the more
Priority Project
Global Reporting Centre
Media companies have closed foreign bureaus and cut back on investigative reporting. While citizen journalists, social media and the regular feed of short foreign news stories can keep the public more
Student Learning
Special Appeals
1942 Japanese Canadian UBC Students Fund
A fund has been created as a tribute to recognize the Japanese Canadian students of 1942 who were unable to complete their UBC degrees or to take part in their more
Student Learning
Priority Project
Faculty of Arts Endowment Fund
The Faculty of Arts Endowment provides vital support for student-run societies and other critical learning opportunities outside the classroom. more
Student Learning
Priority Project
School of Music
The UBC School of Music is today one of the leading music schools in Canada and the largest in western Canada with some 300 undergraduates, 100-plus graduate students, and over more
Student Learning
Priority Project
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions
Located within the Department of Political Science and established through a generous gift from Gail and Stephen Jarislowsky, the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) seeks to more
Research Excellence
Success Story
A daughter’s privilege: Advancing the arts, forestry and medical discoveries
For Dr. Irene Bettinger, the job of giving away money is a privilege, as she gets to choose projects of great consequence in keeping with her parents’ final wishes. Edwina and Paul Heller, a UBC pianist and BC lumber mill owner, were great supporters of music, education and Vancouver’s Jewish community. Having fled Europe shortly […] more
Research Excellence, Student Learning
