Featured Projects
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Undergraduate Student Experience Fund
The UBC Sauder Class Giving Campaign is officially underway. The UBC Sauder Class of 2019 gift will support the Undergraduate Student Experience Fund. Your donation will support the newest innovations more
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Solving the fundamental problems of nuclear security and energy
Dr. M. V. Ramana, the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security, is becoming the preeminent expert on nuclear disarmament more
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The Gift that Keeps on Innovating
On the 40th anniversary of the influential Project Lab, Scott Phillips has a new project: A donation to expand the UBC Engineering Physics space that helped make him a BC entrepreneurial success story—and to inspire others to do the same. more
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Climate change on your mind? UBC researchers have ways you can help where you live
Are you wondering how you can do your part to help reduce climate change? UBC researchers have created the Citizen’s Coolkit filled with evidence-based, practical ways for you to make changes to your home, your yard and your neighbourhood that will make a difference! more
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UBC Climate Hub
The UBC Climate Hub is a new university-wide initiative that aims to connect and empower university and community stakeholders to take bold climate action for a just future. The Hub more
Community Engagement
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Boye Ahlborn Endowment for the Engineering Physics Project Lab—Scaling Up the Future of BC Entrepreneurship
Think of an innovation that has impacted your life, or has the potential to change it forever. A new medical device, an automotive fuel cell, or a quantum computer? Whatever more
Community Engagement, Research Excellence, Student Learning
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The Steven Volrich Memorial Bursary
The Steven Volrich Memorial Bursary was named for our Class of 1984 classmate, Steven Volrich, as a way to honour his courage when faced with terminal cancer. The Steven Volrich Memorial Bursary more
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Enhancing care for women and girls affected by violence: The Capacity Research Unit
Violence against women and girls is a significant problem in Canada and around the world. There is an urgent need for improved evidence to prevent violence, intervene early when it more
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Help Vulnerable Youth Reach Their Potential
Adolescence is a challenging time in everyone’s life, but what if you also have to contend with stigma, trauma, discrimination, or other violence? What would a world look like if more
Community Engagement
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Support Room: A New Publication by SALA Students
Please make a donation to support Room, and support the design culture and community of Vancouver. The publication will fill a considerable void in both local and international design discourse, more
Community Engagement
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Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation makes first gift to Blue & Gold Campaign for Students
The Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation operates on a simple belief: ensuring children are healthy and educated today will prepare them to be the leaders of tomorrow. It’s a principle Dr. Djavad Mowafaghian, the renowned philanthropist who founded the Vancouver-based foundation in 2003, learned from his mother, who always modeled kindness and generosity during his childhood in […] more
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A New Advocate in the Downtown Eastside
Christopher Hiebert had heard of the Indigenous Community Legal Clinic, a program offered by the Allard School of Law at UBC, long before he became a law student. He lived in a single-room occupancy hotel in Gastown, a block from the clinic’s front door. He was intrigued. “The clinic inspired the idea that I could […] more
