Featured Projects
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How your gifts are supporting research to make the world a better place
Donors play a vital role in helping UBC continue to produce trail-blazing innovation and research. From medical breakthroughs to quantum research, by supporting UBC you are playing your part in shaping the future. To find out more, read our summer 2020 Impact of Your Giving newsletter. more
Research Excellence
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Accelerate COVID-19 research at UBC
As the novel coronavirus continues to sweep the globe, UBC is mobilizing its best minds and connecting with partners to develop treatments, prevent COVID-19’s spread, and gain a deeper understanding more
Research Excellence
Impact Story
From landlocked to the ocean depths: in search of jellyfish
At UBC, Jessica Schaub found her passion for research and was particularly fascinated with jellyfish and their role in the marine ecosystem. Finishing her undergraduate degree with combined honours in Oceanography and Biology, Jessica is now in the second year of her Master of Science degree. Photo: Lauren Portner more
Research Excellence, Student Learning
Impact Story
The piano in the room: A lifeline in the BC Brain Wellness Program
As the co-founder of UBC’s innovative BC Brain Wellness Program, Dr. Silke Cresswell is grateful for the support of UBC donors, who helped to kick-start the initiative. more
Research Excellence
Priority Project
UBC Centre for High-Throughput Phenogenomics Fund
UBC’s Centre for High-Throughput Phenogenomics (CHTP) is a full-service facility for high-resolution imaging of biological and inorganic samples. It is home to a comprehensive suite of imaging more
Research Excellence
Priority Project
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
Priority Project
Change the world. Support great minds.
Great minds don’t think alike—they challenge convention. But they need your support to do it. By making a gift today to support UBC students, you will help them change the world. more
Community Engagement, Research Excellence, Student Learning
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The CoSphere Development Fund
CoSphere—a Community of Small Planet Heroes Ecologically Regenerating Economies—seeks to change the way we think about and account for the environment, using transformative technology to activate a global community of changemakers. Please donate today so that we can achieve our goal of making it easier, more transparent, and more rewarding, to mitigate the environmental impact of our daily more
Research Excellence
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Physical Activity and Exercise Medicine at UBC
The Chan Gunn Pavilion is the hub for the centre for physical activity and exercise medicine at UBC—a world-class model of multidisciplinary, integrated clinical services combined with academic more
Research Excellence
Priority Project
Connecting Past and Present: Persian Language and Iranian Studies at UBC
There has never been a better time to champion Persian language and Iranian studies at UBC. Please read our case for support in the project links below, and consider a more
Research Excellence
Priority Project
The Arthrogryposis (AMC) Registry at UBC
Two years ago Dr. Bonnie Sawatzky, Associate Professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at UBC, obtained a small grant from the National Rare Diseases organization in order to gather data more
Research Excellence
Priority Project
Shape the World for the Better: the 2017 Alumni Appeal
Progress toward a better world is not guaranteed—it is the result of people coming together to create it. However, voices around the world that reject the values of knowledge, research, more
Community Engagement, Research Excellence, Student Learning
