Featured Projects
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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
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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
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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
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Breeding a Sweet Solution
About eight years ago, honeybee colonies started to die off with enough frequency to be noticeable. Three or four years ago, they began to collapse in alarming numbers all around the world, particularly in North America. Since then, beekeepers have reported losing about a third of their honeybee hives and colonies every year — about […] more
Research Excellence
Impact 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
Priority Project
The David Strangway Graduate Fellowship
The University of British Columbia was deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. David Strangway, the 10th president of UBC, on December 13, 2016. The David Strangway Graduate Fellowship was more
Research Excellence
Impact Story
UBC and Kal Tire announce research partnership
Kal Tire’s Mining Tire Group and the University of British Columbia have formed a research partnership that will allow the two organizations to collaborate in developing technology and innovative solutions for the mining tire industry. In the recently-signed memorandum of understanding (MOU), both parties agree to pursue research and innovation as part of a partnership […] more
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