University of British Columbia

Fusing Western design with Indigenous tradition is at the heart of architect Alfred Waugh’s craft

At UBC, the athletics department is working with local First Nations to decolonize and Indigenize sport. They have a new tagline and are introducing renewed storytelling about how the Thunderbirds—the school’s varsity teams—got their name.

Fewer international students, half-full residences, shuttered food services and empty parking lots add up to devastating revenue losses. And public funding has fallen over the past decade. Universities are in for a reckoning.

’Universities bear part of the responsibility for this history,’ says UBC President Santa Ono. Read the transcript.

What Jim Hart’s recently completed totem at the University of British Columbia says about the meaning of reconciliation

Robert Hancock and Olga Peña—who lost her father to sepsis—may have found a way to diagnose the deadliest syndrome you’ve never heard of

A student newspaper’s years-long court battle to reveal UBC’s broad-based admissions rubric is over. But whether that system works remains unclear.

A petition. A counter-petition. Apologies. Accusations. Canada’s most beloved authors have found themselves embroiled in an ugly controversy

Toadstools? No, mushroom benches.

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