Strategic Priority Areas: University for the Future

University for the Future

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Our core mission to inspire learning, lead research and develop tomorrow’s citizens will not change. What will change is how we achieve this mission.

Concussion, Fan Tech and Skills: Click looks at how technology is helping one sport to monitor the effects of concussion and how another - football - is using technology to enhance fans' experiences.

BBC | | Media coverage

Professor Rabab Ward Receives IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing

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UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor and former ICICIS Director Rabab Ward receives an award for outstanding contributions to technology, society, and engineering. 

UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Dr. Sudip Shekhar recipient of Schmidt Science Polymaths Award

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Dr. Shekhar will receive up to US $2.5 Million for interdisciplinary research support.

Scientists develop electronic skin capable of 'feeling'

Forbes | | Media coverage

Will Hughes appointed Director, School of Engineering

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The Faculty of Applied Science is pleased to announce that Professor Will Hughes has been appointed Director for the School of Engineering at UBC Okanagan for a five-year term commencing July 1, 2022.

Everyone belongs in STEM: Creating an environment for all youth to feel welcome through the Geering Up program

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Geering Up is a community outreach program run by UBC Engineering to provide the youth of British Columbia with the opportunity to investigate engineering, science, and technology in a fun, educational and safe environment.

B.C. researchers using lights brighter than the sun to curb hip implant failures

Victoria News | | Media coverage

Top prospects: Leading innovators from the Class of 2022

The Financial Post | | Media coverage

New ‘state-of-the-art’ UBC building aims to boost B.C. healthcare, biotech sectors

Abby News | | Media coverage

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UBC is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm people (Musqueam; which means 'People of the River Grass') and Syilx Okanagan Nation. The land has always been a place of learning for the Musqueam and Syilx peoples, who for millennia have passed on their culture, history and traditions from one generation to the next.

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