Topics: Alumni
Learning Never Stops
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Maryam Massoumi, a Master of Nursing - Nurse Practitioner Alum, is recognized as a 2025 UBC Applied Science Rising Star.
Female Scholars at Risk initiative offers an engineering education to women held back by conflict
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When Anahita* first arrived at UBC alongside nine other newly admitted Afghan women from Kazakhstan, she came with a tremendous feeling of hope. They were all arriving as part of UBC Applied Science’s Female Scholars at Risk initiative (formerly,…
Across Borders and Futures: A Journey Toward Sustainable and Community-Centred Mining
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Mahjoba Shariq, a Master of Applied Science in Mining Engineering Alum, is recognized as a 2025 UBC Applied Science Rising Star.
Four UBC engineers receive Order of the White Rose scholarships
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The students are among the recipients of the scholarship program honouring the 14 women killed at the École Polytechnique de Montréal in 1989.
Let’s Build a Just and Sustainable Future
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German Ocampo Salazar, a School of Community and Regional Planning graduate, is recognized as a 2025 UBC Applied Science Rising Star.
Learning by Building: How Curiosity led me to Spacecraft Systems
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Yousif El-Wishahy, a graduating Engineering Physics student is recognized as a 2025 UBC Applied Science Rising Star.
How the Mechanical Engineering class of 1984 is giving back
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At their 40th reunion, Maurice Duteau, president of the Mechanical Engineering class of 1984, stood and announced to the group, “many of us have been quite successful and it’s time to pay it back.”
Reframing Architecture from Creating to Collaborating
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Robyn Adams, UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture graduate, is recognized as a 2025 UBC Applied Science Rising Star.
Using her passion for math and science to work for change
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Job: Staff Machine Learning Researcher, FloodbaseTanya Nair is building the technology and tools to transform terabytes of satellite and sensor readings into near real-time flood maps. By designing advanced models to sift through massive,…
Reflections on a career in AI and machine learning
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Job: Senior Machine Learning Scientist, Getty ImagesDelaram Behnami is a values-driven professional working at the leading edge of machine learning and AI. In her current position as a Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Getty Images, she is…