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UBC pays tribute to victims of Montreal massacre
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Earlier this afternoon, members of the UBC community gathered at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the École Polytechnique massacre, in which 14 women — 13 students and one school administrator — were…
Three students awarded Canada's largest STEM scholarship
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Selected from a national pool of over 300,000 high school candidates, five students from the University of British Columbia have received the prestigious Schulich Leader Scholarship. Three of the 2019 recipients are enrolled in Faculty of Applied…
UBC Ice Cream Day event a screaming success
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On July 18, 2019, almost 170 members of the UBC community gathered at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering to celebrate everyone’s favourite frozen treat: ice cream!Why are some ice creams creamier than others? What is the…
UBC Thunderbots triumph at RoboCup 2019
| Announcement
The UBC Thunderbots placed first in their division at RoboCup 2019, an annual international robotics competition aimed at “[promoting] robotics and AI research by offering a publicly appealing but formidable challenge.” These challenges include…
Kylie Kerik, BASc '19, Environmental Engineering
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I have been actively involved in the engineering community since the moment I stepped foot on campus. I knew I wanted to take advantage of all the opportunities that a university could offer me. Looking back, I am grateful for the approach I took; I…
Alan Ehrenholz, BASc '19, Civil Engineering
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From the Engineering Undergraduate Society (EUS) to the UBC Cycling Team, Alan Ehrenholz spent the entirety of his six-year degree exploring what UBC had to offer and giving back to the community that gave him so much. From the very beginning, as…
Vasilii Triandafilidi, PhD ’20, Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Vasilii was a PhD candidate in the UBC Chemical and Biological Engineering (CHBE) program who graduated in May 2020. After a failed attempt to commercialize his research on smart polymers, he quickly pivoted and co-founded Innovation OnBoard (IOB…
Pranav Menon, BASc '19, Integrated Engineering
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If there’s one way to describe Pranav, it would be an intrapreneur — someone that is ridiculously passionate about using their entrepreneurial mindset to solve problems not just through startups or ventures, but also within organizations.
Daniel Luo, BASc '19, Civil Engineering
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“I gained so much by simply being present and diligent in every class, even if I had formed preconceived notions about it (read: skippable classes are a myth! Do not skip class!).”
Felipe Eltit, PhD '19, Biomedical Engineering
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I started my PhD journey after several years of dental clinical practice and teaching at the university level. In my practice, the major clinical problems that I faced involved the interaction of the human body with biomaterials. My clinical…