Topics: Women in Engineering

Climate change leads engineers to harness the power of green

| Announcement

UBC Okanagan School of Engineering researchers use several low-impact developments (LIDs), like this vegetative area outside the Commons building, that are intentionally created to help control and retain rainwater.

14 Not Forgotten ceremony honours École Polytechnique victims

The Ubyssey | | Media coverage

The UBC engineering community gathered outside the Fred Kaiser Atrium in remembrance of the 14 victims of the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre.

UBC remembers École Polytechnique 34 years later

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Memorials were held on both UBC campuses today for the 14 women who were killed at École Polytechnique de Montréal on December 6, 1989.

UBC engineering graduate receives the 2023 Order of the White Rose

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Amelia Dai, a UBC chemical and biological engineering graduate, is the ninth recipient of the Order of the White Rose Scholarship. The annual $50,000 scholarship pays tribute to 14 women whose lives were lost at on December 6, 1989.

Engineering grad from B.C. awarded Polytechnique's Order of the White Rose

CTV News | | Media coverage

Chemical and biological engineering alumna Amelia Dai is the first UBC graduate to receive the Order of the White Rose, a scholarship set up in memory of the 14 women who died in the Ecole Polytechnique massacre. 

UBC mechanical engineering graduate named 2024 Rhodes Scholar

| Announcement

Phoebe Cheung, a mechanical engineering graduate from the University of British Columbia, has been awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship for this year.

UBC Geering Up recognized for impact on future engineers by IEEE

| Announcement

UBC Geering Up Engineering Outreach is being recognized for its achievements in promoting STEM education to youth, with an award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Educational Activities Board.

Dr. Agnes d'Entremont teaches the art of the possible

The Ubyssey | | Media coverage

Dr. Agnes d’Entremont, a mechanical engineering associate professor of teaching, talka about APSC 366, an engineering course for non-engineers, called “The Art of the Possible.”

High five

UBC Magazine | | Media coverage

Among the five UBC students shaping a better world are Anjali Menon from the School of Biomedical Engineering and Alyona Glazyrina from the department of Mechanical Engineering.  

DNA vaccines coding for live viruses could soon be tested in people

New Scientist | | Media coverage

UBC School of Biomedical Engineering's Dr. Anna Blakney (Michael Smith Laboratories) commented on DNA vaccines. 

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