Topics: EDI+Indigeneity
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Marginalized groups experience higher cumulative air pollution in urban Canada
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Edited: June 27, 2022Different marginalized groups are exposed to higher cumulative air pollution in Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto, according to new research from the University of British Columbia.In Vancouver, Indigenous residents are most at…
UBC Geering Up to offer free virtual engineering-themed workshops for high school girls
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This Saturday, October 17, UBC Geering Up Engineering Outreach will launch a series of free monthly online workshops targeted at girls in grades 8 to 12.
Geering Up for a pandemic
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Edited: June 27, 2022 Editors Note: Since this article's original publication, Geering Up has continued to expand it's online programming. The organization posts workshops for adolescents, teens, and teachers. Geering Up's YouTube…
UBC Applied Science #ShutDownSTEM Statement
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Dear Applied Science Community, I am writing to affirm that UBC Applied Science stands in solidarity with #ShutDownSTEM, #ShutDownAcademia, and #Strike4BlackLives this Wednesday, June 10th. We support colleagues in our Faculty, at UBC and globally…
Dean’s message: We must act together against racism and discrimination
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Dear students, staff and faculty, As I follow current events, I am deeply unsettled and acknowledge that I must do more, we must do more, to change the systemic racism embedded in all facets of our society, including within the Faculty of Applied…
Vote for Applied Science Women of Distinction
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In 2020, two UBC Applied Science researchers have been nominated for the prestigious YWCA Women of Distinction Awards: Karen Cheung (Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering) under the category of Research,…
Geering Up receives 2019 Actua Experience Award
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Updated June 24, 2022 Editors note: Since this article was published in 2019, Gearing Up has been diversifying and expanding. During the COVID-19 pandemic, online programming was launched so that BC youth could access STEM. Now, Gearing Up…
Four UBC Applied Science students receive Women in Tech Scholarships
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Four students in the UBC Faculty of Applied Science — Jessica Bo, Esther Lin, Parmis Mohaghegh and Tiffany Quon — have been awarded 2019 Women in Technology and Indigenous Women in Technology Scholarships from the Irving K. Barber British Columbia…
Warm welcomes and a fond farewell in the APSC Dean's Office
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Sally Thorne will step down from her position as Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs in the UBC Faculty of Applied Science dean’s office on June 30, 2019 — the end of her term — to take a one-year administrative leave.
UBC’s School of Biomedical Engineering nears student gender parity
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UBC’s new school of biomedical engineering (BME) is closing in on a milestone of student gender parity. BME’s female enrolment rate is now 45.9 per cent which makes the BME program close to the faculty of applied science’s goal of gender parity.