Topics: EDI+Indigeneity
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Geering Up receives 2019 Actua Experience Award
| Announcement
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
| Announcement
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
| Announcement
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
| Announcement
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.