Topics: Indigenous Student Experience
Indigenous Student Experience
| Landing page
UBC’s Vancouver campus is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded land of the Musqueam people, and its Okanagan campus is located on the territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation. For generations, these lands have been a place of teaching and…
Beyond Mechanical Engineering and into the unknown
| Spotlight
As I was starting my degree at the School of Engineering, I really had no idea what career I wanted once I finished. But what I did have was an overwhelming number of ideas of what my career could be, like working with renewable energy technologies…
James Shaw, BASc '20, Materials Engineering
| Spotlight
I was born and raised in Oshawa, Ontario, a city halfway between Toronto and farmer fields. Oshawa is most well-known for the General Motors car assembly plant. The facility was in operation for over 100 years and put Oshawa on the map. I played…
Danilo Caron, BASc '20, Civil Engineering
| Spotlight
I was born and raised in Kamloops, BC but my roots come from Castelfranco Veneto in Italy and the Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nation in Ontario. My father immigrated to BC while my mom moved to BC after finishing teacher’s college. They met and…