UBC President Arvind Gupta proposes a national exchange program as a way to reinforce Canadian identity in a submission to The Globe and Mail.
Recognizing the contributions of staff members to the UBC community, in 2014 eleven President’s Staff Awards have been awarded to staff at the Vancouver campus.
Recognizing the contributions of staff members to the UBC community, five staff have been awarded the 2014 President’s Service Award for Excellence.
Freie Universität Berlin and the University of British Columbia sign a new strategic partnership agreement to foster innovation in research and teaching.
The University of British Columbia and the Karolinska Institutet today signed a Memorandum of Understanding cementing a long standing desire on the part of both institutions to enhance collaboration between them.
With the 2014-15 UBC budget now approved by the Board of Governors, I wanted to provide my annual update on the financial context and outlook of the University.
Globe and Mail Op-Ed
It is with deep sadness that I heard earlier today of the Hon. Jim Flaherty’s untimely death, a death all the more tragic for coming so close on the heels of retirement from his distinguished career in public service.
Dr. Arvind Gupta chosen as UBC’s next President.
UBC President Professor Stephen Toope was presented with the United Way President’s Award of Distinction at the 2014 Scotiabank and United Way Community Spirit Awards.
Johnson explores the horrors of life in North Korea, from a prison colony to the internal operations of the security services. Employing the tools of magic realism – perhaps the only tools that could possibly capture the insanity of the world he reveals – Johnson creates a masterpiece that, despite its grim storyline is nonetheless a paean to courage and sacrifice.
I usually like Tóibín’s work, but was disappointed by this short novel. In my edition, it weighs in at 104 pages, but felt like hard work to slog through. Imagining Jesus’s mother as a sad, angry and guilt-ridden elderly woman, Tóibín tries to humanize her and to undermine the myths that grew around the Galilean […]
Lesser Roth is still Roth: vital, ribald, deeply human. Without the profound insight of the Zuckerman novels, Indignation is still a bildungsroman of depth and charm.
Moore keeps being considered for major prizes, but remains the bridesmaid, so to speak. I am not sure why, as her narratives are strong and her writing is exuberant yet remarkably precise and filled with powerful images. Caught is the story of David Slaney, an attractive young convicted drug trafficker who escapes from prison determined […]
February 25 marked the formal opening of the University of British Columbia –India Liaison Office.
I am delighted to have been asked to participate in the official delegation for the Governor General of Canada’s state visit to India.
I am pleased to announce that I will take up the post of Director of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs starting January 1, 2015.
A world masterpiece, in my view. Sebald was a German academic who spent most of his career in the United Kingdom, where he grew tired of the rigidities of scholarly writing and turned himself into one of the most innovative “creative” writers in the English language. Austerlitz contains strong narrative flow but is also part […]
Banville is one of my favourite contemporary novelists. He is heir to the great Irish tradition of good storytelling and lush language. But to my mind he displays a discipline that precludes sentimentality. This story is beautiful, but shocking: a young boy falls in love with the mother of his best friend and causes a […]
