CFI funding will enable UBC astronomers and partners to support Canada’s contribution to the most powerful optical and ...

We honour xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam) on whose ancestral, unceded territory UBC Vancouver is situated. UBC Science is committed to building meaningful relationships with Indigenous peoples so we can ...

Dr. Bridgette Clarkston, associate professor of teaching with UBC Botany, has been awarded one of this year's BCTLC West ...

AI chatbots can grant almost any request—a celebrity in love with you, a research assistant, a book character sprung to life—instantly and with little effort. New research presented at the 2026 CHI ...

The critically endangered giant guitarfish is among the species being caught by bottom trawling, according to a new global inventory published by University of British Columbia researchers (Sarah ...

From generating a project idea and conducting experiments, to writing a scientific paper and evaluating its own work, an AI scientist can now carry out a research experiment from beginning to end — ...

Arctic tracking shows ringed seals trade safety for food variety—evidence that conservation plans must factor in both food and fear. As climate change reshapes Arctic food webs, ringed seals will swim ...

Imagine UBC and the University's orientation programs serve as new students' formal welcome to the University, and to the learning community they have joined. Imagine UBC helps both first year and ...

Scarlet monkeyflower plant in natural habitat. Photo credit: Seema Sheth. For the first time in the wild, researchers have shown plant populations can evolve quickly enough to rebound from extreme ...

Dr. Curtis Suttle has ben awarded the Jacob Biely Research Prize and Dr. Jess McIver has received the Charles A. McDowell Award for Excellence in Research. Two of the university’s premier research ...

They raid compost bins, outsmart latches and sometimes look gleeful doing it. A new UBC study in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons may not just be opportunistic—they may be genuinely curious. UBC ...