Ask around at UBC Campus Security, and they'll tell you about the time a prankster released a crate of chickens into Brock Hall, sparking a diseased-poultry scare and a two-hour round-up of the panicked birds. Or the night a bunch of misguided…

So you've never played a note on a piano - don't let that stop you from writing a fabulous four-part composition. UBC Arts One lecturer Brandon Konoval says technology is taking music education into a new realm, where students can experience a music…

When Andrea Van Deijck's doctor gave her grave news, she turned to a group of UBC Law students for help – but cuts in provincial funding could leave others like her with no safe haven. Van Deijck has Crohn's disease, a serious chronic inflammatory…

It was the mid-'70s and King George VI had been dead for more than 40 years when some rogue stole his sword. The dignity of George's statue, which stands by the Woodward Biomedical Library, took a serious blow when some students

Teaching self-defence in a sun-scorched refugee camp is not your typical vacation plan, but that's how UBC technical writer Kirsty Barclay spent her holidays. Barclay worked with the Karen Women's Organisation, which runs development and relief…

In May, Iulia Litman will complete a journey that began 13 years ago and 9,200 km away when Romania's communists gave her little choice but to enroll in a forestry program. When Iulia Litman enrolled at the University of Transilvania in Brasov under…

As a child, Nancy Carpenter watched in awe as Olympian Vasily Alexyev competed on weightlifting's world stage, and she dreamed of doing the same. At the age of 39, with her sight fading fast, Carpenter refused to let go of that vision. Legally blind,…

Imagine making childhood plans to one day be an astronaut or a fighter pilot, and then imagine what it was like for Bachelor of Science student Sam Kohen to be invited to work at NASA. "When I went there it was better than being a kid in a candy…

Studying law is tough at the best of times, but Natasha Edgar's path to a UBC law degree has been even harder than most. Quadriplegic since a spinal cord injury at 17, Edgar has overcome a host of challenges, throwing her energies into study, sport,…

When 10-year-old James Dai arrived in Canada, he couldn't speak a word of English. Ten years later, the BSc graduate is set to use technology to teach literacy to kids through MIT Media Lab's…

The responses to the tragedy of Sept. 11 were poles apart. When seven TJX employees died aboard one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center, the president and…

In their struggle to build new lives, scores of Afghani refugee women in Pakistan are relying on UBC Commerce valedictorian Salima Rawji and her colleagues.