Alumni Advice: Tips for an amazing year ahead
We asked Arts alumni what advice they would give to their first-year selves. Find out what they had to say.
MFA Theatre Design and Production graduate is transforming set design through virtual reality
Kimira Bhikum believes that VR can help bridge the gap between vision and expression.
Calling all music lovers: Five new pianos in locations across campus are waiting to be played
Tom Lee Music provided the pianos to UBC so that students, staff, and community members alike could have an avenue to release stress, improve their mood and wellbeing, and pursue their musical passions.
17 UBC Alumni Bring Home 2018 Jessie Awards
UBC alumni were out in full force at the 2018 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, with 17 alumni bringing home awards.
Meet Arts Alumna Umang Khandelwal (BA’15): one of 5 Canadians chosen to participate in the G20 Youth Summit in China
Umang Khandelwal served in multiple leadership positions on campus, advocating for initiatives to improve the student academic experience and actively promoting intercultural understanding in her community.
Meet Arts Alumna Lauren Wright
Lauren Wright speaks on her experience at UBC and how the Romance Studies honours program was the perfect fit for her.
Stewart Dickson: Making Global Connections
Currently a Litigation Information Analyst with Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, Stewart continues to draw from his studies in Anthropology and African Studies in his work.
Theresa Harding: Grassroots Activism Comes Full Circle
Born and raised in Vancouver, Theresa Harding graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in sociology and gender, race, sexuality, and social justice (GRSJ) in 2000. While pursuing her degree later in life posed challenges in balancing her duties as a mother and responsibilities as a student, Theresa’s efforts were well worth it.
Meet Lau Mehes: Building QMUNITY
Lau Mehes’ work is so related to her Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ) studies, that she says she feels that her work now as a QMUNITY youth worker is an extension of her major.
Meet Dr. Anson Koo: A potent prescription for a career in medicine
Contrary to widespread belief, a career in medicine is often much more of an art than a science –this is an assessment that few can attest to with more confidence than UBC alumnus, Dr. Anson Koo. Dr. Koo earned his MD from UBC in 1998, and now, just over a decade later, is Head of Royal Columbian Hospital’s (RCH) Department of Psychiatry.