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Wednesday, March 4, 2020

VPFO Gathers for Pink Shirt Day 2020

Team members from across the VPFO gathered on February 26 to celebrate Pink Shirt Day 2020, and talk about respect, diversity and inclusion.
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Monday, March 2, 2020

Indian Residential School History & Dialogue Centre wins 2019 North American Copper in Architecture Award

The only winner in Western Canada, UBC's Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) features a standing seam copper roof that embodies the Coast…
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Friday, February 28, 2020

And the winners of our premium emergency ranger kits are…

Find out who the lucky contest winners are from the UBC Emergency Ranger Station event on February 13
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Thursday, February 27, 2020

Help UBC create design guidelines for more inclusive washrooms & changing rooms

Last month, Infrastructure Development and Equity & Inclusive office hosted three pop-up open house events to engage with UBC students, faculty, and staff to get…
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Thursday, February 27, 2020

Jeetender Amritsar joins Building Operations as Facilities Manager

Jeetender is the successful candidate to take over the Teal zone after Rob Macdonald retires at the end of March 2020. He will start his…
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Sunday, February 23, 2020

VPFO Pink Shirt Day 2019/20 Staff Video

To capture the spirit of inclusion, in 2019 we worked with our partners at UBC Studios to create a video that captures some of the…
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Thursday, February 20, 2020

Students, faculty and staff get Ranger Ready in The Nest

On February 13, 2020 the AMS Student Nest was transformed into the UBC Emergency Ranger Station, where the Emergency Management team helped the UBC community…
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Thursday, February 20, 2020

Legal Opinion Confirms the Way Forward to Divestment

On Dec. 5, 2019, the Board of Governors formally directed VP Finance and UBC Counsel to lay out a pathway to full divestment of the…
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Thursday, February 20, 2020

Statement on passing of Robert H. Lee

It is with deep sadness and a great sense of loss that we learned of the passing of Dr. Robert (Bob) H. Lee, CM, OBC,…
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Monday, February 17, 2020

Meghan Kerr joins Infrastructure Development as Construction Document Administrator with Project & Planning Business Systems

As the new Construction Document Administrator, Meghan will support Project Services in ensuring there is clear and consistent document management between the Project Managers and…
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