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Monday, June 27, 2022

Changes to UBC Service Levy

The UBC services levy is used to run the community centres, athletic and cultural facilities, and to maintain public spaces and infrastructure within UBC neighbourhoods.…
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Monday, June 27, 2022

Celebrating Pride on and off campus this June

Pride is celebrated each June to commemorate the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots, a key event in the fight for 2SLGBTQIA+ rights. Learn how you…
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Monday, June 27, 2022

Vancouver will continue to see warmer than average temperatures

Environment Canada has issued a heat warning for Metro Vancouver for the rest of today June 27, 2022 with inland temperatures reaching 34 degrees. Given…
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Thursday, June 23, 2022

Tomisin Bolorunduro joins Privacy and Information Security Management (PrISM) as Senior Advisor, Information Security Compliance, in Safety & Risk Services.

Tomisin is a Security Compliance professional who came to us most recently from Trulioo, a tech unicorn start-up in online identity verification. Her legal background,…
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Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Ken Sham joins UBC’s Financial Operations as the Manager, Contract and Supplier Management

Reporting to the Associate Director, Procurement Partnerships, Ken will be responsible for developing UBC’s contract management processes, practices and technologies to manage the university’s contracts…
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Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Indigenous People’s Day – June 21 

June is National Indigenous History Month and June 21 the National Indigenous Peoples Day – reminders to “recognize and celebrate the unique heritage, diverse cultures…
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Monday, June 20, 2022

Conor Cregg-Guinan and Denise Tang step into their new roles as Acting Operations Manager in Custodial Services within Facilities

Conor will look after the dayshift custodial operation, and assist with design reviews as well as implementation of the units workloading/QA platform, while Denise will…
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Friday, June 17, 2022

Driving safely on campus

Driving safely on and around UBC campuses is essential. To help, we have put together some basic safety guidelines to ensure a safe campus, and…
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Thursday, June 16, 2022

Pedestrian safety on campus

Safety practices for walking are just as important as those for riding on a bus or in a car. Click through for some simple road…
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Thursday, June 16, 2022

Equity & Inclusion Office working to make washrooms on campus more inclusive, accessible

The project started in 2019 when the Provost’s office asked representatives from UBC Infrastructure Development and the EIO to meet with external consultants to conduct…
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