The Faculty of Dentistry at the University of British Columbia has opened a clinical research centre focusing on best practices and evidence-based patient care thanks to a $1 million donation from Frontier Dental Laboratories. Named the Frontier Clinical Research Centre, the new initiative allows researchers and industry participants to evaluate and generate scientific data for

Prominent Canadian and British Columbian Irving K. Barber passed away peacefully at home on April 13 at the age of 89. “Ike,” as he preferred to be called, graduated from UBC’s Faculty of Forestry in 1950, having previously served during World War II for five years with the Royal Canadian Air Force. “Ike was a

A $5-million gift from arts philanthropist Michael Audain, through his family foundation, will establish a major new centre for the visual arts at the University of British Columbia, providing a leading-edge facility for future generations of Canadian artists. The donation will create the Audain Art Centre, an important new facility for UBC’s Dept. of Art

An object of global historical and cultural significance, received by explorer Captain James Cook from a Canadian First Nation during his final voyage (1776-1779), is being donated to the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA) by a leading arts philanthropist. Recently purchased through a private dealer in New York, and valued at $1.2

  An important collection of early works by one of Canada’s best loved artists, Bill Reid, can be seen by the public for the first time thanks to a major donation to UBC’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA) from Vancouver’s Friedman family. The Haida artist created eleven intricate pieces of gold and silver jewellery over a