Community Engagement

Community Engagement Story Archive

Community Engagement Story Archive

Current and past stories listed on the Community Engagement home page can be found here.

UBC Connects: Masterclass with Kevin Kwan (March 4)

Represent, Represent: The stories we tell change the world around us

Desmond Cole & Robyn Maynard

UBC Connects: Desmond Cole & Robyn Maynard (March 12)

Beyond the Police state: a conversation with Desmond Cole and Robyn Maynard

ISF celebrates 10 years with 10 weeks of online events

UBC is proud to be a major partner of the Indian Summer Festival.

Kids running at UBC farm

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UBC President Santa Ono

COVID-19: Community Engagement in Unprecedented Times

UBC President Prof. Santa J. Ono reflects on UBC’s civic role and the resilience of local and global communities

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Community-University Engagement Support Fund 2019-20 Recipients Announced!

The CUES fund recently awarded $500,000 to 20+ community organizations partnering with faculty, staff, and students in UBCO and UBCV

Read the report from the UBC President’s Roundtable on Migration & Integration

“As both a settlement community and university, UBC can help newcomers to thrive.”

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CEN: Join the Community Engagement Network at Chinatown House

The Community Engagement Network visits Chinatown House to learn how teaching, learning, and research are used for knowledge mobilization.

James Makokis and Anthony Johnson

UBC Connects: “Our Existences Are Political” (Sept 23)

Join the conversation with James Makokis and Anthony Johnson, the first two-spirit Indigenous couple to win the Amazing Race Canada.

EVENT: Is It Time to Wave the Flag?

Marking 50 years after the partial decriminaization of homosexuality in Canada.

EVENT: Millennial Urban Leadership

Presented by Cobalt Strategy Group and the SPPGA. Co-sponsored by UBC Community Engagement Office and UBC Robson Square.

EVENT: Why Should I Care? Refugees and Canada in 2019

Presented by AMSSA and UBC Migration. Co-sponsored by the UBC Community Engagement Office and UBC Robson Square.

UBC embarks on Canada-wide initiative to assess community engagement

This year, UBC has joined an intensive and collaborative process that aims to transform community engagement in Canadian institutions.

How can an obscure medieval play make a meaningful contribution to present-day Vancouver?

A recent partnership, funded in part by CUES, between Bard on the Beach and researchers from UBC holds the answer.

Three insights from the President’s Roundtable on Non-Market Housing Innovation

President Ono reflects on insights community leaders shared with UBC leadership at the last roundtable.

Red Fox youth get active with UBC Kinesiology

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SALA students address the Arbutus Greenway

Environmental design students share their ideas with City of Vancouver reviewers

Project Seahorse

Project Seahorse plays a major role in helping Thailand suspend seahorse exports

UBC’s Project Seahorse worked to develop the first ever global trade agreement regulations on export of marine fish.

Community-based science in Micronesia

Training helps Ulithi community members sustain successful management of their reefs into the future.

UBCO Think Tank

UBCO Faculty of Education works with rural educators in Small School Think Tank

Small schools tackle big problems in 2-day event on a way forward for rural community schools

Aboriginal Womens INtervention

Aboriginal Women’s Intervention program benefits indigenous women experiencing violence

UBC nursing professor and her colleagues evaluate culturally safe intervention program for indigenous women who have left abusive partners

Musqueam partnership

Musqueam post dedicated at UBC Vancouver campus

Musqueam post acknowledges developing partnership between Musqueam people and UBC

Dadaab humanitarian

Humanitarian endeavor underway in Dadaab Refugee Camps with UBC Education and Moi University

Residents of Dadaab refugee camp in NE Kenya gain university diploma in secondary teacher education

Community grants light the way

UBC student partners with Options Community Service Society to create ‘Snoezelen room’

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Building Community, One Conversation at a Time

Third-year students’ participate in Mandarin language exchange program at the Learning Exchange in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

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Maya in Exile Garden

Mayan families practice farming traditions at UBC Farm and keep millennia-old cultural knowledge alive for future generations

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Listen, Speak, See, Feel: Boosting Language Learning Through Ultrasound

eNunciate, a UBC-developed web-based biovisual tool, uses ultrasound technology with W̱SÁNEĆ First Nation to help reclaim their language

Awakening the Spirit: Revitalization of Canoeing in Musqueam

Musqueam and UBC Social Work, Education and Forestry work together to revitalize traditional knowledge

Campus and community planning principles

UTown@UBC Community Grants

Grants of up to $1,000 for projects that foster connectedness between UTown@UBC residents

SmartMom Program Texts Prenatal Info to New Moms

Wall Solutions Supports digital prenatal education project

NITEP Coordinators work with Aboriginal Educators

NITEP teacher education program honours diverse Aboriginal traditions and philosophies

UBC Partners with Industry for Capstone Projects

External partners work with Engineering students to provide solutions for real people

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A Road Less Travelled

UBC and partners collectively develop plan for expanding medical education across BC

Campus and community planning principles

Campus & Community Planning Engagement

C&CP develops community engagement principles for constructive dialogue

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Think & Eat Green @ School

Think & Eat Green @ School builds healthy and sustainable school food systems

First STAR project a collaboration between UBC, Helios Global Technologies, and Imperial College

First STAR Project a Collaboration (UBCO)

First STAR Project a Collaboration Between UBC, Helios Technologies, and Imperial College

UBC Health Mentors Program

Health Mentors Program: students learn from people with chronic conditions or disabilities

UBC and St'át'imc First Nations partner to study salmon migration

UBC and St’át’imc First Nations partner

UBC and St’át’imc First Nations partner to study salmon migration

LFS scientists awarded $2.9M to improve nutrition of rural Cambodian women and children

Improving nutrition in rural Cambodia

LFS scientists work with Cambodian famers to produce affordable and nutritious food

Engineering students design floor extension for Mt Pleasant Neighbourhood House

Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House floor extension

Engineering students design floor extension for Mt Pleasant Neighbourhood House

The Indigenous teachings that Jo-Ann Archibald passes on are about community, family, and are place-based

Passing on Indigenous teachings

The Indigenous teachings that Jo-Ann Archibald passes on are about community, family, and are place-based

UBC MD students and their teddy bears build healthy communities

UBC MD students and their teddy bears build healthy communities

Refugee Teacher Education

Professors Samson Nashon and Rita Irwin work to develop a Teacher Education Program in Daadab Refugee Camp