#University of British Columbia

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Demonstrators have set up an encampment at the University of British Columbia campus to show support for Gaza and Palestinians. In a news release, organizers said they are “calling on the University of British Columbia to divest from Israel’s settler colonial occupation, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of Palestinians, and to participate in global academic boycotts of Israeli universities.” In a statement, UBC said it values freedom of expression and respects peaceful protest. “We understand that some in our community want to protest the violence and war they see unfolding. These actions must always be taken with respect for others and within the boundaries of university policy and the law. “Any actions that create a health and safety risk, impede the university community (students, faculty and staff) from continuing learning, research, work and other activities on campus, or damage university property will be taken very seriously and investigated.”

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Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

#UBC #university of british columbia #British columbia #Gaza #Palestine #cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics

[science70]

Lower magnet sectors being assembled in the cyclotron vault of the TRIUMF particle accelerator, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1971.

#science #physics #technology #particle accelerator #TRIUMF #University of British Columbia #Vancouver #British Columbia #Canada #1971

[flowerishness]

Ceratostigma plumbaginoides (hardy blue-flowered leadwort)

Today, I took my camera to the Botanical Gardens at UBC. I wandered around like a kid in a candy store for three hours and took these shots in the rock garden. I think the little blue flowers of this leadwort look particularly attractive against its autumn foliage.

#flowers #photographers on tumblr #leadwort #blue #autumn #fleurs #flores #fiori #blumen #bloemen #University of British Columbia #vancouver

[eopederson2]

Totem pole, Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2000.

#museum #totem #museum of anthropology #university of british columbia #vancouver #british columbia #canada #2000 #photographers on tumblr #pnw #pacific northwest

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

[ Archived snapshot: https://archive.md/9EclE ]

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People are surprisingly proud of the return of segregation.

#Free Black Thought #Jonathan Kay #segregation #identify as #i identify as #racial segregation #University of British Columbia #race crazy #antiracism #antiracism as religion #religion is a mental illness

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Researcher creates wood-based alternative to single-use plastic

University of British Columbia researcher Dr. Feng Jiang has developed a cellulose film that looks like plastic and behaves like plastic—but is biodegradable.

Dr. Jiang's process breaks down wood fibers (sourced from forest waste) in a solution of cold sodium hydroxide combined with mild mechanical blending. The sodium hydroxide is then recycled. The result is a translucent, strong and water-resistant film.

Other researchers have also developed cellulosic films, but the UBC project is the first to use small amounts of energy and chemicals in the manufacture.

Like conventional plastic, the film can be made into coffee bags or chip bags, pouches (like pouches for cereal or frozen fruit), or protective wrap like bubble wrap or envelopes.

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#Materials Science #Science #Plastics #Polymers #Biodegradable #Wood #Cellulose #University of British Columbia

[dipstick-university]

From the UBC Social Justice Centre: While we study at UBC, the Israeli genocide of Palestinians continues halfway across the world. The distance between stolen Coast Salish territories and Occupied Palestine might give the impression that our university is detached from the Zionist system of apartheid. In reality, the flows of global capital and academic exchange have implicated UBC in Israeli crimes against humanity.

UBC’s latest holdings disclosure report revealed that the Board of Governors had approved investments of over $66 MILLION in banks and companies complicit in the Zionist settler-colonial occupation of Palestine, the Israeli apartheid system, and the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

Over $10 MILLION is invested in notorious weapons manufacturers like Airbus, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, BAE Systems, and Elbit Systems, all of which are currently supplying the Israeli Occupation Forces with the weapons used to massacre Palestinians in Gaza.

In order to educate our community on UBC’s complicity in the genocide, the Social Justice Centre’s International Solidarity working group partnered with Graduate Students for Palestine to produce this resource: the UBC Apartheid Investment Database. Please find the full list of companies linked in our bio.

We hope that this resource deepens your understanding of the connections between settler-colonial occupation, oppression, and dispossession from the Salish Seas to Palestine. We also hope that it highlights the responsibility we all have as UBC students to stand against racism, militarism, and apartheid.

We cannot let this be normal. It is our duty to honour Palestinians’ own calls for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) by loudly and clearly rejecting the Board of Governors’ undemocratic and unconscionable choice to fund companies profiting from the systematic annihilation of Palestinians.

#Palestine #israel #university of british columbia #UBC #i wish all ubc portfolio managers a very unpleasant existence

[thecanadianweeb]

#aesthetic #photography #university of british columbia #cybercore aesthetic #y2k aesthetic #cleancore #liminal #tech aesthetic #health goth

[annapolisrose]

UBC

#university of british columbia #ubc #campus #orchard commons #local #vancouver #photographers on tumblr #google pixel

[scars-g]

Vancouver, British Columbia

#vancouver #ubcs #travel #canada #jeff buckley #cherry blossom #vietnamese food #pho #spring #british columbia #university of british columbia #Spotify

[fisarmonical]

Bookplate for Fred Bowman. Source:  University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. Thomas Murray Bookplates Collection. Leslie Binder.

#rare books #university of british columbia #bookplate #smoking pipe #pipemen #pipesmoking #pipes #fireplace #vintagemen #vintage #cat

[wan-day]

Sunday, January 15

Hi! Wani here. 

Today is another rainy day in Vancouver. Not too much rain, just drizzling, but still, need an umbrella to go for a walk. Today is not a special day, just me being bored already with all these academic things so I decided to start writing this. I'm not gonna pressure myself to write every day, I do just when I want.

This morning I found a new menu in the dining hall. Another banana menu but still new because I haven't seen it here before.

After I have my breakfast, I'm going to IKB Learning Centre (yes, an average UBC student) to avoid the eat-sleep-eat-sleep habit this weekend and do my homework which is due next week. I found that I will be more productive if I go away from my lovely room, so lately, I'm trying to push myself to stay away from my dorm. 

This is me when I want to pray in the back corner of the library.

and this is the view from my seat

IKB is one of my fav study spots regardless of how bad the smell of the washroom is.

I hope that I can share more about things and stuff but I'm not a creative person so I don't know what to share.

#student #library #student life #university of british columbia

[indizombie]

Suzanne Simard, an ecologist at the University of British Columbia, has found that there are family relationships between trees and that, through their roots and fungus, they communicate with each other and shuffle resources around. Author and researcher Diana Beresford Kroeger has argued that the abundant aerosols that trees emit, such as terpenes and limonenes, are natural antibiotics, antivirals and chemo-preventatives that help keep the natural world – including humans – healthy.

Jim Robbins, ‘The genetic power of ancient trees’, BBC

#BBC #Jim Robbins #Suzanne Simard #University of British Columbia #family relationships between trees #Diana Beresford Kroeger #terpenes #limonenes #health

[eopederson2]

Eagle, Anthropology Museum, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2000.

#sculpture #eagle #northwest coast first nations #museum #anthropology museum #university of british columbia #vancouver #british columbia #2000 #photographers on tumblr #pacific northwest #pnw

[beatrack92]

Holly MacGillivray (British Columbia)

2022 WWU Team Invitational (Bellingham, WA)

#holly macgillivray #university of british columbia #ubc thunderbirds #ncaa #running #athletics #track and field

[materialsscienceandengineering]

A new copper coating that kills bacteria quicker and in greater amounts than current formulations could soon be available for hospitals and other high-traffic facilities.

Although current formulations made of pure copper are antibacterial and self-sanitizing, they kill certain types of bacteria with a thicker cell wall (Gram-positive bacteria), more slowly than bacteria with a thinner cell wall (Gram-negative).

A team of UBC researchers led by Dr. Amanda Clifford, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Engineering, have designed a nano-copper coating that includes bacteria-killing nanoscale features and zinc. The nanoscale features are tiny bumps that can kill bacteria by rupturing their cell wall. Zinc, which is also antibacterial, selectively oxidizes in the presence of copper and helps kill bacteria more quickly compared to pure copper alone.

"Use of our coating could significantly reduce the incidence of contracting bacterial infections from high-touch surfaces in healthcare facilities, such as doorknobs and elevator buttons, since it kills bacteria using multiple approaches," says Dr. Clifford. "As it contains less copper than other existing coatings or whole copper parts, it would also be cheaper to make."

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#Materials Science #Science #Copper #Coatings #Medical technology #Antibacterial #University of British Columbia