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You are invited to a public consultation on enhancing student experience and housing in the University Boulevard area

To meet the significant demand for more student residences and to address affordability, UBC is looking to add additional student and university housing, as well as academic sites, into the centre of campus.

We are seeking input on proposed sites near Brock Hall, Gage Towers, and Peter A. Allard School of Law.

Public Open Houses

March 6, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., I.K. Barber 
March 8, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., AMS Nest

You are invited to celebrate the installation of the new street signs designed in partnership with Musqueam.

The Musqueam street signs were created to give a bilingual experience while travelling on campus roads and acknowledge the linguistic heritage of the UBC’s Point Grey Campus. They will supplement the English names with names in hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓, the traditional language of the Musqueam people.

The University Boulevard water feature has undergone a transformation to support local biodiversity as competitive plants are replaced with friendlier species.

Musqueam Elder Larry Grant is Elder in Residence at the First Nations House of Learning, and Adjunct Professor in the First Nations and Endangered Languages program at UBC, where he teaches hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓, the Musqueam language. As UBC installs Musqueam signage on campus, he talks about what the Point Grey area means to his people.

“It’s been a long time coming,” says Larry Grant, an 81-year-old Musqueam Elder. He’s standing by the Musqueam pole on University Boulevard, in front of the bookstore.

For the fifth annual UBC waste audit, volunteers learnt about our sorting habits by hand-sorting 17 bins of trash, recycling, and food scraps from the AMS Nest.

An innovative approach to building codes garners recognition from the Province of BC.

Building the world’s tallest mass timber building proved to be a challenge for everyone involved in the Brock Common’s Tallwood House project. With BC’s Building Code designed to regulate the construction of tall buildings to be made of concrete and steel, the construction material and methods required an innovative approach.

The Sustainability Soirée recognizes faculty, staff, and student contributions in advancing sustainability at UBC

UTown @UBC Baby Senior Sing-Along brings seniors, parents and preschool children together, in an intergenerational sing-along

“Kids are so precious” says Nan Dagan. She is singing loudly to “Itsy Bitsy Spider,” smiling at a dozen children joining the chorus from a mat in front of her wheelchair. “We have children, grandchildren and great grandchildren in Ontario, but none out here.”

Feed your appetite for food, friends and culture

Nothing says “cozy” like a night of food, art and culture to bring in the fall season. This year marks the fifth year of Harvest Feastival, an epic feast featuring fresh local food from the UBC Farm, followed by an evening of arts and culture programming.

To mark the 5th year of the Harvest Feastival, you can vote for which of your favorite dishes of years past you’d like to have again. We’ve also got some special surprises in store that will help you get in the perfect UBC school spirit.

Look back on the history of neighbourhood planning at UBC with Campus and Community Planning.

When Joanne Proft is asked why UBC uses some of its land for residential development, she often responds by showing a map from 1926. It shows an unbroken sea of roads and houses, covering all of Point Grey.