University of British Columbia

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The University of British Columbia (UBC ) is a public university in the Canadian province of British Columbia. At the University of 47,711 students are enrolled. The British newspaper The Times Higher Education Supplement included the University in their annual university rankings conducted by The Times Higher World University Rankings 2011 of the top 200 universities worldwide. In 2011, the University reached the rank 22 It is thus the second best university in Canada according to the University of Toronto.

Location

The main campus is located at Point Grey in the University Endowment Lands, an unincorporated area immediately west of the city of Vancouver. At three locations in the city of Vancouver itself, the University has other facilities; the campus at Vancouver General Hospital, UBC Robson Square in the city center and the campus on Great Northern Way. Another campus, UBC Okanagan, located in Kelowna.

Divisions

The University has the following faculties:

  • Faculty of Applied Science (includes among others engineering fields, architecture, natural sciences)
  • Faculty of Arts ( including, inter alia, anthropology, language - Cultural Studies)
  • Sauder School of Business (includes Economics and Law )
  • Faculty of Medicine ( Medical Sciences )
  • Faculty of Education ( Educational Sciences )
  • Faculty of Forestry ( Forestry Sciences )
  • Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences ( Pharmaceutical Sciences )

Continue the university has the following Colleges:

  • College of Health Disciplines
  • College for Interdisciplinary Studies

Organization and institutions

President of the University is 2006 Stephen Toope since July 1. His term was extended for a further five years in July 2011. In 2009, UBC had 3,694 full-time teachers and 9,727 other full time employees. The UBC is one of two Canadian universities ( in addition to the McGill University in Montreal ), which belongs to the university network Universitas 21. The University of British Columbia Library, with more than 6.3 million books and periodicals, 5.3 million microfilms and millions of other formats, the second largest research library in Canada. TRIUMF, the largest cyclotron in the world, is also located on the premises of the university.

Graduate School

Postgraduate degrees ( PhD, MA / MSc) administered at the University of British Columbia from the Faculty of Graduate Studies ( Vancouver ) or the College of Graduate Studies ( Okanagan ) in collaboration with the individual faculties and programs. The special feature at UBC is that in research- based programs is no distinction in the level of tuition fees for international and Canadian students is taken as is otherwise common worldwide. Instead, the tuition fees move in direct comparison to other Anglo-American / Commonwealth countries at a relatively affordable level.

Known teachers (excerpt)

  • Kenelm Burridge, anthropologist
  • Meryn Cadell, performance artist
  • Alfred -Maurice de Zayas, international lawyer, historian and writer
  • Hans Georg Dehmelt, physicist and Nobel laureate
  • Steven Galloway, author
  • Leona Gom, writer and university teacher
  • Michael Ignatieff, politicians
  • Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist and Nobel laureate
  • Har Gobind Khorana, a molecular biologist and Nobel Prize laureate
  • Shoshichi Kobayashi, mathematician ( differential geometry )
  • Philippe Kruchten, computer
  • Beverley McLachlin, judge and legal theorist
  • George McWhirter, Canadian writer, translator and university teacher of Northern Irish origin
  • Richard J. Pearson, an archaeologist
  • Nick Pippenger, theoretical computer science
  • Robin Ridington, anthropologist
  • Jane Rule, author
  • Jacqueline Samuda, actress and author
  • Thomas Schneider, Egyptologist
  • Carol Shields, writer
  • Michael Smith, a chemist and Nobel Prize winner
  • David Suzuki, genetic researchers
  • Warren Tallman, literary scholar
  • Audrey Thomas, writer and university teacher
  • Bill Unruh, a physicist
  • Rudolf Vrba, pharmacologist
  • Ian Watt, literary critic and literary historian
  • Carl E. Wieman, physicist and Nobel laureate

Known graduates (excerpt)

  • Carol Bolt (1941-2000), Canadian playwright
  • Peter Borwein ( born 1953 ), Canadian mathematician
  • Raffi Cavoukian ( b. 1948 ), singer and composer of children's songs
  • Justin Chatwin ( b. 1982 ), Canadian actor
  • Anne Chislett ( born 1942 ), Canadian author
  • Patricia Churchland ( born 1943 ), Canadian philosopher
  • Frank Davey ( born 1940 ), Canadian poet, writer and former university lecturer
  • Ujjal Dosanjh ( b. 1947 ), Canadian- Indian lawyer and politician
  • Robert C. Feenstra ( born 1956 ), American economist
  • William Gibson ( born 1948 ), American author
  • Charles Lillard (1944-1997), Canadian poet and historian
  • Evangeline Lilly ( born 1979 ), Canadian actress
  • Alexina Louie ( b. 1949 ), Canadian composer
  • Daphne Marlatt ( b. 1942 ), Canadian writer and feminist
  • Suleka Mathew, Canadian- Indian actress
  • Barry McKinnon ( b. 1944 ), Canadian poet
  • Robert Mundell ( born 1932 ), Canadian economist and Nobel Prize winner
  • Stan Persky, ( b. 1941 ) Canadian writer, media commentator and lecturer
  • Eva Maria Roer (* 1944), German entrepreneur
  • Beat Sterchi ( b. 1949 ), Swiss writer
  • Madeleine Thien ( born 1974 ), Chinese - Malay -born Canadian writer
  • Justin Trudeau ( b. 1971 ), politician and leader of the Liberal Party
  • Deborah Kara Unger ( born 1963 ), Canadian actress
  • Fred Wah ( born 1939 ), Canadian poet, writer and former university lecturer
  • Jeff Wall ( b. 1946 ), Canadian photo artist
  • David Ricardo Williams ( * 1923-1999 ), Canadian lawyer, historian and writer
  • Kareen Zebroff, ( b. 1941 ), Canadian yoga teacher of German origin
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