In a 2014 study, Elizabeth Dunn, associate professor of psychology at UBC, invited people on their way into a coffee shop. One group was asked to seek out an interaction (互动) with its waiter; the other, to speak only wh...
I face a growing dilemma on a daily basis given my role within UBC’s new international student program and how the university has progressively embraced the marketization of higher education (Quinlan 2014). Despite the creation of theeducational leadership streamat UBC there is still a premise th...
We recognize the linguistic and cultural assets English Learners bring to the classroom, and ensuring they achieve academic success with rigorous grade-level content is our priority. What is an asset-based philosophy? An approach to curriculum development and instruction in which a student'...
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For instance, “[it] is a sort of recurring trend that if you are a forestry student, you should like to hunt, you should hate predators, especially wolves” (Interview 16, academia). This conformity is reproduced at the highest levels of forest governance, as one interviewee recalled: “...
Lauterbur may have developed the idea of MRI one day in a brainstorm at a suburban Pittsburgh Restaurant, with the MRI's first model scribbled on a table napkin while he was a student and researcher at both the University of Pittsburgh and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. He had...
The evidence for statements characterizing the site as wasteland is contestable, given that, prior to summer 2007, the park area was home to several hundred residents in low-cost housing, trailer parks, and student apartments, as well as over 280 businesses with ca. 5,000 employees (Centre ...
The survey found that 43% of the residents disagreed with the statement that the number and type of trees in their neighbourhood created a pleasant, green environment (City of Surrey, 2011). This sentiment is reflected in a newspaper article at the time, where a resident criticizes that “...
Well, we have found out the situation here is that one cannot apply directly to a specialist doctor, but instead you have to have your family doctor refer you … in my country, one goes directly to the doctor one wants.” (permanent resident, 2.1 years in Canada). Maria's experience ...