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2020 Friedman Award for Scholars in Health recipients announced

Tuesday, 21 July 2020

Twelve graduate students doing research in the field of health have received this year’s Friedman Award for Scholars in Health.

Honouring this year's Indigenous graduates

Thursday, 25 June 2020

Congratulations to all Indigenous graduate students who graduated in 2020! On June 27, the First Nations House of Learning is hosting a virtual graduation celebration to honour and recognize the educational achievements of participating Indigenous graduates.

Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship and Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship winners announced

Friday, 19 June 2020

Twenty-one doctoral students at UBC have received a Vanier Canada Graduate Fellowship, and three postdoctoral fellows have received a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship.

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Dr. Lyon studied the third age, a life course stage promoted by academic, professional and popular texts consisting of a healthy, prosperous, flexible retirement. Her ethnographic work showed that low-income women from the baby boomer generation interpreted these discourses in distinct ways according to their class, gender, and status.

A randomly-selected Doctoral citation each day: today from the Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (PhD) - graduated in 2017