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Course-Based Programs Application Week begins October 19

Thursday, 1 October 2026

Prospective students interested in applying to course-based programs can explore a week of programming October 19 to 23.

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Rockne Hewko, Academic Support Manager, receives President's Staff Award

Monday, 28 September 2026

Rock received the President’s Staff Award for Leadership in his position on the Student Academic Support team at G+PS.

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Reimagining a collaborative future: new cohort of Public Scholars announced

Thursday, 24 September 2026

This year's PSI cohort includes 33 doctoral scholars from the UBC Vancouver campus, and four from UBC Okanagan.

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Dr Slobodov investigated the consequences of dimensionally reducing space-times with rotational symmetry. This is a useful technique for simplifying a variety of problems in general relativity, including the numerical simulation of head-on black hole collisions. He found that reduced space-times tend to have singularities, negative energy and faster-than-light matter flows, complicating numerical simulations.

A randomly-selected Doctoral citation each day: today from the Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (PhD) - graduated in 2011