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Philanthropy is having an ongoing impact on UBC and the world. Read the latest news updates about giving at UBC, as well as top stories from across the university.

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June 10, 2025

From Sri Lanka to Vancouver: UBC alum named to BC Business 30 Under 30 for healthcare innovation

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April 8, 2025

New Indigenous land stewardship degree will prepare the next generation of land protectors

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April 7, 2025

UBC opens Gordon B. Shrum Building, Canada’s first purpose-built biomedical engineering facility

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March 21, 2025

Refugee scholars are making an impact at UBC—with the help of donors

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March 19, 2025

TD Ready Challenge grant supports Indigenous entrepreneurs in UBC Sauder’s Ch’nook Management Program

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February 27, 2025

UBC Forestry awarded grant for Indigenous cultural fire and forest restoration

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February 6, 2025

A $1-million gift to UBC Athletics and Recreation aims to raise the bar for women athletes and coaches

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January 30, 2025

UBC Okanagan will help more youth explore engineering careers with Geering Up expansion

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December 17, 2024

UBC Okanagan partnerships fuel energy efficiency research for BC and beyond

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December 3, 2024

UBC researchers awarded $1M Wall Fellowships to tackle BC’s most significant environmental challenges

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November 27, 2024

$1 Million Gift from Lind Family extends the highly popular Phil Lind Initiative at UBC

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November 25, 2024

Powerhouse gift from BMO prepares UBC students and SMEs to lead the climate economy

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October 9, 2024

$7-million donation from Dan On Foundation seeds the future of food innovation at UBC

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September 27, 2024

Gift from professor emerita establishes the Merivale Visitors in Residence Program at Green College

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August 26, 2024

Students at the University of British Columbia receive Canada’s largest Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) scholarship

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July 2, 2024

UBC appoints Judy Rogers as new Chancellor

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June 11, 2024

$5.4M gift from Stone Foundation establishes Canada’s first Stone Centre on Wealth and Income Inequality at UBC’s Vancouver School of Economics

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May 24, 2024

Allard Law celebrates a historic gift to advance equity, diversity and inclusion and racial justice work

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April 22, 2024

New Chung | Lind Gallery brings B.C. histories together at UBC Library

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April 9, 2024

UBC launches Peter Wall Legacy Awards program

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February 29, 2024

Celebrating a decade of excellence in brain health

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December 12, 2023

UBC Forestry to launch Centre for Wildfire Coexistence

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October 27, 2023

Mosaic Forest Management invests in the future of forest leadership with UBC Forestry

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September 11, 2023

Students at the University of British Columbia receive Canada’s largest Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) scholarship

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July 20, 2023

Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon named UBC president

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April 25, 2023

UBC Giving Day raises over $800,000

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March 20, 2023

Spitz family extends their support of Fellows Program at the Sauder School of Business with additional $500,000

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March 8, 2023

A new beginning for Afghan judges forced to flee the Taliban

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March 6, 2023

UBC Applied Science and Teck announce $4M for mine tailings research and education

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February 13, 2023

Dale Ohman makes game-changing estate gift to UBC men’s volleyball

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December 7, 2022

$33.8M gift to transform MS research and save more lives, sooner

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October 20, 2022

RavenSpace at UBC Press receives third Mellon Foundation grant to expand collaborative multimedia Indigenous publishing program

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September 24, 2022

UBC powers FORWARD to drive decades of discovery and solutions

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September 20, 2022

Vancouver School of Economics receives $1M gift from business leader Dominic Barton

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September 2, 2022

Students at the University of British Columbia receive Canada’s largest Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) scholarship

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July 13, 2022

Santa Ono to leave UBC Presidency in October 2022

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May 10, 2022

UBC Blue & Gold Campaign surpasses goal

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April 21, 2022

UBC’s Southern Medical Program celebrates 10 years of graduating doctors in B.C.’s Interior

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March 24, 2022

Dr. Michael Kobor to lead new UBC research program in healthy aging

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March 14, 2022

What’s your cause? Show the world on UBC Giving Day

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February 1, 2022

New scholarship program supports Black Canadian students at UBC

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January 26, 2022

UBC-led research team finds nine new coronavirus species

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January 14, 2022

William Shakespeare’s First Folio published in 1623 gifted to UBC Library

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October 25, 2021

Community partners celebrate launch of UBC’s Drone Transport Initiative

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October 22, 2021

$1.25 million gift creates enduring support for students and clinical research

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October 5, 2021

UBC is proud to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Schulich Leader Scholarships, Canada’s largest STEM scholarship

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September 15, 2021

UBC alumnus makes $4 million gift to fund crucial COVID-19 medical research and virtual dental care for vulnerable communities

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August 30, 2021

Philanthropy helps build momentum for Indigenous leadership in healthcare

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August 24, 2021

Students at the University of British Columbia receive Canada’s largest Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) scholarship

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June 29, 2021

Black Opportunity Fund partners with UBC to empower next generation of Black leaders

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June 2, 2021

Donors establish first-ever student award to support incoming Black Canadian students at Allard Law

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May 5, 2021

Historic collection from the Klondike Gold Rush gifted to UBC in $2.5M donation

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January 26, 2021

UBC receives $750K TD Ready Challenge grant to deliver health care supplies by drone to remote B.C

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January 20, 2021

New UBC professorship to advance addiction medicine in B.C.

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January 12, 2021

Alumni Builder Awards

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October 9, 2020

$1M gift from Stober Foundation to support UBCO students and public health

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September 9, 2020

Rise Up: Donor-funded community clinic is busier than ever during pandemic

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August 24, 2020

Ten UBC students receive Canada’s largest Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) scholarship

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August 14, 2020

Professor Santa J. Ono reappointed as president and vice-chancellor of UBC

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July 14, 2020

New gift will provide full tuition support for ten law students annually

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June 15, 2020

UBC joins with leading BC medical research and public health organizations to form BC COVID-19 Combat Collective

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May 26, 2020

Donor-funded law clinic at UBC takes extraordinary steps to continue supporting Indigenous communities during outbreak

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February 20, 2020

UBC remembers Dr. Robert H. Lee, CM, OBC

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January 24, 2020

Schulich Leader Scholarships doubles in size – with up to $900,000 being made available for UBC STEM students

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December 16, 2019

A brighter future for mental health research

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October 11, 2019

Doctors of BC announces winner of inaugural Doctors of BC Presidential Scholars Award

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October 4, 2019

Students at the University of British Columbia receive Canada’s largest Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) scholarship

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September 17, 2019

Diamond Foundation donates $1M to support Jewish studies at UBC

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September 3, 2019

UBC doubles student fundraising target to help realize more student potential

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April 16, 2019

Putting Canada at the forefront of precision medicine

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April 8, 2019

First-of-its-kind imaging facility to accelerate brain research at UBC

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March 15, 2019

Vard $1.5 million gift advances marine engineering research and learning at UBC

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March 13, 2019

New funding extends impact of UBC’s Centre for Gambling Research

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March 3, 2019

UBC Okanagan hosts first-ever Giving Day

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September 27, 2018

Dentists and students to learn together at UBC clinic made possible by $1.8M donation

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August 22, 2018

Students at the University of British Columbia receive Canada’s largest Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) scholarship

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July 25, 2018

Grad students get new scholarships to help build the best B.C.

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July 9, 2018

New home for sports medicine and exercise science opens at UBC

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July 5, 2018

UBC celebrates Stewart and Marilyn Blusson and a major expansion of quantum materials labs

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July 4, 2018

UBC’s Museum of Anthropology receives Northwest Coast art collection worth $1.1M

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July 4, 2018

UBC appoints Heather McCaw, vice-president, development and alumni engagement

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June 28, 2018

UBC alumnus donation enables salmon creek restoration in Pacific Spirit Regional Park

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June 18, 2018

‘Mr. UBC’ wins CCAE Friend of Education Award

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March 7, 2018

Healthy aging research at UBC expands with $24-million gift

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January 9, 2018

UBC receives $4.9 million for global Buddhist academic network

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November 27, 2017

UBC announces $100-million fundraising campaign for students

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August 21, 2017

Students at the University of British Columbia receive Canada’s largest STEM scholarship

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July 12, 2017

$6-million donation creates largest ever endowed scholarship at UBC

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April 3, 2017

Reconciliation Pole installed on UBC Vancouver campus

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March 17, 2017

FNHA and UBC establish chair to prevent cancer and improve wellbeing

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March 13, 2017

Scotiabank funds $2-million cybersecurity and financial data initiative at UBC

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February 16, 2017

UBC’s Next Century

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