UBC Students visit City Hall to meet with Vancouver Mayor
UBC Students visited Vancouver’s City Hall to meet with Mayor, Kennedy Stewart. They were given a tour and an opportunity to have a Q&A with the mayor himself.
Undergrad. Student Vahid Rashidi publishes an article in the The International Journal of Sport and Society
“Tractor Sazi FC and the Civil Rights Movement of Turks in Iranian Azerbaijan” Abstract: The Tractor Sazi football club was founded in 1970 in Tabriz, the largest city of Iranian Azerbaijan, in which the majority of Iran’s ethnic Turkish population is concentrated. In the past few years, after it excelled to the level of Iranian […]
Undergrad. Kennedy Wong receives the Pacific Sociological Association Undergraduate Student Paper Award
The Distinguished Undergraduate Student Paper Award recognizes an undergraduate student or students for a paper of high professional quality.
Engage Sociology Newsletter: February Events and Opportunities
Read the latest of the Engage Sociology newsletter from the UBC Sociology Undergraduate Program here. Still have not signed up for Engage Sociology? Sign up HERE.
Undergrad. Student, Veronica Cho, has been awarded two prestigious awards from UBC
Veronica Cho has been selected as a Wesbrook Scholar and is the recipient of the HSBC Emerging Leader Scholarship.
Undergrad. Kennedy Wong receives Faces of Today Award at Student Leadership Conference
Kennedy has been conducting research on homelessness for three years, he also co-founded a community action to redistribute the leftover food from campus to the homeless community.
Undergrad. Student, Siqi Xiao, was awarded the UBC International Community Achievement Award
The award is available to continuing international undergraduate students at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver Campus, who have demonstrated leadership in one or more of the following areas: community service, international engagement, intercultural understanding, promotion of diversity, intellectual pursuits, and artistic or athletic endeavours. Awards are made on the recommendation of a selection committee […]
Undergrad. Student, Alex Chow, was awarded the Katherine Brearley Arts Scholarship
The Katherine Brearley Arts Scholarship is awarded to a student who exhibits both scholarly excellence and the demonstrated ability to work with and lead others in student and community activities at the university, local, national, and/or international level.
Sojourners: Call for Papers!
The Undergraduate Journal of Sociology at UBC, Sojourners, are now accepting paper submissions for Volume 11! Submission deadline is December 7th by 11:59pm. Visit their website for submission guidelines.
Sociology student, Abubakar Khan, was mentioned in the Georgia Straight
Khan’s platform focuses on ending isolation and loneliness in Vancouver by addressing the affordable housing issue and encouraging intergenerational housing.