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Prof. Yue Qian receives major funding for Coronavirus research.

Prof. Yue Qian receives major funding for Coronavirus research.

 
Yue Qian could only look on, feeling helpless, as COVID-19 ravaged her home city of Wuhan—the epicentre of an outbreak that has killed more than 3,000 people and infected more than 90,000 globally. “When the quarantine was first issued, I was
Prof. Renisa Mawani’s Book Shortlisted for Award by UK Socio-Legal Studies Association

Prof. Renisa Mawani’s book wins award from Association for Asian American Studies

 
Congratulations to UBC Sociology Professor Renisa Mawani. Her second book, Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire, was awarded the 2020 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Outstanding
Prof. Amin Ghaziani Receives two 'Top Cited Articles of 2018-19' Awards from Wiley Publishing

Prof. Amin Ghaziani Receives two ‘Top Cited Articles of 2018-19’ Awards from Wiley Publishing

 
Congratulations to Professor Amin Ghaziani for receiving two “Top Cited Article, 2018-2019” awards from Wiley publishing . His articles, Performative Progressiveness: Accounting for New Forms of Inequality in the Gayborhood (co-Authored with
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In the Media, Research

Prof Yue Qian Publishes Op-Ed on Social Isolation During COVID-19 Lockdown

March 25, 2020
Prof Yue Qian Publishes Op-Ed on Social Isolation During COVID-19 Lockdown
Achievement, In the Media, Research

Prof. Yue Qian receives major funding for Coronavirus research.

March 6, 2020
Prof. Yue Qian receives major funding for Coronavirus research.
In the Media, Research

Prof. Amy Hanser on the Unwritten Rules of the Bus in University Affairs

February 5, 2020
Prof. Amy Hanser on the Unwritten Rules of the Bus in University Affairs
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