Categorizing Chopping Spree, a Vancouver band with roots at UBC, is difficult. Their new album, however, focuses on transcribing jazz onto Vancouver's underground music scene — and people can't get enough of it. Read more.
During the 2024-25 academic year, 38 student volunteers collectively poured 3,600 hours into running AMS Peer Support, a service dedicated to helping UBC students dealing with academic stress, substance use and other issues impacting mental well-being.
Photographer and UBC alum Cassidy Chen has already shot shows at Paris Fashion Week and made Forbes' 30 Under 30 list, but she isn't planning on slowing down anytime soon.
Categorizing Chopping Spree, a Vancouver band with roots at UBC, is difficult. Their new album, however, focuses on transcribing jazz onto Vancouver's underground music scene — and people can't get enough of it.
For 52 years, Dave Doroghy and his carollers have taken to the streets of West Point Grey to spread holiday cheer. But what started as nothing more than a few teenagers taking advantage of the lenient alcohol rules in the Doroghy household has become something much bigger.
It’s a regular afternoon for Nazreen Cameron as she prepares roti and chicken curry in her kitchen, when she gets the sudden urge to check her phone. She sees multiple missed messages alerting her she has received an award at UBC and asks her son for confirmation, assuming it to be a scam. “No, Mom,” he reassures her. “You got the award. $5,000.”
Emily Tang has loved governance since long before she got involved with UBC’s Graduate Student Society. She thinks her passion started in elementary school, when she was involved in student council. But politics aren't everything to the master’s student.
Carla Gillis and her sister Lynette have always been in a band. In high school, it was Plumtree: a youthful collision of the Gillis sisters’ metal influence and their classmates’ pop sensibilities.
For university athletes, the Thunderbird is more than a name. It’s something they represent. But it’s also a name with a troubling beginning.
A stifling, often ignored, silence tends to surround conversations on menstrual care.
For the first time in its 107-year history, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra saw its musicians go on strike. This, however, is just one example of a deeper issue affecting all types of creatives living and working in Vancouver.
Two weeks before Canada recognized the State of Palestine, UBC was visited by Dr. Deirdre Nunan.
The podium looks deceptively simple: a wooden block, a music stand, a conductor standing at the centre of it all. But conducting a wind ensemble is anything but simple.
A mother’s eyes glimmer with joy as her child utters the first word — three years later than expected.
Last month, Dr. Amy Parent was appointed a UNESCO Co-Chair in Transforming Indigenous Knowledge Research Governance and Rematriation.
Dr. John Paul “JP” Catungal recalls the moment he was first approached by a stranger on the topic of his own Queerness.
Second-year UBC student Allegra Kastner went viral once. For her, that was more than enough.
For Young Joe, the most rewarding part of being a medical interpreter is the look of relief that takes over patients and doctors’ faces as soon as she enters the room. Without her, conversation is impossible.
In the past two years, if you’ve attended events by UBC Raves or Halloween nights at the Pit, you might have danced to beats by Nicole Pan, a third-year science student who studies biology, chemistry, computer science and commerce — and DJs on the side.
Dr. Mila Zuo wasn’t always going to study film — but after taking a pornography course at UC Berkeley, she was hooked.
The Ubyssey is planning to launch several podcasts during the 2025/26 academic year, so we're looking for hosts interested in writing and recording their own shows.
