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The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada.With an annual research budget of $893 million, UBC funds 9,992 projects annually in various fields of study within the industrial sector, as well as governmental and non-governmental organizations.
The University of British Columbia Okanagan (also known as UBC Okanagan or UBCO) is a campus of the University of British Columbia in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.. This campus is the research and innovation hub in the province's southern interior, in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley and home to over 11,913 undergraduate and graduate students. [3]
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (IKBLC) is a facility at the Vancouver campus of the University of British Columbia. The learning centre is built around the refurbished core of the 1925 UBC Main Library. [1] [2] The Centre is named for Irving. K. Barber, a philanthropist and graduate of UBC.
The UBC board's quasi-municipal powers are largely delegated to UBC Campus and Community Planning, a division of the university's vice-president of external relations. For the purposes of representation on the Metro Vancouver Board of Directors, UBC Vancouver is part of Electoral Area A. The current Electoral Area A director is Jen McCutcheon.
Most states where English is an official language are former territories of the British Empire. Exceptions include Rwanda and Burundi [also should be on map] , which were formerly German and then Belgian colonies; Cameroon, where only part of the country was under the British mandate; and Liberia , the Philippines , the Federated States of ...
One of our assignments is a CanLit Edit-a-thon that we are working on throughout the month of March 2017. There are 44 of us in total -- 43 students and myself, the instructor -- and we are being supported by educational developers from UBC's Centre for Teaching & Learning, technical support staff from Arts ISIT, a research librarian, and the team at WikiEd.
The Chan Centre was a collaborative project between three companies; Bing Thom Architects from Vancouver created the overall building design, Artec Consultants in New York City designed the concert hall and acoustic specifications, [3] and Theatre Projects Consultants designed the studio theatre.
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [1] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [2] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.