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Academics, Development, and Resouces

Several UBC APSC Dean's Awards now open for applications

5 Dean's Graduate Awards, each category amounting $1K! Please discuss and secure support from your faculty supervisor before applying. You must be a student during the 12 months prior to the nomination deadline. Apply by May 30, 2025!

April 17, 2025

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CAPACity Newsletter

CAPACity (Creative And Passionate About CITIES) at UBC is a student-led initiative that aims to bring together undergraduate students interested in urban planning and its various branches.

April 15, 2025

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Academics, Development, and Resouces

Spring graduate awards and APSC student awards

All those eligible and interested, please review these active award opportunities and submit your applications to SCARP's Graduate Student Support by May 12, 2025!

April 14, 2025

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Announcements and updates

Public Scholars Initiative accepting applications

PSI supports impactful, cross-disciplinary and multisectoral doctoral research, with academic support, professional development networking opportunities, and up to $20,000 in funding over two years. Applications close Friday, May 16.

April 2, 2025

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Research and projects

SCARP's James Connolly publishes paper on climate gentrification

Connolly's publication in the journal Nature Climate Change, "The implications of climate gentrification for urban climate action", describe how "climate gentrification" could threaten the continued efficacy of climate action in the long term.

March 12, 2025

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In the world of planning

UBC researchers' new way to measure disaster impact

UBC Assistant professor Dr. Ethan Raker and UBC PhD candidate Xueqing Zhang have developed a new way to measure the burden that disasters place on communities: person-days under evacuation.

March 6, 2025

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