University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia, generally suggested as UBC, is an open examination school with grounds and working environments in British Columbia, Canada. Developed in 1908 as the McGill University College of British Columbia, the school persuaded the chance to be free and got its present name in 1915. It is the most settled relationship of higher learning in British Columbia and selects more than 60,000 understudies at its Vancouver and Okanagan Valley grounds. Most understudies are picked in five more noteworthy Faculties, especially Arts, Science, Medicine, Applied Science and the Sauder School of Business. UBC's 4.02 km2 (993-fragment of zone) Vancouver grounds is masterminded inside the University Endowment Lands, around 10 km (6 mi) west of Downtown Vancouver. The 2.09 km2 (516-fragment of zone) Okanagan grounds, gained in 2005, is organized in Kelowna. 

UBC is a champion amongst the most specific Canadian schools, and as indicated by the yearly rankings gathered by Maclean's is considered among the essential three examination colleges the country over. In 2015 UBC was arranged among the 20 best state financed schools worldwide by U.S. News and World Report and Times Higher Education. With a yearly research spending game plan respected at $564 million, UBC stores 8,442 attempts starting 2014. Staff, graduated class, and powers have been surrendered seven Nobel Prizes, 69 Rhodes Scholarships, 65 Olympic embellishments and 195 relationship to the Royal Society of Canada. The school has in like way taught three Canadian PMs, most beginning late Justin Trudeau, the occupant. 

One the best examination libraries in Canada, the UBC Library framework contains more than seven million volumes among its 21 branches and is seen as a champion amongst the most profitable in North America. UBC offers two or three stipends, strikingly the Schulich Scholarship for STEM handle, the Donald A. Wehrung International Student Award for researchers from war-torn nations, and the International Leader of Tomorrow Award for experts around the world. Since 1968 UBC is home to TRIUMF, Canada's national examination office for molecule and atomic material science which in like way houses the world's most prominent cyclotron. Assorted work environments meld the Chan Center for the Performing Arts, the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, which contains more than 2 million things in its accumulation, and the Museum of Anthropology, which houses more than 535,000 relics. 

The Museum of Anthropology at UBC was reported on July 1, 1971 by Prime Minister Trudeau. At a change expense of $2.5 million, the showcase building framed by Arthur Erickson opened in 1976. 

UBC's accessible president is Dr. Martha Piper, who filled the part of Interim President beginning September 1, 2015, after the renunciation of Dr. Arvind Gupta on August 7, 2015. Gupta (doled out on July 1, 2014) had succeeded Dr. Stephen Toope, who held the post for a long time starting July 1, 2006. The Chancellor of the University, who goes about as the University's adjusted head and sits on the instructive Senate and the Board of Governors, is Lindsay Gordon (as of April 14, 2014). The UBC Okanagan grounds is driven by Dr. Deborah Buszard, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal. Every one of the three working up resources remain, yet the Faculty of Agriculture is right off the bat known as the Faculty of Land and Food Systems.