It is once again university acceptance season. And for a growing number of Canadian grade 12 students, the letters and e-mails include offers of admission from U.S. colleges and universities in addition to the usual array of Canadian schools. But does it actually make any sense for a Canadian to go to a U.S. university?

The creaking, turn of the century steam pipes at the University of British Columbia are transforming into a modern, modular low-carbon Lego style hot water system. The new hot water style heating system at UBC can now integrate renewable energy systems like biomass, geoexchange, solar thermal and waste heat into this natural gas system all because the barrier for entry is lower.

UBC evolutionary biologist Sarah Otto is one of 22 recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship. Otto, 43, has been teaching at UBC's department of zool...

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- VANCOUVER - Doctors have determined that a University of British Columbia student whose eyes were gouged in an attack during a t...

CBC -- Organizers of a rally in honour of a UBC student allegedly beaten and blinded by her husband during an attack in Bangladesh hope the event will...

UPDATE: UBC has set up a website for donations for Rumana Monzur. Her friends and members of the community are also organizing a rally in Vancouver on...

CBC -- Support continues to grow for a University of British Columbia graduate student allegedly blinded by her husband. Rumana Manzur, who is purs...

CBC -- Shocked staff and students at St. John's College at the University of British Columbia are raising money for a colleague who was viciously atta...