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Student Profile: Vantage One Engineering Alumni Berti Argun

August 11, 2023

In this student profile interview, we spoke with Berti Argun, a recent UBC Alumni originally from Turkey who completed his first undergraduate year through the UBC Vantage One Program in 2018.

Engineering Change: A Woman's Commitment to Promote Diversity in Engineering through Co-op and Work Learn Opportunities

August 2, 2023

UBC Vantage College Alumni and UBC Engineering 5th-year student, Zahra Asadi, is dedicated to raising awareness about engineering as a great career choice for female students. In addition to challenging the societal norm of engineering being a male-dominated field, her story also details some...

Making An Impact: The Reason Tuugu Chose Engineering

June 21, 2023

UBC Vantage College Alumni and 2023 UBC Engineering graduate, Tuugu Ulziidelger, discusses why he chose to study Engineering, and details some highlights of his undergraduate experience at UBC.

Meet Joaquín Gutiérrez: Vantage One Science Alumni and Former Peer Mentor

August 16, 2022

Meet Joaquín Gutiérrez, a Vantage One Science Alumni from Toluca, Mexico. In this Student Profile interview, Joaquin discusses his experience at Vantage College, how he found a community within the program, and his time as a Vantage Peer Mentor.

Student stories

2022 Capstone Conference: Featured Highlights

August 9, 2022

On July 11th and 12th, UBC Vantage College held their 8th annual Capstone Conference. The conference is an opportunity for students and UBC’s dual campuses, UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan, to foster connection and demonstrate their work and proficiency. This annual academic event allows students...

Meet Tara Ubovic: 2021 Vantage College Excellence Award Winner

June 28, 2022

Meet Tara Ubovic, Vantage College Excellence Award Winner and current Vantage One Science student from Belgrade, Serbia.

Student stories

Faculty Focus: Vantage One Instructors Awarded 2021/2022 Killam Teaching Prize

April 28, 2022

Congratulations to Vantage One program Instructors Juan Abelló, Fok-Shuen Leung, and Oluwakemi Ola on each being awarded the Killam Teaching Prize!

Universal design in field-focused experiential learning

November 18, 2021

The importance of experiential learning on student growth is well documented in STEM education literature. However, traditional perceptions of academic rigor suggest that students who are physically unable to study outside of the classroom are therefore unable to participate in field-focused...

Events

English-language pathways to UBC - How Vantage One helped Maryo excel in his degree

June 15, 2021

By encouraging students to closely interact with their professors, Vantage engrained in me the value of attending office hours and actively participating in class. Now that I’m about to graduate in a few months, I can confidently say that those two habits helped me maintain a relatively high...

Student stories

The accessibility of English as the universal language of science

June 7, 2021

A recent feature in the Life Sciences Institute features Dr. Sandra Zappa Hollman and Dr. Alfredo Ferreira. They both discuss the benefits and the drawbacks of having English as the language of Science, and provide some insight on what the institution needs to be thinking about as a whole....

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