Why do some straight men have sex with other men? - UBC News
Mar 23, 2021 · According to nationally-representative surveys in the United States, hundreds of thousands of straight-identified men have had sex with other men. In the new book Still Straight: Sexual Flexibility among White Men in Rural America, UBC sociologist Dr. Tony Silva argues that these men are not closeted, bisexual or just experimenting.
Half of Canadian kids witness ethnic, racial bullying at school: study
Oct 19, 2021 · Fifty-eight per cent of Canadian youth say they have seen kids insulted, bullied or excluded based on their race or ethnicity at school, according to new survey data from the Angus Reid Institute in partnership with the University of British Columbia. Fourteen per cent say they’ve experienced it themselves, with visible minority children ...
Ancient texts show Jesus had little in common with Republican Jesus
Oct 6, 2020 · Republican Jesus is the first book written by a New Testament scholar on abuses of the Bible by the Christian Right. “Republican Jesus” is a metaphor for interpretations of Jesus that right-wing American Christian leaders have developed and popularized for nearly a century. I show how right-wing influencers have deployed a version of Jesus ...
QS rankings place UBC first in Canada for social impact ... - UBC …
Oct 26, 2022 · The University of British Columbia ranks first in Canada for social impact and second for environmental impact in the new Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings: Sustainability. Globally, the university ranks third for overall impact. The QS rankings rate more than 700 institutions on their actions to tackle the world’s greatest ...
A conversation with journalist and student Anastasiia Lapatina
Sep 20, 2022. Anastasiia Lapatina is a fourth-year UBC political science student and national reporter for The Kyiv Independent who has spent much of 2022 covering the war in Ukraine. Before returning to UBC classes this fall, Lapatina spent the summer reporting from Kyiv, from the Polish-Ukrainian border, and from refugee centres across Ukraine.
UBC ranks among the top five per cent of universities in the world
Lui Xia Lee. Jun 19, 2019. The University of British Columbia is the 51 st best university in the world, according to the 2020 QS World University Rankings (QS). This places UBC among the top five per cent of institutions in the highly-influential QS ranking, which considers over 1,000 institutions worldwide, including 26 from Canada.
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UBC experts on 100th year since introduction of the 1923 Chinese ...
Jun 27, 2023 · the 1923 Chinese Immigration Act in wider context of Asian Canadian history, white supremacy and/or settler colonialism in Canada. Dr. Chris Lee. Professor, Department of English Language and Literatures. Email: [email protected]. Cel: 604-838-7636 (Whatsapp only) Interview language (s): English, Cantonese. Asian and Chinese Canadian literature ...
UBC research shows hearing persists at end of life
Jul 8, 2020. Hearing is widely thought to be the last sense to go in the dying process. Now UBC researchers have evidence that some people may still be able to hear while in an unresponsive state at the end of their life. This research, published recently in Scientific Reports, is the first to investigate hearing in humans when they are close ...