University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university with its main campus located at Point Grey, in the University Endowment Lands, a suburb directly adjoining Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and another smaller campus known as UBC Okanagan located in Kelowna, British Columbia. It also has two smaller campuses in Vancouver: its campus at Vancouver General Hospital for the medical sciences and its UBC Robson Square campus in the downtown area of Vancouver for part-time credit and non-credit programs.

Alumni

The most famous alumni from UBC include:

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• Nobel laureate in Physics, Bertram N. Brockhouse
• Nobel laureate in Economics, Robert Mundell
• mathematician and pi researcher Peter Borwein
• mathematician and chemist Charlotte Froese Fischer, famous for the development of the Multi-configurational self-consistent field method
• founder, Texas Instruments, Cecil H. Green
• CEO and Chairman of the Board, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Henry A. McKinnell
• CEO, Computer Associates, John Swainson
• former Canadian prime ministers Kim Campbell and John Turner
• senator Pat Carney
• past B.C. premiers Ujjal Dosanjh and Mike Harcourt
• Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin
• composer Michael Conway Baker
• author and historian Pierre Berton
• actor Nicola Cavendish
• journalists Allan Fotheringham and Stevie Cameron
• writer William Gibson
• opera singers Ben Heppner and Judith Forst
• filmmaker Bruce Sweeney
• educator and Man In Motion, Rick Hansen
• activist Mark Satin
• astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason
• University of Victoria president Dr. David Turpin

Recipients of honorary degrees

• The 14th Dalai Lama
• Bishop Desmond Tutu
• Shirin Ebadi