Bhargav Thoom and Daniel Zhao are both mechanical engineering students at our Vancouver campus. They're also the leads of the UBC Thunderbikes, a student design team working on electric bikes. In this episode of the Blue & Goldcast they talk to Santa about the Thunderbikes electrical bike project.

In this episode, Santa talks to UBC Okanagan professor Kevin Golovin about his anti-fouling and anti-fogging face shields and his "cool" research.

UBC Okanagan professors Jan Cioe and Jannick Eikenaar talk to Santa about the university's senates and why they matter.

UBC professors Johan Foster and Orlando Rojas have been working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers and scientists to design what may be the world’s first fully compostable and biodegradable medical mask—the CanMask.

I'm joined by Sheryl Staub-French, the Associate Dean of UBC's Faculty of Applied Science, to discuss the faculty's equity, diversity, and inclusion strategies. Here at UBC, we're committed to doing better by all of our students, faculty, and staff. That means advancing and prioritizing our understanding of equity, diversity, and inclusion, or EDI, not just to make our campuses better learning environments for everyone, but also to look at ways we can transform systems of oppression in the wider world.

In this episode of the Blue and Goldcast, Santa Ono talks to his senior academic advisor on mental health, UBC Journalism Professor Kathryn Gretsinger. Kathryn and her team of 80 students, journalists, and academics have been working on a cross-border investigation into mental health issues with 10 journalism schools in Canada and the US.

In this episode of the Blue and Goldcast, UBC President Santa Ono talks to Karen Ragoonaden about the complexities - and the necessity - of fostering equity, diversity and inclusion at a modern university.

UBC President Santa Ono talks to UBC Law Professor Camden Hutchison about the differences and similarities between the Supreme Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of the USA.

Dr. Walter Mérida is the president’s senior advisor on climate, as well as the director of the Clean Energy Research Centre. Dr. Mérida and Santa sit down to discuss how UBC can continue its role as a climate leader in Canada and beyond.

You can find out more about UBC’s climate emergency response here.

This week on the Blue and Goldcast, join Santa and guests for a roundtable discussion about how the Faculty of Land and Food Systems is integrating anti-racist and social equity frameworks into the natural sciences, while partnering with communities along the way.

Dr. Will Valley is Associate Professor of Teaching at UBC’s Faculty of Land and Food Systems.

Stephanie Lim is the UBC Community Relations Coordinator for the Faculty of Land and Food Systems.

Tatyana Daniels is a Research Assistant and dietetics student at UBC’s Faculty of Land and Food Systems. She is a member of the Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en First Nations.

Kevin Huang is the Executive Director of the Hua Foundation, a community partner working with the Faculty of Land and Food Systems to increase community participation through youth empowerment opportunities.

You can learn more about the Faculty of Land and Food Systems’ Just Food initiative at https://www.landfood.ubc.ca/learning-tools-for-just-food/