The Engineering Undergraduate Society comprises all undergraduate students studying engineering at UBC. In its earliest days, engineering was under the Faculty of Applied Science. The Society's organization is managed by an executive that concerns engineering students' social, athletic, and community activities.

In September 1993, the University of British Columbia created the Director of Student Services. Registrar Richard Spencer was appointed Director. Seven student service departments who had reported to the Vice President of Student Services began reporting to Spencer. In addition, the directors of the student services units and managers of the Registrar's Office units formed a Student Services Management Committee. Following Richard Spencer's term as Registrar and Director of Student Services on December 31, 2000, restructuring resulted in Enrolment Services effective January 2001.

The University of British Columbia's Faculty of Law opened in September 1945. Before this, individuals wishing to become lawyers in British Columbia articled for three years and attended lectures given by the legal profession at the Vancouver Law School (VLS) operated by the Law Society of BC. The VLS opened in 1914 then closed in 1915 due to World War I. The School reopened in 1919 and worked until 1943 when World War II forced its closure. Discussions among the legal profession regarding the Faculty of Law at UBC continued throughout this entire period. These discussions intensified as the war concluded. The University Act already allowed for a Faculty of Law at UBC. In 1944 the Legal Professions Act was amended to enable the Law Society to merge the VLS with a new faculty at UBC. As a result, a joint Law Society/U.B.C. committee was struck in July 1945 to submit recommendations and plans to establish a Faculty of Law. The University's Board of Governors and Senate approved the committee's recommendations late in August. In September, the Law Society's benchers approved the guidance and amended the society's rules in October.

Lectures began on 24 September 1945 to an enrollment of 86 students. The faculty's staff consisted of George F. Curtis, Professor and Dean, formerly a Professor of Law at Dalhousie University; Frederick Read, Professor, previously of the Manitoba Law School and Alfred Watts, a Vancouver lawyer and, in 1947, the Secretary of the Law Society of BC, appointed on a part-time basis as Honorary Liaison Secretary to the Faculty. The faculty was housed in converted army huts on campus and would remain in these huts for the next seven years. The instruction was based on the Canadian Bar Association's standard curriculum. In addition to Dean Curtis and Professor Read, members of the judiciary and bar served as lecturers in the new faculty. Classes were conducted both on campus and at the Courthouse in downtown Vancouver. Students also had to use the library at the Courthouse until a Law Library was established on campus. In that first year, some 5,000 books were donated by the public and the new library's legal profession. D.M. Priestley was the first Law Librarian and also lectured in the fifties. The faculty was officially opened on 17 January 1946 by the Honourable Gordon Sloan, Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal. The first class graduated in 1948.

Student enrollment and staff hiring increased after the war. The demand for lawyers and legal education was significant. In the 1948-49 year, registration was 473, an unsurpassed figure until the late sixties. By the early 1950s, the faculty had outgrown its accommodations. In 1951 Dean Curtis began plans for a permanent Faculty of Law Building. Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent opened the new building on 4 September 1952. Student enrollment levelled off and declined during the fifties. In the 1954-55 year, it hit a low of 197. In 1955-56 Malcolm M. MacIntyre, a professor at the faculty since 1948, served as Acting Dean while Curtis was a visiting professor at the Harvard Law School. The decade he ended with the establishment of The UBC Law Review in 1959. The Law Review's predecessor, UBC Legal Notes, was begun by a students' committee in 1949.

By 1960-61 enrollment had increased to 240. The faculty now included the Dean, two Professors, one Associate Professor, three Assistant Professors and sixteen Lecturers. These numbers stayed relatively constant until the mid-sixties when the baby-boom generation increased enrollment and staffing to unprecedented levels. Overcrowding in the Faculty building forced the use of army huts once again for classes and study space. Watts left the faculty's service in 1968 to accept a judicial appointment. In 1968-69, the new position of Administrator was created and filled by P.W. Ayres. Curriculum, evaluations, bureaucratic procedures and faculty facilities all came in for scrutiny. As a result, there was an increase in student organizations' activity, including publications, petitions and meetings. Liaison committees were struck to bring administrators, faculty and students together for discussions.

Curtis retired as Dean in 1971. During his twenty-six-year administration, the faculty had grown significantly in enrollment, staffing, facilities, and national and international stature. In 1970-71 there were 614 students in attendance. In addition to the Dean, there were ten Professors, five Associate Professors, sixteen Assistant Professors and seven Lecturers. The library was administered by Law Librarian Thomas J. Shorthouse and two Assistant Law Librarians. The new Dean was Albert J. McClean. He first joined the faculty as a Lecturer in 1960 and had been a full Professor since 1968. The faculty continued to grow throughout the seventies, again raising the need for a larger building. In 1975 the existing building was remodelled, and a new addition was constructed. This new structure was completed in 1976 and named the George F. Curtis Building. 1975 also saw the establishment of the Clinic Term Programme. By the following year, when McClean resigned, enrollment was up to 704.

Kenneth M. Lysyk became Dean in 1976 after having served as Saskatchewan's Deputy Attorney General. Lysyk started teaching at UBC's Faculty of Law in 1960 as a Lecturer and left as a Full Professor for a position at the University of Toronto in 1970. Under his administration, there was a thorough overhaul of the faculty's curriculum. In 1980 the East Asian Legal Studies Programme was introduced, which included Japanese Legal Studies.

Peter T. Burns, a Full Professor at the faculty since 1971, followed Lysyk as Dean in 1982. In 1985 Chinese Legal Studies was added to the East Asian programme through a joint U.B.C./Peking University exchange of legal scholars and graduate students. That same year also saw the establishment of a Cooperative Project in Law and Computers with IBM Canada. Patrick Gibson now filled the position of Administrator. In 2015, after a significant donation by Peter A. Allard, the faculty was renamed the Peter A. Allard School of Law.

Marjorie Peebles was born in Devonshire, England and emigrated to Canada as a baby with her family. Peebles studied at King Edward High School in Vancouver before attending UBC. She studied Arts with a major in English and History. She married in 1942 to Professor Archie Peebles (1905-1981), a professor of Civil Engineering at UBC from 1931-1970. Marjorie Peebles was Vice-President of the Women's Faculty Club and later President, 1960-61.

Juta Kitching majored in German and French Languages and Literature at UBC and specialized in Finno-Ugric Linguistics during post-graduate studies at Indiana University (Bloomington). In addition, she has taught her subjects of expertise at various North American universities. An active member of several professional associations, Kitching helped found and develop the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada (FUSAC) internationally. She served as its President and Secretary 1983-1993, writing newsletters and organizing conferences for members and scholars at extensive and editing proceedings, publishing articles and presenting papers. The FUSAC was founded in 1983. Since then, biennial meetings have been held mostly in conjunction with the Learned Societies. The association aims to promote Finno-Ugric studies in Canada and provide a regular forum for scholars to present papers on many research areas. It also works to initiate and maintain links with scholarly associations and academic institutions in other countries, primarily where research and teaching are conducted and stimulate awareness of Canada's Estonian, Finnish, and Hungarian cultural groups.

Frank Theodore Gnup, head coach of football at the University of British Columbia, was born in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, in 1917. He attended Manhattan College in New York, from which he graduated in 1941 with a B.Sc. in physical education. He played football while at Manhattan, and in 1939 got an all-American honourable mention. At the time, he also played professionally under an assumed name. From 1941 to 1945, he served in the armed forces as a coach. Although drafted by the Buffalo Bills in 1945, Gnup joined the old Ontario Rugby Football Union's Hamilton Wildcats as a playing coach. When the Wildcats merged with the Hamilton Tigers in 1950, he then joined the Toronto Argonauts. In 1955, Gnup came to the University of British Columbia, where from 1955 to 1973, he coached the Thunderbirds. After 1973, Gnup remained at UBC in semi-retirement, teaching physical education and coaching baseball and golf. Gnup's character, appearance and philosophy made him an institution on campus. Gravelly-voiced and cigar smoking, he inspired a whole generation. His coaching record at UBC was 55 wins, 102 losses and 5 ties. He was well known for his generosity, acting as a father confessor, counsellor, and job finder for his students. For many years, the Annual Frank Gnup Pigskin Award Banquet was the highlight of the athletic season at UBC. On this occasion, Gnup handed out awards inspired by some of the worst plays of the team. He manufactured the gifts at his home workshop from discarded items. Gnup died in Vancouver on September 27, 1976.

William Stewart Hoar was born in New Brunswick in 1913. He worked at the University of New Brunswick and Toronto and for Canada's Fisheries Research Board. In 1954 he was appointed to the Department of Zoology and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia. He became head of the Department of Zoology between 1964-71.

Gavin Dirom attended UBC from 1927-1932. During that period, he stared on the varsity Canadian Rugby (football) team as both a defensive guard and in the offensive backfield at the halfback position. Dirom was also a key member of UBC's track and field team. In March 1931, he was elected president of the Men's Athletic Association. Dirom graduated with a degree in engineering in 1932.

The Graduate Student Society (GSS) at UBC was formed in 1982 to consolidate the administration of the Graduate Student Association and the Graduate Student Centre. Currently, all students registered in the Faculty of Graduate Studies are members of the GSS. The Society operates from the Thea Koerner Graduate Student Centre, which was donated to the University by Leon Koerner in 1959, in memory of his late wife, and expanded by graduate students in 1969. The Society promotes and protects its members' academic, social, intellectual, cultural, and recreational interests. The GSS is a registered Society under the Society Act of British Columbia and is administratively divided into four departments: Administration, Academic & External Issues, Events & Services, and Finance. An Executive Committee, elected annually by graduate students, is also responsible for the administration of the GSS. Its Council is composed of executive members and graduate students elected from each department of the University.

Israel Michael Lerner was a geneticist and evolutionary biologist. He studied genetics at the University of California Berkeley in 1936.

Born in Adelaide, South Australia, James Playford Duncan undertook graduate physics and engineering at the University of Adelaide (M.E., 1954) and the University of Manchester (D.Sc., 1964). Duncan became a professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield in 1956. He came to the University of British Columbia in the same capacity in 1965 and retired in 1984.

Jan de Bruyn was born in Abcoude, Netherlands, in 1918. He obtained his BA from UBC (1949) and MA in English from London (1951). He joined UBC's Department of English as a lecturer and remained there until his retirement in 1983. De Bruyn was the founding editor of Prism and edited the departmental newsletter, The Newsense. After his retirement, he and his wife moved to Castlegar, BC, leading the Lifewriters. This group of senior citizens met regularly to tell and write stories about their lives; de Bruyn edited several published collections of their stories.

John Seymour Conway was born in London, England, and studied at St John's College Cambridge. He emigrated to Canada in 1955 and taught International Relations for two years at the University of Manitoba. In 1957 he joined the Department of History at UBC and continued teaching Modern European History and International Relations until 1995. In 1998 he was appointed the Smallman Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of History at Western Ontario. His research concentrated on the role of German Churches in the 1930s and 1940s. From this research, he wrote "The Nazi Persecution of the Churches 1933-1945". This book was first published in Britain in 1968, translated into German, French and Spanish, and reissued in 1997. His researches took him frequently to Germany, which he visited almost every year, including several sabbatical periods at various German universities. In 1970 he was a founding member of the Scholars' Conference on the German Church and the Holocaust. He wrote many articles dealing with the role of the European churches and the Vatican during the Holocaust and on Christian-Jewish relations during the twentieth century. He paid three visits to Israel and lectured at the Yad Vashem Memorial Foundation in Jerusalem in 1993. In 1995 he became the Director of the Association of Contemporary Church Historians and editor of its monthly newsletter, which has a worldwide audience. He was also a member of the editorial boards of Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte and the Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Conway played an active part in several associations connected with Vancouver's international relations, including being Chairman of the Vancouver Branch of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs and the United Nations Association. For ten years, he was the executive vice-chairman of the Tibetan Refugee Aid Society of Canada. In this connection, he paid several visits to India. In 1977 he was awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal for his services. He also served as a member of the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster's Refugee Liaison Committee. He was long associated with the Student Christian Movement and the World University Service on the UBC campus. He acted for many years as the Faculty Advisor. He served for many years as the editor of the Newsletter of the Association of Contemporary Church Historians. He was also a faithful member of St James' Anglican Parish, Vancouver. Conway passed away on June 23, 2017.

In 1907, several Vancouver and district residents founded the Vancouver Naturalists' Field Club to study the Lower Mainland's natural history. The first field trip was made to Kitsilano beach on 18 August. The club existed for only a few seasons. In 1918, members of the botanical section of the BC Mountaineering Club, led by Professor John Davidson (former Provincial Botanist), founded the Vancouver Natural History Society (VNHS). Davidson organized popular evening botany classes for members of the society. The VNHS also developed a field trip program to sites of botanical interest, such as Crescent Beach. Summer camps were established at Garibaldi, Botanie Valley (near Spence's Bridge), Skagit Valley, and several other locations. To make the Lower Mainland greener, local naturalists, including the Natural History Society members, successfully campaigned for local arbour days. Yet, the activities of society have not focused only on botany. Field trips organized and led by Jack Armstrong, Bill Mathews and Charley Ney popularized geology in society. Members have also studied geology, entomology, ornithology, microscopy, and photography. More recently, interest in the maritime environment has expanded. During recent decades, society has witnessed continued growth, as many members of the environmental movement have joined to study our natural heritage.

After obtaining his Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia in 1924, John Gibbard embarked on a teaching career that lasted almost thirty years at McGee High School. In 1937, he completed his Master's thesis on the history of the Fraser Valley. Gibbard obtained his Bachelor of Education in 1946 and nine years later returned to UBC to serve as a special lecturer in the Faculty of Education. He retired in 1966 but remained active in the faculty for some time.

Ralph Brazelton Peck was born in Winnipeg, Canada. He grew up in Denver and received his engineering degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic. He was a Civil Engineer specializing in soil mechanics.

Charles Ripley was born in Lethbridge, Alberta. He studied engineering at the University of Alberta. In 1951 he founded Ripley and Associates in Vancouver, one of Canada's earliest soil mechanics consulting practices.

Harry Tremaine Logan was born on March 5, 1887, in Londonderry, Nova Scotia. He was educated at Vancouver High School; McGill University (Honors Classics, 1908); Oxford University (1908-11), where he was a British Columbia Rhodes Scholar; Presbyterian College (McGill, 1911-12); and New College Edinburgh (1912-13), where he studied Theology. Harry Logan and Gwyneth Murray met in Oxford in 1909. They were engaged to be married in 1911 when Logan returned to Canada. They were married in 1916, shortly after the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders arrived in England.

Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School was part of a philanthropic scheme to strengthen the British Empire and improve the condition of underprivileged British children, an idea conceived by Kingsley Fairbridge. The plan was to resettle selected British children in overseas dominions. The Prince of Wales school opened in 1935 near Duncan, BC. Over 300 children passed through Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm school in its first ten years of operation. The estate was eventually sold in the early 1950s.

Lyle Creelman (née Morrison) was born in Nova Scotia and earned a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of British Columbia and a Master of Arts Degree from Columbia University. Within two years of graduating, Creelman became Director of Public Health Nursing for the City of Vancouver. Shortly after that, she became President of the Registered Nurses Association of British Columbia. For the next twenty-four years, she established national and international standards for accomplishments in the field of nursing. Some of these achievements included: Chief Medical Officer for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in the British zone of occupied Germany, where she pioneered specialized nurses training programs; Chief Nursing Officer with the World Health Organization, where she won acceptance for a philosophy of improved third world health care through adequate training of local workers; and co-author of the Ballie-Creelman Report, which was accepted for many years as the primary reference for the preparation of public health professionals in Canada. In addition, Creelman's accomplishments resulted in various forms of recognition, including the Medal of Service of the Order of Canada (1971), the Canadian Centennial Medal (1967) and Honorary Doctorate Degrees from the University of New Brunswick in 1963 and the University of British Columbia in 1992. Lyle Creelman died in Vancouver on February 27th, 2007.

A native of Ontario, Mollie Esther Cottingham grew up in Vancouver, received her BA from UBC in 1927 and, in the following year, embarked on her teaching career in the secondary schools of BC. She began teaching at Fernie in 1928 and then moved to Powell River (1935), Trail (1938) and Nelson (1940) before returning to Vancouver in 1943 to teach at Prince of Wales and John Oliver Schools. Cottingham enjoyed a keen interest in history, and while in Nelson, she conducted research that was later used to prepare her MA thesis about the West Kootenays (1947). Throughout her career, Cottingham actively participated in organizational affairs. In recognition of her service and talent, she became the first woman to hold the president's office for the BC's Teacher's Federation (1957-1958). After completing her presidential term, she joined UBC's new Faculty and College of Education, where she remained until her retirement in 1971. In 1967, Cottingham was awarded the Fergusson Memorial Award as the province's outstanding educator.

The League of Nations in Canada, Victoria Branch, was active in Victoria after World War I. Its purpose was the promotion of international peace and the aims of the international League of Nations.

Renee Chipman (née Haweis) married William Wainwright Chipman in 1943. William Chipman died in the late 1950s.

One of the University of British Columbia's most distinguished chemists, Robert H. Clark, was born in Blythe, Ontario and received his university education at the University of Toronto (MA 1906) and the University of Leipzig (Ph.D. 1909). After teaching for seven years in American universities, he joined UBC's Department of Chemistry in 1916. Clark was appointed head of the department in 1927, which he held until his retirement in 1948.

Born in Vancouver, Robert James Clark completed his graduate work in Physics at McGill University and Canterbury. He returned to Vancouver and joined the University of British Columbia's Department of Physics in 1947 and remained active there until the early 1970s.

Vancouver City Council on 23 April 1979 appointed the Governmental Review Commission. Its role was to consider the merits of the "at-large" electoral system and some form of a ward system for Vancouver. If a ward system was recommended, the Commission was to consider the elements of a ward system, including the number of wards, ward boundaries, etc. In addition, it was to make recommendations on the size of the Council, length of office term of members and the frequency of elections. As well as consider qualifications for candidacy and role and powers of the Mayor and Council.

Desmond Pacey worked with UBC's Roy Daniells to create English Ph.D. programs at UBC and the University of New Brunswick. He was also an author of poetry and short fiction.

Constance Maynard Daniells (née Stevens) was born in England in 1876. In 1901 she married James Daniells, and they had one son, James Roy Daniells, who was born in 1902. She died in 1957.

The pressure to establish a Home Economics course at the University of British Columbia began as early as 1923. By the mid-1920s, the Provincial Parent-Teacher Federation mounted a campaign to develop a UBC degree course. The organization initiated a fund to endow a chair, and by 1927 it had reached $11,000. The money came in small donations from across the province, and public demand for a program continued to accelerate. In response, the University instituted a Home Economics Degree Course in 1931. However, deep cuts in University funding the following year resulted in the course's temporary suspension. The Provincial Parent-Teachers Federation established a permanent committee in 1933 to oversee the development fund's use, which continued to grow. In addition, the committee provided bursaries to eight students who had begun the UBC program to complete their education at another university. In 1943, the Senate and Board of Governors approved the course's re-establishment at the earliest possible moment. The Parent-Teacher Federation turned over $20,000 to the University in 1945 to help finance the construction and furnishing of campus facilities.
Finally, after holding classes in the campus army huts and enduring a fire in 1948, the new Home Economics Building opened in September 1949. Dorothy Lefebvre served as the first head of the Department of Home Economics. She resigned within a few years and was replaced by Charlotte Black, who served as director until the 1960s. In 1951, the program's status changed as it became the School of Home Economics, part of the Faculty of Arts and Science. It moved to a new building near the UBC Bookstore on East Mall in 1982 and was renamed the School of Family and Nutritional Sciences in 1984. The School's administrative responsibility was transferred to the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in 1992, following an earlier academic review that recommended that the dietetics and nutrition programs be relocated to a science-based faculty. There was strong support for the move. There were already several close links between the School and Agricultural Sciences, particularly between the School's nutritional sciences program and the Faculty's Department of Food Science and Animal Science programs. By 1992 the School was offering a Dietetics program leading to a BSc (Diet.) degree, a Family Science major leading to a BA degree, a Home Economics program leading to a BHE degree, a Nutritional Sciences major leading to a BSc degree, an MA in Family Studies, and MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Human Nutrition. The School was discontinued in 1999 -- the dietetics and nutrition programs remained within the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, while the family studies program transferred to the School of Social Work.

The UBC Bookstore is owned by the University and operated by University staff in co-operation with faculty and students to provide the campus community with course textbooks, reference works, and office supplies. The Bookstore is prepared to supply all course supplies required by students, including books, notebooks, instruments and all kinds of specified and general stores. Over the years, the Bookstore has expanded into a significant academic bookstore in British Columbia. It now regularly stocks a wide range of available and educational titles for the convenience of students, faculty, staff of the University, and the public.

Emily Faithfull was born in Surrey, England, in 1835. In 1860, she opened the Victoria Press in London and began publishing the Victoria Magazine in 1863. Faithfull is considered a pioneer for women's rights, particularly in relation to employment.

Thomas James Wise was born in Kent, England, in 1859. He became infamous as a book collector and forger.

Wilson Duff attended the University of British Columbia and graduated with a BA in 1949, and later received an MA in Anthropology from the University of Washington in 1951. Duff was the curator of Anthropology at the BC Provincial Museum (1950-1965) and later a professor of anthropology at UBC. He was also on the Vancouver Museum planning committee and a consultant to study the National Museum of Man in Ottawa. In addition, he served as the Vice President of the Museums Association of BC and was later the President of the association from 1963-1965. Duff acted as an unofficial advisor to several First Nations organizations in BC. In particular, he held a role as the advisor to the Kitwancool. In addition, he testified in the White and Bob case in Nanaimo and the Nishga, which were cases related to land claims.

The UBC Film Society was founded in 1936. Like all student clubs, it operates under the authority of the Alma Mater Society. Its objective was and continues to be to bring high-quality campus films of various genres and popularity levels that students may not otherwise have the chance to see.

The UBC Department of Classics initiated the Classics Club for its students in 1920. The first department head, Lemuel Robertson, was the Club's original sponsor, and meetings were often held in his home. Discussions were also held at the homes of Classics professors Harry Logan and O.J. Todd. Club activities included presenting papers by faculty and students, productions of Classical Greek plays, and social events. The Club was active through the 1920s and 1930s, then went into hiatus during World War II. It was revived when Logan became head of the department in 1949. It continued to flourish until the 1990s when undergraduate enrolment went into decline. The Club was dissolved in 1995. The Department of Classics was merged into the Department of Classical, Near-Eastern, and Religious Studies.

Laurenda Daniells, the first Archivist of the University of British Columbia, was born in Winnipeg in 1923. She graduated from the University of Manitoba with a degree in social work in 1945. Her first job was with the protection division of the Children’s Aid Society of Winnipeg. In May 1948, she married Roy Daniells, who was appointed as the head of the English Department at the University of British Columbia and moved with him to Vancouver. They purchased an empty lot on Allison Road in the University Hill neighbourhood, where they built one of the first homes in the progressive “West Cost Modern” style. They had two daughters, Susan and Sara, and the family travelled extensively to Europe and Africa. In 1959-1960, during Roy’s sabbatical supported by a Canada Council grant, she and the family spent a year in Europe. Laurenda also served three terms as a school board trustee and did a considerable amount of volunteer work. In 1969, Laurenda entered the one-year Library Science degree programme at UBC. Upon graduation, she continued with a six-week archival management course at the Public Archives of Canada. In 1970, she was appointed the first University Archivist at UBC Library’s Special Collections Division. In this position, Laurenda worked to bring some order to the institution’s historical records and eventually had established the University Archives on firm foundations.
During her time at UBC, Laurenda also served as the Faculty Association executive and the University Senate. She also did a one-year term as president of the Confederation of University Faculty Associations of B.C.In 1988, Laurenda retired with “University Archivist Emerita.” Afterwards, she continued her volunteer work, in particular, with the University Hill United Church. In her eighties, she enjoyed writing and began recording her life stories with the Brock Hall Life Writers Group. In 2016, these stories were collected in her published memoir, Royal Blood. Laurenda passed away on Wednesday evening, 4 January 2017.

David Frederick Measday was born in London, England, in 1937. He studied at King's College School, Wimbledon, before attending Wadham College, Oxford. There he earned bachelor's (1959) and doctorate (1962) degrees in physics. From 1962 to 1965, Measday was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University in Boston. He then went on to work at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1965-1970. In 1970 he joined the Department of Physics (later to become the Department of Physics & Astronomy) at the University of British Columbia, working with the university's new particle accelerator TRIUMF. From 1970 to 1975, he taught as an associate professor, earning full professor's rank in 1975. He was awarded UBC's Senior Killam Fellowship, which enabled his 1977/1978 sabbatical studies at CERN and the CEA Centre at Saclay, France. In 1990 he became Associate Dean of Science and in 1998 was Dean pro tem. In this capacity, Measday aided with the departments' reorganization within the Faculty of Science included the shift to computer-centred laboratories. After his retirement, he continued to be active with the President's Advisory Committee on University Enhancement. In addition, he spearheaded the naming of the Davidson Arboretum.

The administrative roots of Engineering Physics can be traced back to 1946 when three students W.E. Matheson, D.L. Pitman, and D.J. Rose, returned to UBC after World War II to complete their engineering degrees. They believed that technologies from WWII suggested that the field of physics would require more engineers. Accordingly, they proposed forming a new program combining engineering and physics to Dean John N. Finlayson (Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science from 1936-1950). Dean Finlayson agreed and asked the trio to consider a curriculum. Thus, their suggestions became the underpinnings of Engineering Physics. This new discipline was included within the Faculty of Applied Science but was run by the Department of Physics. These three students became the first graduating class of Engineering Physics in 1947.
Although often referred to informally as the Department of Engineering Physics, Engineering Physics is not technically considered a Department. It is more appropriately referred to in the UBC Calendar as the Engineering Physics Program. Coursework within Engineering Physics leads to a Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Physics. Based on a solid foundation of physics, math and engineering principles, students graduating from Engineering Physics play a critical role in taking new ideas from concept to practical use at the cutting edge of new technologies.
In the years after its initial creation, Engineering Physics continued to grow, and in 1972 Professor Robert Parsons was appointed the Director of Engineering Physics. In 1978, Professor Boye Ahlborn was appointed as Director. Two years later, in 1980, Professor Edward Auld was appointed Director of Engineering Physics, a position he held for 18 years until 1998.
In 1998, Professor Jeff Young was appointed Director, a position he held until 2006 when Professor Andre Marziali became the Director.
Over the years, Engineering Physics students have been involved in many different successful endeavours. For example, in 1981, students Geof Auchinlech and Andre Godoroja produced a design report for APSC 459, which led to a contract to retrofit the Vancouver Planetarium entertainment system. In 1983, graduate student Richard McMahon developed sophisticated computer technology. He formed a successful company, Techware Systems Corporation, to commercialize his product. In 1988, Engineering Physics received a Fund for Excellence grant from the Provincial Government to form the Engineering Physics Project Lab. In 1997, the same year that Engineering Physics hosted a 50th Anniversary celebration attended by over 200 alumni, graduate Bjarni Tryggvason, Canadian Astronaut, orbited the space station and tested his motion isolation system, part of which had been developed in the Engineering Physics Project Lab. As of 2013, Engineering Physics is a fully accredited Engineering Program administered by the Department of Physics and Astronomy and is a part of the Faculty of Applied Science.

Management of the University of British Columbia's financial affairs was initially the responsibility of the Bursar Office. The first to hold the position of Bursar was F. Dallas (1916-34), followed by Angus MacLucas (1935-48). In the 1950s, Dean of Commerce Earle D. MacPhee held the title of "Honorary Bursar." UBC had grown to the extent financial affairs required a full-time staff of ten people to manage accounting, buildings and grounds, food services, purchasing, and the book store. The Office of the Bursar continued to grow as its responsibilities evolved. Walter White was the last to hold the title of Bursar until his retirement in 1984. That year, A.B. Gellatly was named the first Vice-President of Finance. Since the 1980s, the responsible vice-presidential positions have been Finance, Finance and Administration, or Financial Services. At various times, they have had ultimate responsibility for such services as supply management, campus security, the UBC Bookstore, the Development Office, food services, land and building services, human resources, budgeting, treasury, and other business and financial operations.

Joseph A.F. Gardner was Dean of the Faculty of Forestry from 1965-1983.

Barbara Gibson was a faculty member of the University of British Columbia's School of Librarianship (later the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, now the iSchool). She was also a UBC graduate of the Class of '35 and left in 1936 to pursue a nursing career.

In 1966 and 1967, Woodward Library acquired the Sister Mary Gonzaga letters, which came together with Florence Nightingale letters from Goodspeed Dealers in Boston. These letters were later transferred to Rare Books and Special Collections in 2013. At the time of the acquisition, Gibson became interested in Sister Mary Gonzaga's life, a Canadian nurse born in 1825 who spent most of her life in Britain. During the following years, Gibson compiled research materials from various other sources, mostly from the United Kingdom, to write a Sister Mary Gonzaga biography.

UBC has a rich history of interdisciplinary studies across many faculties and departments. In 1953, UBC created Canada's first Program in Community and Regional Planning, an interdisciplinary program placed within the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Subsequent interdisciplinary programs include the Genetics Graduate Program, the Institute for Animal Resource Ecology, Applied Mathematics and Statistics Institute, the Individual Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program, and the Institute of Asian Research. Indeed, growing and nurturing UBC's interdisciplinary and teaching activities was one of the Faculty of Graduate Studies (the other being to maintain the academic integrity and provide administrative services to graduate programs).
Because of the phenomenal growth in interdisciplinary studies, in 2004, the UBC Vice President Academic and Provost began to consider restructuring the interdisciplinary units at UBC. As a result of a two-year consultation process, including wide circulation of a discussion paper and individual and committee participation, the UBC Senate and Board of Governors approved the creation of the College for Interdisciplinary Studies (CfIS). This new entity, which formally came into existence on January 1, 2007, held equivalent status as a UBC Faculty but had a Principal and not a Dean.
The College for Interdisciplinary Studies was given the mandate to facilitate and support interdisciplinarity campus-wide, and as part of that mandate, to serve as a place for the creation, development, and dissemination of new and essential scholarly activities which advance the interests of UBC as a whole (CfIS Annual Report 2006/2007 page 4). In addition, the College aimed to build on and promote UBC's reputation and standing amongst world universities for leadership in interdisciplinary research and teaching. Within the College, collaborative teams of researchers sought to find innovative solutions to complex problems. Furthermore, they supported UBC's commitments towards a civil and sustainable society and global citizenship.
The College for Interdisciplinary Studies had 12 research units and 12 graduate programs. The research units took the form of schools, institutes and centres. Specifically, in 2010, the 12 research units were: W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics (CAE); Institute of Applied Mathematics (IAM); Institute of Asian Research (IAR); School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP); Institute for European Studies (IES); Fisheries Centre (FC); Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP); Liu Institute for Global Issues (LIGI); Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC); Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES); School of Environmental Health (SOEH); Centre for Women's and Gender Studies (CWAGS). Moreover, the 12 graduate programs were: Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAPPS); Bioinformatics; Cell and Developmental Biology; European Studies; Genetics; Genome Science and Technology (GSAT); Neuroscience; Occupational and Environmental Hygiene; Interdisciplinary Oncology; Planning; Resource Management and Environmental Studies (RMES); and Women's and Gender Studies.
In the autumn of 2010, the College for Interdisciplinary Studies went through an external review process to determine its most appropriate structure and direction. Following this review and the subsequent External Committee Report, the UBC Senate passed a motion on March 20, 2013, to transfer the graduate programs to the various Faculties and close the CfIS. As a result, the College for Interdisciplinary Studies was formally closed on October 1, 2013.

Martha C. Piper was born in Lorain, Ohio in 1945. Piper is the first woman to serve as President of UBC and the first person born outside Canada to have held the position. Piper holds a BSc in physical therapy from the University of Michagan (1967), an MA in child development from the University of Connecticut, 1970 and a Ph.D. in epidemiology and biostatistics from McGill University, 1979. Prior to serving as president at UBC Piper was Vice-President of Research and External Affairs at the University of Alberta. Piper took over from David Strangway and served as President of UBC from 1997 to 2006. She later served a second term as President, from September 2015 to June 2016. On this occasion, she was succeeded by David H. Farrar.

Composed of representatives of the Provincial Ministry of Agriculture, Agriculture Canada, and the UBC Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, the British Columbia Agricultural Coordinating Committee advised the Minister of Agriculture and allotted research funds for research projects within the province.

Organized by the University of British Columbia President N.A.M. MacKenzie and Gordon Shrum in 1945 to provide housing for returning veterans interested in continuing their education, Acadia Camp became the first residential unit on campus. Army huts assembled on the university grounds helped alleviate serious accommodation shortages following World War II. The Acadia Camp Householders' Association was formed shortly after 1945 to address the collective interests of the residents.

At Canada's Confederation in 1867, the federal government was given authority over the fisheries and set up the Department of Marine and Fisheries. In 1875, the Dominion Commissioner of Fisheries recommended that the Fisheries Act apply to British Columbia.

B.C. Studies was established in late 1968 by its first editors Margaret Prang and Walter Young. While professors in the Faculty of Arts at UBC, both Prang and Young, perceived a need to establish a journal to publish the work of British Columbia's expanding scholarly community. In support of this endeavour, UBC provided office space and a business manager to operate within the administrative structure of the University's Publications Centre, which later became UBC Press (1971). As a quarterly journal, B.C. Studies communicates the results of scholarly inquiry in various fields relating to British Columbia. B.C. Studies also reviews books dealing with the province and publishes a comprehensive bibliography of material. The intellectual direction of the journal has been monitored through an editorial board made up of representatives from British Columbian universities. Prang and Young remained co-editors until 1983 when Allan Smith replaced them. Jean Barman and Cole Harris became co-editors in 1995, succeeded in turn by R.A.J. McDonald in 2002, and Graeme Wynn in 2008. B.C. Studies has been supported through funding from UBC, the University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University, and various government funding agencies.