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$5.4M gift from Stone Foundation establishes Canada’s first Stone Centre on Wealth and Income Inequality at UBC’s Vancouver School of Economics

 
Read the announcement on the official Stone Centre website UBC is proud to be partnering with the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation to enable deeper engagement in research that sheds light on the causes and adverse consequences of wealth

Five VSE alumni, students and faculty receive numerous awards for their service and research

 
As the academic year comes to a close and our community collects, once more, on the UBC campus to celebrate the graduation of the Class of 2024, we at the Vancouver School of Economics wish to acknowledge and congratulate the numerous award

Three hires mark end of successful faculty recruiting year for VSE

 
The Vancouver School of Economics welcomes Ying Gao (PhD MIT ‘24), Miguel Ortiz (PhD Berkeley ‘24) and Charlie Rafkin (PhD MIT ‘24) to join the faculty, marking the end of a successful recruiting year for the VSE. [caption
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