A study on what UBC researchers call Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) societies was in yesterday’s global edition of the New York Times. Psychology and Economics Prof. Joe Henrich led the study with co-authors Prof. Steven Heine and Prof. Ara Norenzayan. The study finds that subjects from WEIRD societies are more individualistic, analytic, [...]
The University of British Columbia ranks 36th in the recently released 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), prepared by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. UBC has consistently been ranked at 36th since 2006. Of the other Canadian universities in the top 100, the University of Toronto stays at 27th, McGill University moves up from 65 [...]
A specific type of fat present in cell membranes also serves as a cellular pH sensor, a team of University of British Columbia researchers has discovered.
They were moved because the government looked at the welfare costs
Six young Inuit from Nunavut Territory have travelled some 2,400 km to the University of British Columbia to re-examine the history of their communities. Many of their Elders were subjects of Farley Mowat’s well-known books, People of the Deer and The Desperate People, which documented famines that devastated many Inuit communities in the 1940s and [...]
Upcoming Event Highlights Aug. 19: Rising Stars of Research – National Undergraduate Research Poster Competition Aug. 19: Reading Group on Improvisation and Listening Studies Aug. 20: Providence Heart + Lung Institute Summer Student Research Day Aug. 21: UBC Farm Workshop – Seed saving and Plant Breeding Aug. 21: Blue Whale Preview Aug. 24: iClicker Training and Best Practices Aug. 25: Designing Evaluation [...]
UBC’s Wrestling Club held their third annual alumni dinner on Aug. 17. The dinner provided an opportunity for current female and male student wrestlers to meet and engage with alumni who once wrestled for the university. Alumnus Dr. Martin Gleave, chief scientific officer of OncoGenex, distinguished professor in UBC’s Dept. of Urological sciences and [...]
Six young Inuit from Nunavut Territory have travelled some 2,400 km to the University of British Columbia to re-examine the history of their communities. Many of their Elders were subjects of Farley Mowat’s well-known books, People of the Deer and The Desperate People, which documented famines that devastated many Inuit communities in the 1940s [...]
Canada should be quite concerned that we are being targeted by an operation that appears to be quite sophisticated
From Aug. 18 – 21, UBC will host the third Rising Stars of Research (RSR) Conference, a cross-disciplinary undergraduate research event that will give 117 Canadian and three Hong Kong students the opportunity to showcase their research accomplishments and develop a network of friends and colleagues. The centrepiece of RSR is a poster competition held [...]
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