UBC Reports

October 2010

Forest of clean fuel

On Dec. 15, the government will require at least five per cent of the gasoline used for transportation in Canada to be made of renewable content.

By Heather Amos

Assistant Professor Graham Brown says the dynamics of an office can be complicated.

Staking your office territory

UBC prof studies the dynamics of territory and ownership at work.

By Jody Jacob

Nursing Associate Professor Lynda Balneaves says attitudes are changing towards alternative therapies.

Researchers find evidence for complementary therapies

A joint UBC-BC Cancer Agency initiative called the Complementary Medicine Education and Outcomes Research Program (CAMEO) is contributing to a paradigm shift for patients and health professionals alike, according to Assoc. Prof. Lynda Balneaves.

By Lorraine Chan

A safe port in a storm

When a friend introduced Serena Gibson to a joint UBC – BC Cancer Agency initiative to help her assess complementary therapies, Gibson says it was like finding a safe port in a storm.

By Lorraine Chan

Turning patients into professors

A UBC project is helping future doctors, nurses, social workers and other health professionals learn from those they are being trained to serve.

By Brian Lin

Celebrate Learning

Vancouver campus profiles best practises.

By Heather Amos

Student researcher Chara DeVolder visited remote Papua New Guinea villages to help preserve endangered Indigenous languages.

Putting it in writing

Okanagan undergrad travels to remote village to help preserve Indigenous language

By Jody Jacob

Led by PhD student Olga Pena, UBC students (in green T-shirts) facilitated science experiments and activities design to inspire and educate Colombian high school students.

Microscopes without borders

Anyone questioning the impact a single individual can have on the world should meet Olga Pena. The daughter of a housewife and dam builder, Pena led a team of UBC students on a “field trip” to Colombia this summer, where they inspired more than 1,000 students to take up beakers and microscopes as a means to combat poverty and neglected tropical diseases.

By Brian Lin

The UBC Auto Rickshaw study team: Prof. Milind Kandlikar, UBC Liu Institute for Global Issues and IRES Prof. Steve Rogak, UBC Canada Research Chair in Clean Energy Systems Doctoral student Conor Reynolds, Resource Management and Environmental Studies Post-doctoral student Andy Grieshop, IRES Mechanical Engineering student Dan Boland Mechanical Engineering student Christie Lagally Expensive programs to switch auto rickshaws to clean fuels may not reduce less harmful emissions.

Re-thinking the rickshaw

If you’ve been to parts of Asia or Africa, chances are a three-wheeled auto rickshaw got you from A to B. Cheap to drive and compact enough for a driver to whisk passengers through crowded streets, they are a vital mode of transportation for billions of people around the world everyday. But under their brightly painted exteriors, auto rickshaws have a dark side, a new UBC study has found.

By Basil Waugh

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