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.
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.
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.
Putting it in writing
Okanagan undergrad travels to remote village to help preserve Indigenous language
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.
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.
Buchanan re-born
Over the past 50 years, thousands of students, faculty and staff have made the Buchanan complex the hub of everything “Arts.”
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.
UBC cultivates vision for farm
A new plan for the UBC Farm will make it a world-class hub for sustainability research, teaching and learning.
UBC’s United Way Campaign
UBC’s Pierre Ouillet, vice-president finance, resources and operations, is going to jail and he won’t come out. Ouillet will be stuck behind bars until he raises $250 for bail.
Highlights of UBC media coverage in September 2010
World pays high price for overfishing, studies say Reuters, Agence France Presse, CBC, CTV and the Vancouver Sun reported that decades of overfishing have deprived the food industry of billions […]
