Dentist cures root canal blues
If all you want for Christmas are your two front teeth, then give Santa a call. But if you’re facing a complicated root canal, a dentist trained in endodontics would be a better bet.
UBC pioneers child rights monitoring
Ziba Vaghri is working with the United Nations to highlight the rights of the youngest members of society.
UBC makes mental health a priority
One of the most important factors affecting a student’s academic success is mental wellbeing. The university is developing an integrated plan to build awareness and improve access to services.
Bhangra delivers safe farming message
Anne-Marie Nicol is getting creative with communicating health risks to members of British Columbia’s farming community— Bollywood-style.
COMM 101 – Tweet, click, blog: A new way to learn business
COMM 101 is a social-media-meets-pedagogy experiment that is drawing strong reviews from Sauder School of Business students.
mHealth: The next big thing in global health, and at home?
The passage of another World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 provides a fitting occasion to take stock of the disease’s toll, but also the progress we’ve made in combating it.
UBC Library and the digital future
Google has done some amazing things using libraries. They partnered with libraries and then digitized scads of material, and made those available. We (the library community) could have done that.
Expanded parental leave: Are children better off?
Nearly 10 years later, the national program that doubled parental leave benefits has produced little evidence of improved early childhood development.
Highlights of UBC media coverage in November 2010
Can a volcano spawn salmon? The BBC, NPR, Nature News and the Globe and Mail reported on the speculation that a 2008 volcanic eruption on an Alaskan island was responsible […]
Reflections on academic life Trapping antimatter “tremendously exciting” for Prof. Walter Hardy
A research team called the ALPHA Collaboration, with a strong contingent of Canadians, has trapped antimatter for the first time at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), the world’s largest particle physics lab located in Geneva, Switzerland. Their discovery was published in the November 18 edition of Nature.
