Canada’s man in Asia
After nearly 40 years in Canada’s Foreign Service—where he served as Canada’s top diplomat to Asia – it is fair to say Caron found adventure in spades.
Forests sustain those living with HIV/AIDS
In rural areas of Malawi, where poverty is widespread and the rates of HIV/AIDS infection are high, one UBC researcher is looking at how the forest is helping to support people.
Vacation blues: Global tourism can harm communities
You’ve been riding a bus through a foreign country and arrive early in the morning in a town square. As you get off the bus, young boys approach you and start speaking to you. They try several languages—English, French, Italian, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese—waiting for you to pick up on one of them.
How can parents prevent teenagers from dropping out of high school?
New UBC research finds that the importance parents place on education at home can play a major factor on teens’ decision to continue high school or drop out.
UBC’s newest school gets a new director
Ask Dr. David Patrick about Canada’s early explorer David Thompson, and he’ll tell you how his leadership style is still relevant today.
Crocodile tears? Facial clues reveal fake or sincere remorse
A new study led by Leanne ten Brinke, a PhD Candidate of psychology at UBC’s Okanagan campus, investigates how genuine and falsified remorse reveals itself on the human face, and how these facial clues can help detect whether a person is faking regret or sincerely sorry.
Diet, heart disease and diabetes: What’s the connection?
Certain vegetable oil-based products may increase heart complications in diabetics, says UBC researcher Sanjoy Ghosh.
Reflections on academic life
UBC physicists and civil engineers have successfully tested a theory by eminent physicist Stephen Hawking. In 1974, Hawking posited that black holes emit a weak level of radiation even as they exert gravitational pulls so strong that little can escape, not even light. The UBC team published results in a recent issue of Physical Review Letters.
Celebrate Research Week March 4 – 11 2011
Research, the systematic search for new knowledge, happens every day at UBC. Every day, through scholarly publication, new ideas developed here form a platform for further exploration at research institutions around the world. At UBC, we take one week every year to reflect on, to illuminate and to educate our community about the richness of discovery in science and the humanities. It’s a week in March to Celebrate Research, a mirror of our September Celebrate Learning Week, and an invaluable window on the best of what remarkable minds are doing in this remarkable place.
Highlights of UBC media coverage in February 2011
UBC RESEARCH Roasting coffee beans United Press International, the Globe and Mail, the Canadian Press, the Vancouver Sun and others reported on a new study that suggests that roasting coffee […]
