Lending a voice
UBC’s Crane Library provides students with audio recorded materials. It is sustained by volunteers like Mary Taitt
Heart disease high among immigrant group
Study aims to find better ways to promote cardiac rehabilitation
Improving dental ergonomics
Hunching over like Quasimodo can take its toll, but until recently, dentists didn’t know they had a choice.
Wrongful conviction
A legal expert is examining how factors like improper expert testimony may derail the justice system
High school students solve UBC murder mystery
A researcher is found dead hunched over her lab bench, and seven suspects are in custody. Now it’s up to 30 high school students to determine who killed her.
A home that doesn’t need heat
Building a B.C. version of a European home that stays warm without a furnace
Green features come to life
A campus building that will model new environmental technologies nears completion
Investigating violence against Aboriginal women
In quiet moments, PhD student Robyn Bourgeois sometimes finds herself wondering what might have become of serial killer Robert Pickton’s victims had they escaped the culture of drugs and violence that plagues women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Highlights of UBC media coverage in March 2011
UBC RESEARCH ‘Clean fuel’ not always successful As reported by the New Scientist, United Press International and the Vancouver Sun, UBC researchers say a program in New Delhi, India, to […]
