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Media availability upon request with UBC researcher and Afghanistan veteran recently funded by Movember to address men’s depression, prostate cancer recovery and PTSD in veterans. John Oliffe, health researcher and […]
Oct 31, 2013
Submitted by: Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur In the field of human learning and development, researchers have begun to attend to culture as more than just a variable in a complicated human […]
Recent UBC Media Releases Oct 31 Tagging aquatic animals can disrupt natural behaviour Oct 29 UBC President, VP Students to speak on recent sexual assaults on the Vancouver campus […]
Last year’s experimental discovery of the Higgs Boson culminated a search that spanned almost 50 years since the original theoretical prediction of Higgs, Brout, and Englert (awarded a Nobel Prize […]
Canadian Space Agency Astronaut David Saint-Jacques will give a talk about his training, the journey that led him to become a Canadian astronaut and give an overview of Canadian Space […]
Nursing professor John Oliffe and colleagues will hold an open forum titled Masculinities and Men’s Depression and Suicide Network, a Movember-funded event about men’s mental health facilitated by UBC faculty, […]
UBC News is inviting members of its community to describe, in 100 words, a new development in your field of study that is really cool. Submissions must be made by […]
The UBC Faculty Pension Plan Election for two Pension Board trustees is now under way. Election packages were mailed to members on Oct. 18, 2013. Plan members can vote by […]
Mining Engineering Professor Emeritus Janusz Laskowski was honoured at the 50th Symposium Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing. Laskiwski organized the first 11 symposia from 1966 to 1980. Materials Engineering professors […]
UBC MBA graduate Dustin Sproat brought his A-game to CBC’s Dragon’s Den on Wednesday night.
FPInnovations has awarded the FPInnovations Professorship in Pulp and Paper Engineering to James Olson, director of UBC’s Pulp and Paper Centre. Olson is recognized for his leadership in helping to […]
Building projects at UBC have been honoured at the 2013 Architectural Institute of British Columbia Architectural Awards. • Faculty of Arts Buchanan Courtyards Renew project by PUBLIC: Architecture + Communication received […]
Julian Dierkes, Keidanren Chair of Japanese Research at UBC’s Institute of Asian Research, was awarded a Governor General’s Medallion during Governor General David Johnston’s recent state visit to Mongolia (read […]
Zoology professor Jane Roskams has been recognized by the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) with a Bernice Grafstein Award and $2,000 during its annual meeting, Neuroscience 2013. A renowned expert on […]
This year’s Annual Remembrance Day ceremony at UBC will be held on Monday, Nov. 11 in the War Memorial Gym. The ceremony, which often draws more than 1,000 people, will […]
Submitted by: Dr. Ian Stuart The results are in! An empirical research project recently conducted by Dr. Ian Stuart examined wineries in BC, Ontario, Washington, Oregon and California that had combined lodging […]
Submitted by: Kyle Gillespie The ocean is jammed with fascinating creatures – giant squid, colourful crabs and exotic snails. We call them invertebrates – animals without backbones. They are 95% […]
Submitted by: Martin Puterman Professor Puterman and his team are currently focused on creating scheduling methodologies for booking patient appointments with oncologists. For example, they may break down the schedule […]
Submitted by: Estelle Arbellay Tree rings are like pages of a book, they tell a story. Like sentences are made of words that shape the story, tree rings are built […]
Submitted by: Steven Shechter Dr. Steven Shechter harnesses the power of advanced statistical and mathematical models, driven by health care data, to improve clinical decisions made by patients and physicians. He […]
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