The University of British Columbia

In this edition:

• Blame it on chemo brain
• Creatures great and small
• Growing growers at UBC Farm
• UBC gets personal
• Forestry: the new high-tech frontier
• Nursing students learn from African colleagues
• Uncertain times on the ‘roof of the world’
• All in the family: passing it on to the next generation
• Mysteries of unconsciousness
• Starting small, aiming big
• In their own words: Letters

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In this edition:

• Chill out: graduating engineer helps invent therapeutic blanket
• Brewing ideas to transform campus
• Five for five
• From opera to the Supreme Court
• An alumna, 70 years later
• Best not lie to this Psychology PhD graduate
• Life story fosters vision to serve disadvantaged
• Deathbed promises launched master’s research
• ‘Juno’ actress finding happiness in research
• Road to degree a personal journey
• New dentist parks his longboard, but not for good
• Grad sprouts vision of wholesome food
• UBC honours staff excellence
• Outtakes

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In this edition:

• UBC Dentistry “adopts” Florence Nightingale
• UBC offers China business program
• Social capital and the great beyond
• UBC weighs affordable housing options
• Protecting our freshwater
• Aiming high
• The plight of orphan diseases
• Missing nutrients
• Language, race and social change
• outtakes
• Want to learn Chinese characters? UBC has an app for that

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In this edition:

• A new window on patients’ personal struggles
• Atop Everest for health research
• Shining stars
• Only 3 minutes to save the world
• Righting a 70-year wrong
• Five ways UTown@UBC is innovating sustainability
• Part of the carbon storage solution
• Anniversary of Japan disaster: UBC Library exhibit supports reflection, healing
• One year after
• Sleepless children, exhausted parents
• Early Alert comes to UBC
• Tennis madness sweeps UBC

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In this edition:

• The Olympic jolt
• Seeking precious minutes of focused attention
• Animals in research
• China 2012 The year of living dangerously
• Six things science tells us about happiness
• Toxic gold rush
• Do advertising bans work?
• Outtakes

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In this edition:

• UBC welcomes world’s scientists to Vancouver
• AAAS by the numbers
• Regenerative Sustainability: From damage control to improving the environment
• Test drives helping defeat HIV/AIDS: B.C. approach points way to ending world epidemic
• The Oracle meets Nereus: Predicting the Future Ocean
• Beating Alzheimer’s:
  a progress report
• From the Forest to the Highway: How close are we to advanced biofuels?
• Moving toward genuine water security
• Seeing is believing: New ways to envision our future with climate change
• Look who’s talking! What we are learning from babies about language acquisition
• Bad fish arithmetic: government reports and actual catches don’t add up

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In this edition:

• Why fashionistas dislike copycats
• Program inspires equality and inclusion
• Prevention trumps punishment
• UBC’s Teacher Education Program gets a makeover
• Preparing teachers for the job market
• You want to be a teacher? Then get out of the classroom
• Pioneering pain management
• Reaching vulnerable populations in oral health care
• Student unlocks secrets to blood flow in brain
• New campaign harnesses the power of alumni, donors

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In this edition:

• UBC opens North America’s greenest building
• Window to the future
• Engineering a greener future
• Build it and they will stay
• UBC’s roadmap to zero emissions
• Turning global problems into solutions
• Going green abroad
• Growing social sustainability at UBC Farm
• Public health professor pursues tuition-free online university
• Harnessing nature’s energy to heat an entire campus
• outtakes

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In this edition:

• UBC archeologist partners with coroner to solve cold cases
• Lessons on how we learn best
• Celebrate Learning Week
• UBC Science World lab promotes fun, learning and tolerance
• Blessed are the cheesemakers
• Food science students survey industry, alumni
• 2011 UNITED WAY
• A clinic where students run the shop
• Stress, anxiety, depression: just another part of student life… right?
• How to thrive at UBC: eight dimensions of well-being
• Making a smarter ski goggle in the middle of summer
• outtakes

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In this edition:

• Culture Shock
• World, meet the Okanagan
• New tool measures sustainability of sports events
• Engineering students “travel” the world to embrace ambiguity
• The deliciousness investigators
• Grey’s Anatomy: 
UBC edition
• Learning out of the box
• Sustainability learning by osmosis
• Back to school and in the cloud

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