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May. 15, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: BC-CfE, community engagement, FoM, health, HIV/AIDS, learning, research excellence, Student Learning, Trudeau Foundation, UHRI
Daniel Werb, senior research assistant at the Addiction and Urban Health Research Initiative (UHRI) at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE), has been awarded the 2012 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship for his PhD research project investigating initiation and cessation of injection drug use among street youth in Vancouver.
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May. 14, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: Bike, bikeability, BikeScore, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, cycling, FoM, health, SPPH, sustainability, walkability, WalkScore
University of British Columbia researchers are making bikeability research easily accessible to consumers and city planners by introducing bikeability “heat maps” in partnership with Seattle-based Walk Score® at www.walkscore.com/bike.
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May. 14, 2012 | Filed under: News Feed, Uncategorized
The University of British Columbia has selected Kari Grist to be Managing Director of the newly created Department of Communications & Marketing. She will join the portfolio of incoming Vice President of Communications and Community Partnership, Pascal Spothelfer.
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May. 8, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: avian flu, BCCDC, Biomedical Research Centre, bird flu, Canadian Institute for Health Research, CIHR, Faculty of Science, flu, FoS, H5N1, health, HIN1, influenza, research excellence, swine flu, universal flu vaccine
University of British Columbia researchers have found a potential way to develop universal flu vaccines and eliminate the need for seasonal flu vaccinations.
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May. 7, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: bankdrupty, business, Chapter 11 bankruptcy, finance, hedge fund, investment, investments, research, sauder school of business
New University of British Columbia research shows that – contrary to popular opinion – hedge funds have a positive influence when investing in U.S. companies filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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