Posts Tagged ‘technology’

Former hockey player and Sauder MBA grad Dustin Sproat’s app connects NHL players and their fans. Wendy D Photograph

Playing the numbers

May. 1, 2013 | Filed under: Beats, Business, Law and Society, Science, Health and Technology, UBC Reports Stories | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Business grad and tech startup CEO Dustin Sproat scores NHL interest with hockey app

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UBC education experts for back-to-school stories

Aug. 8, 2012 | Filed under: Hot Topics, Media Advisory, News Feed | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

UBC experts are available to comment on kindergarten to Grade 12 and post-secondary education issues.

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A new Asian language app by (left-right) faculty members Ross King, Duanduan Li and Rebecca Chau combines resources for Mandarin, Japanese and Korean. Martin Dee Photograph

Want to learn Chinese characters? UBC has an app for that

May. 10, 2012 | Filed under: UBC Reports Stories | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

The UBC Asian Studies App is the first university Asian language mobile application and boasts 10,000 digitally animated Chinese characters.

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UBC, Fraunhofer formalize partnership among world’s top clean energy researchers

Mar. 8, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The University of British Columbia today forged a formal partnership with Germany’s Fraunhofer, Europe’s largest research institution for applied research, to focus on renewable-energy technologies.

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From left to right: George Cope, President and CEO of Bell Canada and BCE; Ross MacGillivray, Vice Dean, UBC Faculty of Medicine; Clara Hughes, Canadian Olympian and Bell Let's Talk national spokesperson; Sarah Morgan-Silvester, UBC Chancellor; Barbara Miles, UBC Vice President of Development and Alumni Engagement; Mary Deacon, chair of the Bell Let's Talk initiative; Michael Krausz, professor of psychiatry. Photo: Don Erhardt

UBC receives $1M from Bell for online youth mental health outreach and research

Nov. 16, 2011 | Filed under: Media Release | Tags: , , , , , , ,

Vancouver, November 16, 2011 – Today UBC and Bell announced a $1M gift to establish the Bell Youth Mental Health IMPACT project. This initiative will enable researchers from the University of British Columbia to conduct mental health outreach to youth in need.

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Trio of studies reveals attitudes of women, obstetricians and family physicians on use of technology in childbirth

Jun. 13, 2011 | Filed under: Media Release | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Three studies by University of British Columbia and Child & Family Research Institute (CFRI) researchers are providing the closest look yet at the attitudes of women and their caregivers around the use of birth technology, and together reveal ongoing misperceptions among caregivers around the safety of vaginal births.

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