Posts Tagged ‘technology’
May. 1, 2013 | Filed under: Beats, Business, Law and Society, Science, Health and Technology, UBC Reports Stories | Tags: Dragon's Den, Dustin Sproat, hockey, MBA, mobile app, sauder school of business, social media, social networking, tech start-up, technology
Business grad and tech startup CEO Dustin Sproat scores NHL interest with hockey app
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Aug. 8, 2012 | Filed under: Hot Topics, Media Advisory, News Feed | Tags: back-to-school, early alert, Education, experts, k-12, learning, post-secondary education, teaching, technology, UBC, university, University of British Columbia
UBC experts are available to comment on kindergarten to Grade 12 and post-secondary education issues.
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May. 10, 2012 | Filed under: UBC Reports Stories | Tags: arts, asia, business, china, Education, Japan, Korea, language apps, learning, studentlife, technology, university apps
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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Mar. 8, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: Applied Science, biomass, CIRS, clean energy, Clean Energy Research Centre, commercialisation, engineering, environment, Fraunhofer, greenhouse gas emissions target, hydrogen and biofuels, knowledge transfer, learning, living laboratory, research, sustainability, technology
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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Nov. 16, 2011 | Filed under: Media Release | Tags: Bell, health, mental health, Michael Krausz, online, technology, web portal, youth
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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Jun. 13, 2011 | Filed under: Media Release | Tags: c-section, Cesarean, CFRI, childbirth, health, health care, maternal, Michael Klei, midwives, obstetricians, obstetrics, Safety, technology, vaginal births, women
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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