Putting students to work
Close to 500 students get summer jobs at UBC through Work Study and Work Learn Programs
Summer camps: offerings include novel options like health and technology
The lazy days of summer – time for selling lemonade on the sidewalk, watching Canadians games at Nat Bailey Stadium, hanging around the pool, and.… learning about health technology?
How to grow the perfect tomato
Hairy vetch hardly sounds like something that will help tomatoes taste more like summer and sunshine.
Making green roofs greener
Engineers at UBC’s Okanagan campus develop construction process with global potential
Canadians and Americans are more similar than assumed
For many Canadians, comparing Canada and the U.S. is a national pastime, right up there with hockey and complaining about the weather.
UBC Dentistry team Serves Penelakut First Nation
Mention a small B.C. island during July and most people assume sun, sand and vacation.
Wood revival at CIRS
Lumber, rarely a structural material in commercial buildings, is having a 21st-century revival at UBC’s Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability. It’s in beams, columns and floors and will help to make CIRS a regenerative building that improves its environment.
Redrawing UBC: Research maps knowledge
The need to navigate UBC’s complex web of research partnerships has sprung a first-of-its-kind project that could help a new UBC professor – and the rest of the world – visualize the strengths of the university’s enormous research enterprise and identify new opportunities for collaboration.
Highlights of UBC media coverage in June 2011
UBC EXPERTS COMMENT Vancouver Canucks, Stanley Cup Final and riots As the Vancouver Canucks tried to win their first Stanley Cup title, UBC researchers provided expert commentary for the New […]
