UBC Dentistry “adopts” Florence Nightingale

The Faculty has opened a dental clinic at the Vancouver school as part of its Adopt a School Program.

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UBC offers China business program

Participants get a crash course on fundamentals such as copyright protection, negotiation styles, navigating government, opening factories and hiring staff.

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Social capital and the great beyond

Palliative-care providers in rural B.C. have a champion in Barb Pesut, who’s been immersed in exploratory fieldwork since 2008.

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UBC weighs affordable housing options

The University has released potential housing program options designed to help attract and retain the best people.

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Protecting our freshwater

Since the 1970s foresters have left a buffer zone of 30 metres around freshwater streams. Now, the rules are changing. But John Richardson wants to see hard data.

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Aiming high

The African Institute of Mathematical Sciences helped Felix Oghenekohwo pursue his love of numbers. A new partnership may soon see other African students pursue studies at UBC.

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The plight of orphan diseases

Prof. Larry Lynd is leading a team that has just received $1.5 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to study funding policies for treating rare diseases.

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Missing nutrients

Judy McLean has helped form a partnership with the Rwandan government to deliver micronutrients to 150,000 children.

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Language, race and social change

Prof. Ryuko Kubota will present a case study on second language education and issues of race and multiculturalism at a Vancouver conference of 12,000 education researchers.

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outtakes

Museum of Anthropology curator Karen Duffek talks about receiving two major Northwest Coast artworks.

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In the news

Highlights of UBC media coverage in March 2012

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

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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