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New Director of CIRS Ray Cole says we should expand our focus from creating green buildings to creating sustainable patterns of living.
Nov 4, 2013
Submitted by: Xiong Zhang My research is detecting the roles of physical (habitat structure), chemical (water quality) and biological (prey and predators) drivers in the population dynamics of seahorse species. […]
Submitted by: Andre Phillion While most of us are familiar with CT scanning as a medical device, this tool is also being used to revolutionize the way that engineers characterize […]
Submitted by: Pieter Cullis Personalized medicine–medicine based on the molecular makeup of the individual–is gaining enormous popularity worldwide. Over 50 per cent of commonly prescribed drugs do not work on […]
Submitted by: Kishor Wasan The Wasan Lab, in conjunction with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, CIHR and iCo Therapeutics, have developed a novel tropically stable oral formulation of Amphotericin […]
Submitted by: Linda Siegel An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. This trite saying is true and gets a new meaning from some recent research at UBC. Working with […]
Submitted by: Natalie Sopinka Does knowing how fast an animal’s heart beats help save it from extinction? If a plant only grows in acidic soil is it likely to become […]
Submitted by: Dr. Melissa Autumn White A source of fascination and fear, cross-species viruses challenge the very possibility of “sovereign subjects” and “sovereign nations” so central to Western epistemologies. Unsurprisingly, […]
Submitted by: Dr. John Falconer Consumer grade tablet computers can be used to connect a patient and a health care provider together anywhere. Our eHealth laboratory is developing the processes […]
Submitted by: Evan Wood Substance use disorder, better known as addiction, is one of society’s most common and costly diseases. While moralistic views and stigma towards people with addiction have worsened […]
The #RippleEffectUBC campaign shines the spotlight on sustainability at UBC.
Nov 4, 2013 - by Heather Amos
The UBC women’s field hockey team became the first school in history to win three straight national titles, capturing their 15th McCrae Cup.
The Making of Post-Socialist Citizens in South Korea Mon Nov 4 2013, 3:30 PM – 5 PM C.K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asian Research This talk aims to […]
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