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UBC Media Coverage Summary – 02/12/2016

UBC Media Coverage Summary – 02/12/2016 The UBC Media Coverage Summary is compiled by UBC Public Affairs. Sign up for other Public Affairs e-mail services at http://news.ubc.ca/media-resources/digital-subscriptions/. Fear of a […]

SCARP Symposium – Contours and Coastlines: Deconstructing the Pacific Northwest

The School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) Symposium will integrate indigenous and environmental perspectives of what it means to plan in the Pacific Northwest in a discussion titled Contours […]

Three-Minute Thesis competition

Hosted by various Faculty of Applied Science departments, the Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) is an academic competition in which participants have three minutes to explain their research project to a non-specialist audience. The […]

Concrete Toboggan Team celebrates strong showing at GNCTR 2015

The UBC Concrete Toboggan Team returned with a strong showing at the 2015 Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race (GNCTR) hosted by UBC Okanagan’s School of Engineering. Despite an almost catastrophic sled […]

Electrical and computer engineering researcher merges two technologies

Electrical and computer engineering professor Vincent Wong is focusing his research on integrating cloud computing and smart mobile devices. These two technologies are poised to transform applications such as mobile […]

Equity Enhancement Fund accepting proposals

Do you have a great idea for a project to help make UBC a more equitable, diverse and inclusive campus? The Equity Enhancement Fund is available to all students, faculty […]

UBC Reports | February 12

UBC Reports | February 12

UBC This Week – 12-Feb-2015

  Recent UBC Media Releases  Feb 12  Why out-of-touch idealists have the happiest marriages  Feb 12  UBC graduate student helps unravel the genetic foundation of her own family’s tragedy Feb […]

A Robot in Every Home

UBC engineering prof. Elizabeth Croft is programming robots to interpret physical cues from humans.

Odyssey to the Sacred Headwaters