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UBC experts on Canada-U.S. softwood lumber dispute

UBC experts on Canada-U.S. softwood lumber dispute

UBC experts are available to comment on the softwood lumber trade dispute between Canada and the United States.

Oct 12, 2016

Let snow provide cheap air conditioning during warmer months

UBC engineering professor Kasun Hewage and colleagues have found a way to use snow for air conditioning in warmer months, the Ottawa Citizen reported. They found that running an apartment building’s air supply through […]

Oct 12, 2016

The Colombia peace accord: ‘The only possible way forward’

The Globe and Mail published an op-ed by UBC anthropology professor Wade Davis about the value of the Colombia government’s peace accord with Marxist guerillas after it was narrowly rejected by voters. “It […]

Oct 12, 2016

Two versions of Brooklyn in one building

The New York Times interviewed Katherine White, the chair of the marketing and behavioral science division at UBC’s Sauder School of Business, about the reasons a building developer designed two […]

Oct 12, 2016

B.C. not using earthquake warning technology

Kent Johansen, an engineer with UBC’s Earthquake Engineering Research Facility, was quoted in a CBC story on earthquake warning technology. UBC researchers have developed a warning system used in B.C. Catholic schools and a […]

Oct 12, 2016

Bangladesh’s ‘rickshaw faculty’: a nadir of academic exploitation

Matt Husain, a PhD candidate at UBC’s Okanagan campus, was featured in Times Higher Education. Over six weeks, Husain spent six weeks conducting an ethnographic study of faculty and students in […]

Oct 12, 2016

New synthetic alcohol promises drinking without hangovers

Mark Haden, a UBC professor in the School of Population and Public Health, was interviewed on CBC Radio’s The Current about a synthetic alcohol called alcosynth that does not produce […]

Oct 12, 2016

MBA programs across Canada

UBC’s Sauder School of Business was mentioned in a Maclean’s article comparing enrolment statistics for MBA programs across Canada. Enrolment numbers for the 2016-17 academic year show 35 per cent […]

Oct 12, 2016

Halting Site C construction could save $112-million annually

DeSmog Canada cited a UBC study for a story on the proposed Site C dam project in B.C. The recent UBC analysis found the Site C dam is the most […]

Oct 12, 2016

Condos won’t be immune in case of market correction

News 1130 quoted UBC economics professor Thomas Davidoff in a story on one realtor who believes Vancouver’s condo market will not hold up in the case of a major correction. Davidoff weighed […]

Oct 12, 2016

Vancouver hosts international conference on housing affordability

Experts from Vancouver and around the world will aim to help Vancouver’s housing affordability crisis at an upcoming conference, Metro News reported. Approximately 500 housing experts are expected to attend […]

Oct 12, 2016

Vilgrain brings scoring touch to UBC

The Province featured UBC hockey player Cassandra Vilgrain who scored three goals and contributed two assists in the Thunderbirds’ Canada West season opening weekend. “She has such a quick release […]

Oct 12, 2016

Heat women’s soccer takes 2 from TRU

The UBC Okanagan Heat women’s soccer team kept their 2016 playoff hopes alive by sweeping the Thompson Rivers University Wolfpack, Kelowna Capital News reported. The Heat earned a 2-0 victory […]

Oct 12, 2016

Lecture: Threats from Nuclear Weapons and Materials

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Oct 12, 2016

Actor hopes sitcom helps boost Asian-Canadian representation

The Georgia Straight featured UBC alumna Andrea Bang who is the lead actor in the first Asian-Canadian sitcom that airs on CBC. Bang plays the daughter of immigrant Korean parents who […]

Oct 12, 2016

2016 BC CEO Awards: Debra Hewson

Business in Vancouver profiled UBC alumna Debra Hewson, the CEO of Odlum Brown Ltd. She graduated from UBC in 1981 with a double major in psychology and political science then went […]

Oct 12, 2016