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  • Time warp: How marketers express time can affect what consumers buy
    Society & Culture

    Time warp: How marketers express time can affect what consumers buy

    UBC Sauder research reveals how framing time—by years or by length—shapes consumer perceptions and pricing, from whiskey auctions to used goods.

Most Recent Stories

  • Active budget management supports UBC’s financial resilience  
    University News

    Active budget management supports UBC’s financial resilience  

    Guided by UBC’s Strategic Directions 2025-30, this process aligns resources with institutional priorities and reinforces UBC’s academic mission.

  • The Colombian border is one of the biggest obstacles to building a new Venezuela
    The Conversation

    The Colombian border is one of the biggest obstacles to building a new Venezuela

    Sally Sharif, Lecturer in Political Science

  • Canada’s Track 2 MAiD system presents challenges for assessors
    Health & Medicine

    Canada’s Track 2 MAiD system presents challenges for assessors

    UBC researchers examine the challenges physicians and nurse practitioners face when assessing eligibility for Track 2 medical assistance in dying (MAiD).

  • UBC co-op programs fuel creativity and innovation in B.C.’s workforce
    University News

    UBC co-op programs fuel creativity and innovation in B.C.’s workforce

    Pushing the economy forward: UBC partnerships offer businesses fresh talent while giving students valuable experience

  • Breaking down research silos to understand a shifting Salish Sea
    University News

    Breaking down research silos to understand a shifting Salish Sea

    The Sentinels of Change Alliance shows what’s possible when collaboration is a foundation, not an add-on.

Explore

  • Carney reaches ‘landmark’ tariff deal with China

    CTV News
  • These fully grown sea lions won’t stop nursing, and scientists don’t know why

    CBC
  • B.C. feels tariff sting as exports to U.S. fall for seventh straight month

    Business in Vancouver
  • B.C. and feds sign lumber understanding with China, as province looks beyond U.S.

    The Canadian Press

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  • Colliding galaxies create the brightest, fastest growing black holes at their centre

  • UBC team develops greener way to produce clothing fibres

  • ‘Forever’ chemicals found in B.C. sea otters

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Climate & Environment

  • How changing your diet could help save the world

    How changing your diet could help save the world

  • UBC spin-off companies tackle climate change and drive economic growth

    UBC spin-off companies tackle climate change and drive economic growth

  • Orcas and dolphins seen hunting together for the first time

    Orcas and dolphins seen hunting together for the first time

  • Canada needs 22 million homes fast. UBC and partners are delivering solutions

    Canada needs 22 million homes fast. UBC and partners are delivering solutions

Health & Medicine

  • Stem cell engineering breakthrough paves way for next-generation living drugs

    Stem cell engineering breakthrough paves way for next-generation living drugs

  • How new front-of-package nutrition labels could reshape food choices in Canada

    How new front-of-package nutrition labels could reshape food choices in Canada

  • Is your neighbourhood playable? New website breaks it down

    Is your neighbourhood playable? New website breaks it down

  • COVID-19 vaccination significantly reduces risk to pregnant women and baby

    COVID-19 vaccination significantly reduces risk to pregnant women and baby

Science & Technology

  • AI in the law: How UBC researchers are helping to future-proof justice 

    AI in the law: How UBC researchers are helping to future-proof justice 

  • Earliest, hottest galaxy cluster gas on record could change our cosmological models

    Earliest, hottest galaxy cluster gas on record could change our cosmological models

  • The mathematics of gift wrapping 

    The mathematics of gift wrapping 

  • Spot these three Salish constellations this winter

    Spot these three Salish constellations this winter

Society & Culture

  • Why you shouldn’t sue your cousin for food poisoning, and other holiday legalities

    Why you shouldn’t sue your cousin for food poisoning, and other holiday legalities

  • 15 ways UBC researchers broke new ground in 2025 

    15 ways UBC researchers broke new ground in 2025 

  • UBC launches new training to help frontline workers respond to mental-health and substance-use crises 

    UBC launches new training to help frontline workers respond to mental-health and substance-use crises 

  • New research reveals decline in B.C. kindergarteners developmental health after pandemic

    New research reveals decline in B.C. kindergarteners developmental health after pandemic

University News

  • Record runs and last-play thrillers: 11 UBC athletic feats from 2025

    Record runs and last-play thrillers: 11 UBC athletic feats from 2025

  • UBC releases 2024 animal research statistics

    UBC releases 2024 animal research statistics

  • How AbCellera grew from a UBC lab to a global biotech company

    How AbCellera grew from a UBC lab to a global biotech company

  • Against the odds: How a former youth in care found his way from chaos to teaching as a UBC Education grad

    Against the odds: How a former youth in care found his way from chaos to teaching as a UBC Education grad

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