First Canadian study of gender-affirming surgery highlights a long and frustrating journey for transgender patients
Access to gender-affirming surgery has improved in British Columbia over the past couple years, but transgender people needing to access surgery still face complex and often unclear pathways.
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The effect of out-of-town buyers on Vancouver home prices
Vancouver has attracted a flurry of out-of-town homebuyers, but little is known about their impact on real estate prices.
Arts and Humanities
The future of journalism lies in collaboration
UBC associate professor Peter Klein and recent Asper visiting professor Sandra Bartlett discuss the importance of collaborations between journalists at different news organizations in an increasingly challenging media landscape.
Science, Health and Technology
Herbivores help protect ecosystems from climate change
Plant-eating critters are the key ingredient to helping ecosystems survive global warming, finds new UBC research that offers some hope for a defence strategy against climate change.
University News
Future health professionals receive new training to better care for Indigenous people
Students from 11 of UBC’s health-related programs will come together for the first time on Thursday for a new learning experience designed to help them better serve Indigenous people.
UBC researchers develop earthquake-resistant concrete
A new seismic-resistant, fibre-reinforced concrete developed at the University of British Columbia will see its first real-life application this fall as part of the seismic retrofit of a Vancouver elementary school.
A lesson for Canada: Quebec pharmacare system creates winners and losers
Quebec spends $200 more per person than the rest of Canada to provide prescription drug coverage to everyone in the province, finds new research that could inform plans for a nationwide universal drug plan.
Lower education and income linked to higher suicide risks for gay and bisexual men
Gay and bisexual men making less than $30,000 a year and without a university degree have more than five times the odds of attempting suicide compared with their more advantaged peers, according to new research from
- CBC ‐ More UBC trees get axed to make way for market housing
- Vancouver Sun ‐ Promise of universal public education unfulfilled for students with special needs
- AFP ‐ Activists vow ‘resistance’ as courts to rule on Canada pipeline
- Smithsonian Magazine ‐ Declassified records show U.S. supported Indonesia massacre
- TVO ‐ First Nation, first surgeon
- Inverse ‐ Psychedelic drugs had surprising effect on crime in a new study
- Times Higher Education ‐ Modern graduates: citizens of the world or citizens of nowhere?
- Canadian Press ‐ UBC health students get training to help Indigenous patients
- The Tyee ‐ Catalonia walks the independence tightrope
- Canadian Press ‐ Woman plagued by bedbugs on airplane not surprising: Expert
- Metro News ‐ Want healthier kids? UBC docs prescribe nature’s Rx
- Surrey Now Leader ‐ East Clayton’s history from prof who helped design it
- Kelowna Daily Courier ‐ Pot dispensaries may be illegal, but they work well: Study
- Vice ‐ How long it takes to get gender-affirming surgery across Canada
- Sing Tao Calgary ‐ Foreign buyers impact on Vancouver housing market
- Global ‐ North Korea uses video to ‘humanize’ their capital city
- Kelowna Daily Courier ‐ Lifestyle program to be launched Friday
- BNN ‐ Why Canadian Amazon HQ2 could rest on Ontario’s shoulders
- The Conversation ‐ A call to arms for public interest journalism in Canada
- Global ‐ Where recreational weed should be sold once it’s legalized
- Castanet ‐ Getting spiked for charity
- Vancouver Sun ‐ Layers of Influence: Unfolding Cloth Across Cultures
- Future health professionals receive new training to better care for Indigenous people
- First Canadian study of gender-affirming surgery highlights a long and frustrating journey for transgender patients
- Herbivores help protect ecosystems from climate change
- UBC researchers develop earthquake-resistant concrete
- A lesson for Canada: Quebec pharmacare system creates winners and losers
- Lower education and income linked to higher suicide risks for gay and bisexual men
- Azerbaijani Journalist Khadija Ismayilova Awarded 2017 Allard Prize for International Integrity
- Why fundraising appeals fall flat with some would-be donors
- New tool maps nature across Vancouver to boost mental health
- Some marine species more vulnerable to climate change than others
- Going diving in the tropics? Don’t eat the reef fish!
- Early guidance can help future moms fight fear of childbirth
- Health care, education key to keeping women out of prison
- You’re not alone in feeling alone
- Small-scale fisheries have big impact on oceans
- New UBC research suggests bird songs isolate species
- Running group helps half its graduates quit smoking
- A full house for Prime Minister Trudeau’s Town Hall at UBC Okanagan
- New Canadian telescope will map largest volume of space ever surveyed
- Perfect mannequins a turnoff for some consumers
- U.S. investors shun Quebec firms: UBC study
- New osteoporosis treatment uses traditional Chinese herb to prevent bone loss
- Mixed reality gives neuroanatomy lessons a boost
- Canadian children’s nutrition suffers during school hours
- Solving the housing crunch for Vancouver’s smallest residents
- Warmer waters from climate change will leave fish shrinking, gasping for air
- Algorithms that can sketch, recreate 3D shapes
- UBC Library acquires first known account of British Columbia by an English woman
- Breakthrough software teaches computer characters to walk, run, even play soccer
- Hostage situation or harmony? Researchers rethink symbiosis
- UBC research unearths Canadian sapphires fit for a queen
- Trees can make or break city weather
- Using money to buy time linked to increased happiness
- Ga-ga, goo-goo, why a baby likes you
- $6-million donation creates largest ever endowed scholarship at UBC
- Programs that teach emotional intelligence in schools have lasting impact
- Serious pain afflicts a third of nursing home residents in last six months of life
- Ten million tonnes of fish wasted every year despite declining fish stocks
- Alix Ohlin named new chair of creative writing program
- When the rubber hits the road: Recycled tires create stronger concrete
- Subsidies promote overfishing and hurt small-scale fishers worldwide
- How the popularity of sea cucumbers is threatening coastal communities
- Following in the footsteps of their Métis ancestors
- New West cop learns how to be a stress detective
- Parents’ reasons for not vaccinating children influence public attitudes toward them
- Researchers uncover potential risks of common MS treatment
- Solving one of nature’s great puzzles: what drives the accelerating expansion of the universe?
- Believing a cocktail contains an energy drink makes you feel more drunk
- Brain injury causes impulse control problems in rats: study
- Red light, green light invention prevents work interruptions
- Computer scientists put some skin in the game of visual effects
- New coral bleaching database to help predict fate of global reefs
- Medical history reveals multiple sclerosis begins to impact patients sooner
- Making bins more convenient boosts recycling and composting rates
- Drug created from malaria parasite shows promise as bladder cancer treatment
- UBC researcher sees future for flax and hemp as particleboard alternative
- Parents and kids learn English better together
- UBC invention uses bacteria to purify water
- ‘Whale breath’ reveals bacteria threatening endangered killer whales
- Reconciliation Pole installed on UBC Vancouver campus
- Innovative software converts Wi-Fi data into energy savings
- Researchers identify genes that give cannabis its flavour
- Genetics reveal mysteries of hard-to-treat bacterial infection in cystic fibrosis
- Inactive teens develop lazy bones, study finds
- Dairy farmers should rethink a cow’s curfew, says UBC researchers
- How birthplace and education influence marriage choices in China
- Fish evolve by playing it safe
- FNHA and UBC establish chair to prevent cancer and improve wellbeing
- New flexible sensor holds potential for foldable touch screens
- Scotiabank funds $2-million cybersecurity and financial data initiative at UBC
- Organic is only one ingredient in recipe for sustainable food future
- Tech ventures get boost from UBC innovation programs
- Controversial “liberation therapy” fails to treat multiple sclerosis: study
- Survival instinct, not family bonds, weave massive spider colonies together
- Sharing extra spots could ease West End parking woes
- UBC researchers want to know how people who buy and sell sex communicate with each other
- Universal public coverage of essential medicines would improve access, save billions
- Study sheds light on B.C. youths’ experiences with mental health services
- Universities establish joint centre to use data for social good in Cascadia region
- Gay, lesbian and bisexual teens half as likely to play sports as straight youth
- Vancouver “teardown index” predicts which houses are at risk
- ‘The little MOOC that could’: Online course promotes Indigenous ways of knowing
- UBC study links slot-machine addiction to immersion in the game
- Yeast found in babies’ guts increases risk of asthma
- International students’ concept of “home” shapes post-graduation plans
- Tiny magnetic implant offers new drug delivery method
- Older Canadians skip meds due to cost, putting them at risk for complications
- Don’t be so hard on yourself! UBC study on first-year student stress
- Lung cancer patients with anxiety, depression die sooner: study
- One in five adults secretly access their friends’ Facebook accounts
- Anthropologists search NASA data for migration and land use patterns in the Himalayas
- HIV therapy could be contributing to syphilis outbreak
- UBC reinstates John Furlong as keynote speaker
- Statement on decision regarding John Furlong speaking engagement
- UBC discovery opens up new treatments for problem gamblers
- Global climate target could net additional six million tons of fish annually
- Get better customer service by choosing your words wisely
- High altitudes hamper hummingbirds’ ability to manoeuvre: UBC research
- A traditional Japanese art inspires a futuristic innovation: brain ‘organoids’
- UBC researchers develop earthquake-resistant concrete
- Structure of UBC’s tall wood building now complete
- Canadians and Americans are more similar than assumed
- First Canadian study of gender-affirming surgery highlights a long and frustrating journey for transgender patients
- Canada’s top party schools 2017
- UBC confirms student died in crane fall
- New tool maps nature across Vancouver to boost mental health
- Majority rule: why conformity can actually be a good thing
- Fatality at UBC
- Some marine species more vulnerable to climate change than others
Opinions
Police should not pose as journalists – it puts us at risk
Police shouldn’t pose as journalists even for crimefighting purposes as it creates risks for journalists, says UBC journalism professor Peter W. Klein in an op-ed for the Globe and Mail.
Expert Spotlight
UBC experts on B.C. marijuana legalization framework
Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth has outlined B.C’s next steps in the legalization of recreational marijuana. UBC experts are available to comment.
UBC Athletics
Thunderbirds take on Heat in season opener
In a battle of the sister schools, the UBC Thunderbirds will take on the UBCO Heat in Kelowna to begin their 2017-18 Canada West seasons.
Feature Video
Master of Land and Water Systems
The Master of Land and Water Systems prepares students to meet the emerging global concerns of water resource conservation.
UBC Events
The Three Stages of Environmentalism
- Saturday October 21, 2017 at 7:30 p.m.
- Chan Centre
