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Marijuana and Youth Culture

Teen’s perspective on their use of marijuana is the focus of a B.C.- wide study – photo by Martin Dee UBC Reports | Vol. 51 | No. 10 | Oct. […]

UBC Students Build Space Elevator for NASA Competition

“Beam me up, Scotty!” isn’t just a science fiction fantasy, at least not according to a group of UBC engineering physics students, who have built a space elevator capable of […]

Not Your Ordinary Tool Shed

Grandview Elementary students dig the tool shed foundation in the school’s community garden – photo by Chloe Lewis UBC Reports | Vol. 51 | No. 10 | Oct. 6, 2005 […]

Technology Could Transform Urban Landscape for Disabled

The Bluetooth universal remote invented by a team of UBC engineering students – photo by Martin Dee UBC Reports | Vol. 51 | No. 10 | Oct. 6, 2005 By […]

A Better Way to Share Patient Information

UBC Reports | Vol. 51 | No. 10 | Oct. 6, 2005 $1.2 m grant establishes first Canadian inter-professional health network in B.C. By Ai Lin Choo Days after her […]

Do Library Robots Dream of Electronic Books?

UBC Reports | Vol. 51 | No. 10 | Oct. 6, 2005 Do Library Robots Dream of Electronic Books? By Lorraine Chan Canada’s first and North America’s largest library robot […]

Quarter Century Club

UBC Reports | Vol. 51 | No. 10 | Oct. 6, 2005 A total of 32 UBC faculty members were recognized at this year’s Quarter Century Club annual dinner, held […]

The Purr-fect Touch

Computer science prof. Karon MacLean and PhD student Steve Yohanan – photo by Martin Dee UBC Reports | Vol. 51 | No. 10 | Oct. 6, 2005 Robotic “cat” helps […]

Boom or Bust: Hard on Health of Mining Communities

UBC Bridge Program student Silvana Costa – photo courtesy of Min. of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources UBC Reports | Vol. 51 | No. 10 | Oct. 6, 2005 A […]

Vol. 51 | No. 10

Michael Griffin envisions students creating and sharing 3-D virtual models of ancient Rome or Greece – photo by Martin Dee UBC Reports | Vol. 51 | No. 10 | Oct. […]

Indigenous Teacher Education Planned for Okanagan

UBC Reports | Vol. 51 | No. 10 | Oct. 6, 2005 By Bud Mortenson They’ve gathered input from indigenous education experts in New Zealand, Australia, Labrador, and B.C.’s Okanagan […]

UBC Okanagan Geographer Earns Portugal’s Highest Honour

UBC Okanagan social geographer Jose Carlos Teixeira – photo by Martin Dee UBC Reports | Vol. 51 | No. 10 | Oct. 6, 2005 By Bud Mortenson “My father asked […]

Institute Makes Grad Studies More Accessible

UBC Reports | Vol. 51 | No. 10 | Oct. 6, 2005 By Bud Mortenson Indigenous studies courses will form the core of a new summer institute for graduate students […]

3-D Gaming Brings Classics to Life

Michael Griffin envisions students creating and sharing 3-D virtual models of ancient Rome or Greece – photo by Martin Dee UBC Reports | Vol. 51 | No. 10 | Oct. […]

Happy Fifth Birthday: UBC Learning Exchange

UBC Reports | Vol. 51 | No. 10 | Oct. 6, 2005 When UBC launched the Learning Exchange in 1999, 30 students signed up to do volunteer work in Downtown […]

Letter to Editor

UBC Reports | Vol. 51 | No. 10 | Oct. 6, 2005 Dear Editor, I very much enjoyed the story “UBC an Innovator in Cross-Discipline Learning” in your September 7 […]

Kudos

UBC Reports | Vol. 51 | No. 10 | Oct. 6, 2005 Members of the UBC community have been appointed to the Order of Canada Among the appointments are professors […]

In the News

UBC Reports | Vol. 51 | No. 10 | Oct. 6, 2005 Highlights of UBC Media Coverage in September 2005 Compiled by Ai Lin Choo Did Feeding Human Remains to […]