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UBC Feature Web Site UBC Alumni Affairs: www.alumni.ubc.ca UBC This Week is a weekly summary of UBC people in the news, recent media releases and upcoming event hightlights. UBC This […]
Jul 27, 2006
New possibilities for treating Alzheimer’s disease and dementia in Down Syndrome (DS) patients — a currently untreatable condition — have been identified in two related discoveries by a University of […]
Jul 25, 2006
UBC Feature Web Site UBC Department of Sociology: www.soci.ubc.ca UBC This Week is a weekly summary of UBC people in the news, recent media releases and upcoming event hightlights. UBC […]
Jul 20, 2006
Canada’s low-wage workers — many of them immigrants — fare much better than their U.S. counterparts due to Canada’s social policies, says Dan Zuberi, sociology professor at the University of […]
Kung fu warriors and faceless, yellow-skinned victims are two prevalent images of Asian males found in top-selling video games which tend to trade in racist stereotypes that society generally condemns […]
Jul 19, 2006
Issues ranging from Tibetan culture to concrete strengthening techniques will be explored by four new and two re-appointed investigators at the University of British Columbia who have today been confirmed […]
The genetic cause of the second most common type of dementia in those under the age of 65 has been discovered by researchers at the University of British Columbia and […]
Jul 16, 2006
Loren Rieseberg has been fascinated by sunflowers for more than two decades – photo by Martin Dee UBC Reports | Vol. 52 | No. 7 | Jul. 6, 2006 By […]
Jul 6, 2006
UBC Feature Web Site UBC Office of the President: www.president.ubc.ca UBC This Week is a weekly summary of UBC people in the news, recent media releases and upcoming event hightlights. […]
UBC Okanagan’s Deputy Vice Chancellor Dr. Doug Owram chats with a student – photo by Tim Swanky UBC Reports | Vol. 52 | No. 7 | Jul. 6, 2006 What […]
UBC President Stephen Toope – photo by Martin Dee UBC Reports | Vol. 52 | No. 7 | Jul. 6, 2006 New Faces at UBC Renewal: This month we take […]
(L-R) Kate Hennessy, Rajdeep Singh Gill, Samuel Spiegel UBC Reports | Vol. 52 | No. 7 | Jul. 6, 2006 Three UBC graduate students have been named 2006 Trudeau Scholars, […]
Wendy Roth’s research includes looking at the effect of racial classification systems on immigration – photo by Ian Tietjen UBC Reports | Vol. 52 | No. 7 | Jul. 6, […]
UBC President Stephen Toope – photo by Martin Dee UBC Reports | Vol. 52 | No. 7 | Jul. 6, 2006 What attracted you to UBC? I was attracted to […]
Law professor Shigenori Matsui – photo by Martin Dee UBC Reports | Vol. 52 | No. 7 | Jul. 6, 2006 By Lorraine Chan The state can use law to […]
Pharmaceutical Sciences professor Judy Wong – photo by Martin Dee UBC Reports | Vol. 52 | No. 7 | Jul. 6, 2006 By Hilary Thomson Tiny cellular timepieces that track […]
Michael Russello and colleagues from Yale found evidence of genetic diversity among tortoises of the Galápagos Islands UBC Reports | Vol. 52 | No. 7 | Jul. 6, 2006 By […]
UBC Reports | Vol. 52 | No. 7 | Jul. 6, 2006 By Bud Mortenson When Virginie Magnat was just 15, she received a full scholarship to study at the […]
UBC Reports | Vol. 52 | No. 7 | Jul. 6, 2006 Highlights of the UBC Media Coverage in June 2006 Compiled by Basil Waugh Eleven cousins have stomachs removed […]
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