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Vol. 53 | No. 11

Prof. Roland Stull is using interactive activities to help his students better grasp scientific concepts behind storms – photo by Martin Dee UBC Reports | Vol. 53 | No. 11 […]

In the News

UBC Reports | Vol. 53 | No. 11 | Nov. 1, 2007 Highlights of UBC Media Coverage in October 2007 Compiled by Basil Waugh UBC Student Behind Burma Facebook Group […]

The Lost Forests of Afghanistan

You can’t save the trees unless you understand the people, says Forestry Assoc. Prof. Gary Bull – photo by Martin Dee UBC Reports | Vol. 53 | No. 11 | […]

CWSEI Department Updates

UBC Reports | Vol. 53 | No. 11 | Nov. 1, 2007 Life Sciences (Depts. of Zoology, Botany, and Microbiology & Immunology) Physics and Astronomy Chemistry Statistics Computer Science Earth […]

Let Your Fingers Do the Singing

Prof. Bob Pritchard and Prof. Sidney Fels have created one of the few systems in the world that translates hand gestures to digitally synthesized speech and song – photo by […]

Fishing for Trouble

Fisheries economist Rashid Sumaila categorizes subsidies as “the good, the bad and the ugly” – photo by Martin Dee UBC Reports | Vol. 53 | No. 11 | Nov. 1, […]

A Crime Called Genocide

Grieving women pass by the stone marker at the Potocari memorial site for victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in which 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were massacred by […]

UBC Climate Change Experts Help Create First Carbon Neutral Airline

UBC Reports | Vol. 53 | No. 11 | Nov. 1, 2007 By Basil Waugh Offsetters Climate Neutral Society, founded by two UBC professors, is helping the airline industry to […]

Winds of Classroom Change

Prof. Roland Stull is using interactive activities to help his students better grasp scientific concepts behind storms – photo by Martin Dee UBC Reports | Vol. 53 | No. 11 […]

Car Sharing Comes to UBC Students

UBC’s new car-sharing program puts UBC student Steve Jones behind the wheel of 126 vehicles around Vancouver – photo by Martin Dee UBC Reports | Vol. 53 | No. 11 […]

UN Partners with UBC to Create Online Guide to Healthy Cities

A senior United Nations official will be at UBC today to announce a partnership that will create the UBC/UN-Habitat Archives, the world’s most complete online repository of best practices for […]

UBC Leads Effort to Promote Sustainable Use of Marine Life in Traditional Chinese Medicine

The sustainable use of marine species is the focus of a new Hong Kong group led by the University of British Columbia in partnership with traditional Chinese medicine merchants, conservation […]

UBC This Week | Nov. 1, 2007

UBC Feature Web Site The Carl Wieman Science Initiative: www.cwsei.ubc.ca UBC This Week is a weekly summary of UBC people in the news, recent media releases and upcoming event highlights. […]