UBC researchers surprised at the role spirituality plays - photo by iSTOCK PHOTO / Debibishop
UBC researchers surprised at the role spirituality plays – photo by iSTOCK PHOTO / Debibishop

UBC Reports | Vol. 54 | No. 2 | Feb. 7, 2008

What Makes Kids Happy?

What makes you happy?
Spirituality typically accounts for
four or five per cent of an adult’s
happiness, but new research has
found a much stronger influence
of spirituality in children.
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Conquering AIDS — if We Have a HAARTConquering AIDS — if We Have a HAART

One of the world’s leading
researchers in HIV/AIDS,
Dr. Julio Montaner, believes it is
possible to completely eliminate
the transmission of HIV in
Canada, starting in British
Columbia.
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Death by DegreesDeath by Degrees

Just how hot is too hot for fish? To find out, UBC researcher Erika Eliason is using a “fish treadmill” to put salmon through their paces.
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Going Paperless: Here’s How it’s DoneGoing Paperless:
Here’s How it’s Done

The world’s loneliest printer
just might reside in the Faculty
of Land and Food Systems’ (LFS)
undergraduate advising office.
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How Information Gets to be FreeHow Information Gets to be Free

Scholarly publishing is starting
to come full cIRcle at UBC
thanks to the development of an
online storehouse known as an
institutional repository (IR).
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Exchange Makes Campus Chemicals SustainableExchange Makes Campus
Chemicals Sustainable

Jonathan Chong and Sally
Finora don’t know each other,
but they swap fluids regularly
thanks to a new program at
UBC.
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Community Research Gets a Prison PerspectiveCommunity Research Gets a Prison Perspective

As a family physician to women
prisoners, Ruth Martin says she
longed to find a way to improve
health outcomes.
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