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The UBC TREAD robot team will compete in the NASA Regolith Excavator Centennial Challenge at Ames Research Air Force Base in Mountain View, California on Oct. 17. The robot will […]
Oct 15, 2009
Liisa Holsti, assistant professor at the UBC Dept. of Occupational Science and Occupational, and clinician scientist with the Child and Family Research Institute (CFRI), has assumed a new role as […]
Dr. Gavin Stuart has been appointed to the new role of Vice Provost Health and Ted Dodds to the new position of Vice Provost Information Technology. Stuart was recently re-appointed […]
Three UBC health researchers are part of five new national research projects designed to help further and address the H1N1 flu virus that were announced Oct. 14 by the Canadian […]
A robot designed by UBC students will be shoveling moon dust at an international robotics competition next week, vying for a $500,000 prize and the opportunity to contribute to NASA’s future space exploration projects.
Oct 9, 2009
UBC This Week is a weekly summary of UBC people in the news, recent media releases and upcoming event highlights. UBC This Week past issues are also available on-line.
Oct 8, 2009
As Canada prepares to host the world’s best, Vancouver 2010 and The Globe and Mail are partnering on a unique project inviting the public to flex their intellect via podcasts by some of the country’s best minds on topics related to the 2010 Winter Games.
UBC doctoral candidate Laura Turner was awarded a Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) Award at the 24th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA) in Barcelona. The award is […]
A memorial celebration will be held for Abraham Jedidiah Rogatnick, former UBC professor of architecture. In 1959 he initiated a Study Abroad Program that provides students with learning experiences in […]
The 2009 Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) features 11 ?lms by UBC film students, alumni and faculty. UBC alumnus David Hauka wrote and directed his thesis documentary Certainty while completing […]
Prof. Sam Aparicio of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Canada Research Chair in Molecular Oncology, and Prof. of Medical Genetics Marco Marra, create landmark genome that illuminates cancer development and offers new hope for fighting the disease.
Major shifts in fisheries distribution due to climate change will affect food security in tropical regions most adversely, according to a study led by the Sea Around Us Project at UBC.
UBC welcomed proposed provincial legislation that would clarify the right of BC post-secondary institutions to regulate parking on their campuses.
Oct 7, 2009
The UBC Design Centre for Sustainability has been working with the City of North Vancouver to prepare a 100 Year Sustainability Vision, and the city has recently won the Community […]
A van that circled Vancouver streets frequented by sex trade workers made them feel safer and reduced their likelihood of being attacked, according to a UBC study.
Oct 6, 2009
A team of University of British Columbia microbiologists has identified a key defence mechanism used by the immune system against Listeria with strong implications for the future development of vaccines. […]
Oct 5, 2009
The UBC Graduate School of Journalism is welcoming a former editor of the Los Angeles Times as the Canwest Visiting Professor for 2009-2010.
Oct 2, 2009
UBC This Week is a weekly summary of UBC people in the news, recent media releases and upcoming event highlights. UBC This Week past issues are also available on-line. Sign […]
Oct 1, 2009
While thoughts may turn to zombies, vampires and other ghoulish creatures as Hallowe’en approaches, few think of adding “the law” into the mix.
Oct 1, 2009 - by By Sean Sullivan
Finding out that you share the same birthday, hometown or even first name with another stranger can be a great icebreaker in social situations.
Oct 1, 2009 - by By Derek Moscato
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