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UBC This Week

Recent UBC Media Releases July 22: UBC researcher discovers ancient “stress hormone” in pre-historic fish July 22: UBC professor credits diversified revenue for success of world’s top airports July 15: […]

UBC students visit mining regions of Portugal and Spain

Each year, the fourth-year graduating class of mining engineering fundraise for a field trip to mining regions overseas.  At this year’s trip to Spain and Portugal, the class visited three […]

UBC residents awarded international research grants

UBC medical residents Jacqueline Hudson, Danielle MacNeil, Monica Langer and Zaheer Kanji received the Branch for International Surgery research awards for this year. The four annual $2,500 research grants are […]

Materials engineering graduate student receives ASM Award

Beth Sterling, graduate student in the Dept. of Materials Engineering, will receive a 2010 American Society for Metals (ASM) Marcus A. Grossman Young Author Award. Sterling collaborated with a group […]

UBC joins international project on indigenous peoples’ health

The UBC Faculty of Medicine is participating in a new international collaboration launched to improve the care of chronic disease among indigenous peoples.  Betty Calam, associate professor in the Dept. of […]

UBC researcher discovers ancient “stress hormone” in pre-historic fish

A University of British Columbia zoologist has discovered a new corticosteroid hormone in the sea lamprey, an eel-like fish and one of the earliest vertebrates dating back 500 million years. […]