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UBC This Week

Upcoming Event Highlights Aug. 27: Listen to the Whispers: Ovarian Cancer Awareness Aug. 31: UBC Freshmen Reception Sept. 1: UBC Farm Wednesday Market Sept. 2: WordPress Basics I Find out […]

Aug 26, 2010

UBC profs present in Sept. 23 Public Salon

Prof. Max Cynader, Director of Brain Research Centre and Prof. Bill Rees, Community and Regional Planning and developer of the ecological footprint concept, will participate in the Sept. 23rd Public […]

Aug 26, 2010

Institute of Asian Research launches Asia Pacific Memo

The Institute of Asian Research (IAR) at UBC has launched Asia Pacific Memo, a new online publication on contemporary Asia. The current feature story is an IAR seven-part video interview […]

Aug 26, 2010

UBC Library launches Abacus

UBC Library in partnership with Simon Fraser University, the University of Victoria and the University of Northern British Columbia has launched Abacus, a platform to access research data from a […]

Aug 26, 2010

UBC undergraduate researchers shine at poster competition

Seven UBC students were among the undergraduates recognized for their research at the 2010 Rising Stars of Research (RSR) national undergraduate research poster competition on Aug. 19.  Showcasing their work […]

Aug 26, 2010

UBC prof launches new medical textbook on understanding the heart

Assoc. Prof. Carol-Ann Courneya, UBC Faculty of Medicine, together with Dr. Michael Parker, Harvard University, recently launched a new textbook Cardiovascular Physiology: A Clinical Approach, to be used for the […]

Aug 26, 2010

New Nike soccer ball tested by UBC Aerolab

The new Nike Total 90 Tracer soccer ball was tested in the wind tunnels of UBC’s Aerolab.  The UBC-tested ball, found to be the most aerodynamically efficient ball in the […]

Aug 26, 2010

UBC study on WEIRD societies featured in NY Times

A study on what UBC researchers call Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) societies was in yesterday’s global edition of the New York Times.  Psychology and Economics Prof. Joe […]

Aug 26, 2010

World ranking puts UBC at 36

The University of British Columbia ranks 36th in the recently released 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), prepared by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. UBC has consistently been ranked at […]

Aug 26, 2010

Fat serves as cells’ built-in pH sensor: UBC research

A specific type of fat present in cell membranes also serves as a cellular pH sensor, a team of University of British Columbia researchers has discovered.

Aug 26, 2010