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Highlights of UBC media coverage in August 2010
Sep 10, 2010 - by Compiled by Heather Amos
A child running through grass or mixing mud pies is doing a lot more learning than first meets the eye, according to UBC researcher Susan Herrington.
Sep 10, 2010 - by By Lorraine Chan
No one living in the Pozo household expected Natalie, Joe and Lindsey, 18-year-old triplets from Portland, Oregon, to stick together once they graduated from high school.
Sep 10, 2010 - by By Heather Amos
UBC Reports asked four first-year students a few questions about their choice of university, their interests and their use of technology.
Sep 10, 2010
The tacos at Taco Bell don’t taste exactly like the ones back home in the San Francisco Bay Area. But Brendan Pickering isn’t going to quibble when everything else about living in B.C. and studying at UBC’s Okanagan campus is “fantastic.”
UBC prof seeks corporate accountability.
Sep 10, 2010 - by By Simmi Puri, Faculty of Law
Students research how to make Vancouver a leader in sustainability.
Sep 10, 2010 - by By Ann Campbell and Madelen Ortega, UBC Sustainability Initiative
On June 1, members of the Association of Canadian Deans of Education (ACDE) signed an Accord on Indigenous Education. This accord was developed to create a respectful and inclusive education curriculum that reflects the needs of Aboriginal people.
Faculty and staff at UBC’s Okanagan campus have designed a new foundational mathematics course that uses an Aboriginal perspective in the application of basic math concepts.
Sep 10, 2010 - by By Jody Jacob
Asst. Prof. Eric Lagally and PhD students Tony Yang and Eric Ouellet have created a fun way to teach younger students and the general public about microfluidics using Jell-O®
Partners such as the Terrace Economic Development Agency and the Campbell River Chamber of Commerce helped broker relationships in their respective regions.
Sep 10, 2010 - by By Glenn Drexage, UBC Library
What Canadian experiences have influenced the perspectives of students entering university this year?
Open content and mobile computing are two technological trends which are about to have a very big influence in higher education.
Sep 10, 2010 - by By Michael Wong, Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology
The lecture halls might look the same, but parents of incoming first-year students may not recognize Physics 101.
I want the players to have pride in the team, enjoy what they’re doing and believe in what’s happening.
Here is a generation that has mostly come to accept high-speed multimedia global communication as a given.
Sep 10, 2010 - by By Gisele Baxter
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