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On his Grammy nomination

I’m a scholar and a dean and it’s fun to think about these other things happening, because it’s a slightly different world

Dec 3, 2010 - by Gage Averill

UBC/CFRI project receives $7M to reduce maternal, fetal, and newborn deaths

The University of British Columbia has received a $7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. UBC researchers working at the Child & Family Research Institute will test new strategies for the monitoring, prevention, and treatment of pre-eclampsia.

Dec 3, 2010

Vol. 56 | No. 12

Dec 3, 2010

Highlights of UBC media coverage in November 2010

Can a volcano spawn salmon? The BBC, NPR, Nature News and the Globe and Mail reported on the speculation that a 2008 volcanic eruption on an Alaskan island was responsible […]

Dec 3, 2010 - by Compiled by Heather Amos

Expanded parental leave: Are children better off?

Nearly 10 years later, the national program that doubled parental leave benefits has produced little evidence of improved early childhood development.

Dec 3, 2010 - by By Basil Waugh

Reflections on academic life Trapping antimatter “tremendously exciting” for Prof. Walter Hardy

A research team called the ALPHA Collaboration, with a strong contingent of Canadians, has trapped antimatter for the first time at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), the world’s largest particle physics lab located in Geneva, Switzerland. Their discovery was published in the November 18 edition of Nature.

Dec 3, 2010 - by By Glenn Drexhage

UBC Library and the digital future

Google has done some amazing things using libraries. They partnered with libraries and then digitized scads of material, and made those available. We (the library community) could have done that.

Dec 3, 2010 - by By Glenn Drexhage

mHealth: The next big thing in global health, and at home?

The passage of another World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 provides a fitting occasion to take stock of the disease’s toll, but also the progress we’ve made in combating it.

Dec 3, 2010 - by By Richard Lester, MD, FRCPC

COMM 101 – Tweet, click, blog: A new way to learn business

COMM 101 is a social-media-meets-pedagogy experiment that is drawing strong reviews from Sauder School of Business students.

Dec 3, 2010 - by By Lorraine Chan

Bhangra delivers safe farming message

Anne-Marie Nicol is getting creative with communicating health risks to members of British Columbia’s farming community— Bollywood-style.

Dec 3, 2010 - by By Brian Lin

UBC makes mental health a priority

One of the most important factors affecting a student’s academic success is mental wellbeing. The university is developing an integrated plan to build awareness and improve access to services.

Dec 3, 2010 - by By Heather Amos

UBC pioneers child rights monitoring

Ziba Vaghri is working with the United Nations to highlight the rights of the youngest members of society.