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Dr. Graydon Meneilly, professor and head of UBC Dept. of Medicine, has been elected Governor of the British Columbia Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the nation’s largest […]
Apr 14, 2011
The Province has announced funding of $1.7 million to support public engagement related to the upcoming HST referendum. As part of that announcement, the Province has appointed Stephen Owen a […]
Less than a month into The New York Times’ Canadian trial run of charging for online content, a survey by UBC researchers suggests that the majority of Canadians are unwilling to pay for news online, especially if free alternatives exist.
Apr 12, 2011
UBC Engineering students Peter Guan, Carol Lee, Jinting Zhu and Andy Tsai won first place in NYC Next Idea, a contest aimed at raising the city’s profile among entrepreneurial students of […]
Apr 11, 2011
Buying a new car, camera or computer? New research from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia shows that seeking advice from expert acquaintances to choose between models of merchandise might not always be good idea.
As humans face increasing distractions in their personal and professional lives, University of British Columbia researchers have discovered that people can gain greater control over their thoughts with real-time brain feedback.
Apr 8, 2011
Recent UBC Media Releases Apr. 4: UBC announces largest ever gift to Faculty of Medicine: $15M towards Centre for Brain Health Mar. 31: Some populations of Fraser River salmon more likely […]
Apr 7, 2011
The Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC) is a one-day celebration of the contributions of undergraduate scholarly inquiry/research at UBC. The conference is supported by the UBC Provost + Vice President, […]
Undergrad students in New Venture Design, a course jointly offered by UBC’s Sauder School of Business and Faculty of Applied Science, have taken home close to $20,000 in prizes at […]
UBC engineering students Andy Tsai, Carol Lee, Jinting Zhu and Peter Guan, are heading to New York City to compete in the 2011 NYC Next Idea Competition at Columbia University, […]
UBC civil engineering professor Ken Elwood, who was attending an earthquake engineering conference in Christchurch New Zealand at the time of the quake on Feb. 22, 2011, shared his expertise […]
Eugene Barsky, a science and engineering librarian at UBC Library, has won an award from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE, Engineering Libraries Division) for his work involving the […]
A collaborative research project involving UBC’s Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Departments of Chemistry and Materials Engineering has recently received $491,000 in grant funding from the Collaborative Health Research […]
Weihong Song, a professor in the UBC Dept. of Psychiatry and a member of the Brain Research Centre at UBC Hospital, has uncovered a potentially “vicious cell cycle” by which […]
Ravi Sidhu, assistant professor in the Dept. of Surgery, has been chosen as the recipient of this year’s Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) Young Educators’ Award. This award recognizes […]
Amartya Sen, the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in economics, will receive an honorary degree from UBC on April 21. Members of the UBC community are invited to attend […]
Surrey Memorial Hospital has officially become the 11th clinical academic campus of the UBC Faculty of Medicine, thanks to the start of a $512-million expansion project that was officially launched this […]
UBC researchers Patrick John Keeling and Sarah Perin Otto were granted fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in its 87th annual competition for the United States and Canada. […]
Akin to our public schools, health care and old-age security, we now require a new national agenda for families.
Apr 6, 2011 - by Paul Kershaw
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