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What should I do on Father’s Day?

What should I do on Father’s Day?

Fathers today have less overall time to spend with their children, so Father’s Day can be spent just hanging out together.

Jun 12, 2013

Prof. discusses new arthritis drugs

Prof. discusses new arthritis drugs

Health economist Aslam Anis on the value of expensive new class of medicines

Jun 12, 2013

Prof. Dina Al-Kassim explores the evolution of a complaint culture. Don Erhardt Photograph

The rise of the rant

Prof. Dina Al-Kassim explores the evolution of a complaint culture. From lukewarm lattes to political manifestos, she looks at what people complain about – and what public griping can tell us about society.

Jun 12, 2013 - by Basil Waugh

Understanding dogs

Psychology prof. and dog expert Stanley Coren at the 2013 Public Salon

Jun 12, 2013

New imaging technique holds promise for speeding MS research

New imaging technique holds promise for speeding MS research

UBC researchers have developed a MRI technique to detect multiple sclerosis.

Jun 12, 2013

Personalized Medicine and Individualized Drug Delivery

Personalized Medicine and Individualized Drug Delivery June 11 – 14 Pharmaceutical Sciences Building, 2405 Wesbrook Mall The conference will concern all aspects of personalized medicine and its anticipated impact on […]

Jun 12, 2013

Four T-Birds flying with Canada

Four T-Birds flying with Canada

Four current and former UBC Thunderbirds will be playing for the Canadian women’s national volleyball team, which is set to take part in three international events this summer.

Jun 11, 2013

Café Neuroéthique: Advances in Imaging Research for Brain Injury and Consciousness

Café Neuroéthique: Advances in Imaging Research for Brain Injury and Consciousness 7 – 9 p.m. 500 Granville Street A Public Discussion: Medical and ethical challenges of imaging for traumatic brain […]

Jun 11, 2013

Retailers should referee customer conflict

Retailers should referee customer conflict

A new UBC study says retailers should consider admonishing queue jumpers and thoughtless store browsers to ease aggression between shoppers.

Jun 11, 2013

Steve Morgan

Medically necessary prescription drugs should be covered

Medically necessary prescription drugs should be covered Assoc. Prof. Steve Morgan argues for universal coverage of prescription drugs. Read more…

Jun 10, 2013

Don Bakker. Photo by Martin Dee.

Is war with North Korea a possibility?

The recent military threats were rhetoric and it’s an annual thing (caused by joint U.S and South Korea war maneuvers) so things will quiet down now until next March.

Jun 10, 2013

UBC Building Operations fleet manager Adam McCluskey. Photo by Martin Dee

Electrifying campus drivers

New charging stations pump up UBC’s fleet of electric cars and give drivers more choices

Jun 10, 2013 - by By Salina Marshall

Sustainability: Are we the monster?

Prof. John Robinson’s TEDx Stanley Park talk on sustainability given Spring 2013

Jun 10, 2013

SONGFIRE Festival: VISI Emerging Artist Series

SONGFIRE Festival: VISI Emerging Artist Series 8 – 10 p.m. Barnett Hall, UBC School of Music, 6361 Memorial Rd. For its inaugural year, the Contemporary Performance Studies participants present an […]

Jun 10, 2013

Canada’s space telescope turns 10

Canada’s space telescope turns 10

The 10th anniversary of Canada’s first space telescope could have you doing more than just wishing upon a star – you could be taking 100,000 snapshots of it – for free.

Jun 7, 2013 - by Corey Allen

UBC This Week 07-Jun-2013

  Recent UBC Media Releases Jun 5 Strength in numbers when resisting forbidden fruit Jun 3 Prof to demonstrate Annacis pilot reactor that removes phosphorus from wastewater Jun 3 Integrated UBC […]

Jun 7, 2013

Sneak peek at Upcycled Urbanism

Readers of The Tyee had a sneak peek at the upcoming public space project “Upcycled Urbanism”. “Upcycled” invites people of all backgrounds to re-imagine Vancouver’s public spaces using blocks made […]

Jun 7, 2013

Milton K. Wong annual lecture revisits democracy

Noted U.S. political philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain will deliver the 2013 Milton K. Wong Lecture on June 13 at the Chan Centre, drawing on the examples of the U.S. and […]

Jun 7, 2013

Eric Mazur: The Tyranny of the Lecture

Eric Mazur, the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University and Area Dean of Applied Physics, will be at UBC on June 7 to deliver a talk, […]

Jun 7, 2013

Aboriginal (Un)history Month at UBC Library

UBC Library celebrates Aboriginal scholarship, creativity and intellectual traditions with its second annual Aboriginal (Un)History Month, which takes place during June. (Un)History month activities introduce ways that UBC Indigenous scholars […]

Jun 7, 2013