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UBC Reports – December 5, 2013

UBC Reports – December 5, 2013

Failure to add value to resource wealth chains Canada to its colonial past

Failure to add value to resource wealth chains Canada to its colonial past

Failure to add value to resource wealth chains Canada to its colonial past A modernization of Canada’s economy is needed to support and sustain the country’s resources, write UBC researchers […]

UBC This Week 05-Dec-2013

  Recent UBC Media Releases Dec 5 Dehorning Daisy? Better make it painless Dec 4 Expert on Thailand’s crisis and national holiday Dec 4 Dyslexia’s deadly toll Upcoming Event Highlights […]

Let Swirls Christmas Bakeshop do the baking this holiday season

The Swirls Christmas Bakeshop is offering Christmas treats for the holiday season. Place an order by Dec. 12 and last day for pick-up is Dec. 20. To view this year’s […]

Physics and Astronomy annual Faraday Science Show

Can your body act as a battery, or even be part of a music instrument? When we smell a Christmas turkey, what are we really smelling? These questions and more […]

UBC culinary instructor to launch culinary memoir

UBC culinary instructor and Vancouver-based French chef Eric Arrouzé will launch his first book Child to Chef: A Gourmand in Training. This book is the first in a series tracing […]

Applied Science: support single parents

The Faculty of Applied Science invites the community to participate in the Seasonal Hamper program which has helped support single parent students for the past four years during the holidays. […]

Subscribe to UBC Reports by Dec. 13 and win $160 culinary tour

On Dec. 16, UBC News will launch its seventh annual Next Big Thing package of stories featuring UBC experts describing novel ideas that are bound to advance research and change […]

UBC student wins TestDRIVE competition

PhD candidate Daniel Mang has won the AUTO21 TestDRIVE national automotive competition, receiving a $10,000 scholarship for his work on anti-whiplash car seats. His adaptive car seat can reduce whiplash […]

Energy Aware's Kickstarter campaign funds energy-saving sensor

Neurio is a sensor made by Energy Aware that tracks the use of power by appliances in the home. The company raised nearly $267,373 through Kickstarter to help bring the […]

Quake Global enables hands-on education in M2M technology

Students at UBC will now be able to get hands-on experience in developing satellite machine-to-machine (M2M) applications, thanks to a donation from Quake Global, Inc., a leading manufacturer of M2M […]

UBC profs receive funding to develop blood test for COPD lung attacks

Computer Science professor Raymond Ng, together with Dr. Don Sin, professor of Medicine at UBC, received $7.2 million of funding to develop a blood test for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease […]

Government of Canada and IBM announce support for Vancouver Institute for Visual Analytics

A federal investment of $513,141 will help Vancouver Institute for Visual Analytics (VIVA), a partnership between UBC, Simon Fraser University (SFU) and industry establish the Visual Analytics Research and Instructional […]

Two faculty members share in CIHR Knowledge Translation Award

Two faculty members – Jim Wright, professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and Stuart MacLeod, professor in the Department of Pediatrics – were invited to Ottawa’s Rideau […]

UBC makes top 10 public B.C. ‘dream employers’

UBC made the grade as a “dream employer” on a new survey conducted by Insights West on behalf of Miles Employment Group and Business In Vancouver. Thirty-nine per cent of […]

Venezuelan Christmas Carols

Venezuelan Christmas Carols Thu Dec 5 2013, 8 PM – 9:30 PM St. John’s College Enjoy some lively Venezuelan Christmas Carols by Los Parranderos de Vancouver!

Venezuelan Christmas Carols