Archives by date

You are browsing the site archives by date.

Lessons from Walter Mitty: when is daydreaming a good thing?

Lessons from Walter Mitty: when is daydreaming a good thing?

As the remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is about to debut on Christmas Day, a UBC researcher talks about how daydreaming can be good for your brain.

Dec 19, 2013

UBC This Week 19-Dec-2013

  Recent UBC Media Releases Dec 20 UBC experts on SCOC’s landmark ruling on anti-prostitution laws Dec 19 Scientific data lost at alarming rate Dec 19 UBC experts for comment […]

Dec 19, 2013

2014 Dialogues on our City’s Future

The University Women’s Club of Vancouver, in collaboration with UBC School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), present the 2014 Dialogues on our City’s Future. The event is moderated by […]

Dec 19, 2013

Inaugural recipients announced: Aboriginal audio digitization and preservation program

Tsawwassen First Nation and the Upper St’át’imc Language, Culture, and Education Society are the inaugural recipients of the Aboriginal Audio Digitization and Preservation Program (AADPP). The AADPP, a pilot initiative […]

Dec 19, 2013

Collaborative cataloguing project wins CLIR grant

UBC Library is part of a collaboration that has been awarded a 2013 Cataloguing Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant worth $183,500 to support the project “Discovering Modern China: University […]

Dec 19, 2013

Nursing professor elected to International Organization for Science and Technology

Nursing Associate Professor Bernie Garrett has been elected as the North American representative to the International Organization for Science and Technology Education (IOSTE). The IOSTE was established in 1979 to […]

Dec 19, 2013

Tech pioneer S-FRAME donates software solutions, equips Engineering lab

The new S-FRAME Software Laboratory opened on UBC’s Okanagan campus on December 12 in the Engineering, Management and Education building. S-FRAME Software Inc. provided a donation of structural engineering software, […]

Dec 19, 2013

UBC immunologist honoured with B.C. women in science award

UBC immunologist Pauline Johnson has been recognized with a 2013 Community Leadership and Excellence Award by the Minerva Foundation for B.C. Women, a non-profit dedicated to promoting women and leadership […]

Dec 19, 2013

UBC lead on CERN-ATLAS project to head Physics and Astronomy

Colin Gay, UBC’s lead researcher on the ATLAS project – one of two large detectors at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN responsible for discovering the Higgs boson – has […]

Dec 19, 2013

CCS names research by Cancer Prevention Centre one of top research stories of 2013

Research by Faculty of Medicine professor Dr. Carolyn Gotay and the Cancer Prevention Centre team on mapping the obesity problem in Canada was named one of the top research stories […]

Dec 19, 2013

SCARP comes out as top Canadian planning school in citations analysis

UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) has placed as the top Canadian planning institution based on a preliminary analysis of citation activity. The preliminary analysis, conducted by Professor […]

Dec 19, 2013

Computer Science prof named one of Forty Under 40 by BIV

Computer Science assistant professor and chief technology officer/co-founder of Coho Data Andrew Warfield has been named as one of Forty Under 40 by Business in Vancouver magazine. Coho Data has […]

Dec 19, 2013

UBC alumnus wins NYC prize for Macy’s Christmas windows

DDI Magazine has named Macy’s Herald Square in New York City as the platinum award winner in the annual Winning Windows Manhattan holiday retail window competition. Created by UBC alumnus […]

Dec 19, 2013

UBC experts on SCC’s landmark ruling on anti-prostitution laws

UBC experts on SCC’s landmark ruling on anti-prostitution laws

The Supreme Court of Canada will announce its decision in Bedford v. Canada today. UBC experts, some of whom are involved in the case, are available to comment.

Dec 19, 2013

Researchers discover possible secret to superconductivity

Researchers discover possible secret to superconductivity

UBC researchers have discovered a prevalent electronic state that controls the behaviour of high-temperature superconducting copper-oxide ceramics.

Dec 19, 2013

The Road to the OED: A History of English-Language Dictionaries exhibition

The Road to the OED: A History of English-Language Dictionaries exhibition Thu Nov 7 – Tue Dec 24 Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 1961 East Mall Learn more about the […]

Dec 19, 2013

The Road to the OED: A History of English-Language Dictionaries exhibition

Dec 19, 2013

Scientific data lost at alarming rate

Scientific data lost at alarming rate

Eighty per cent of scientific data are lost within two decades, according to a new UBC study that tracks the accessibility of data over time.

Dec 19, 2013

UBC experts for comment on federal report about Enbridge Northern Gateway

UBC experts for comment on federal report about Enbridge Northern Gateway

The federal review panel released its environmental report and recommendations about the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and UBC experts are available to comment.

Dec 19, 2013