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Dec 17, 2013
For people in poverty, remembering better times – such as past success – improves brain functioning and increases their willingness to seek help from crucial aid services.
UBC News releases its seventh annual package of stories featuring UBC experts describing advances that are bound to change our world.
Dec 16, 2013
UBC’s Wendy Hall offers tips on how to get your kids back to a regular sleep schedule after the holidays.
The UBC Sauder School of Business put together a clever parody of Martin Scorsese’s latest The Wolf of Wall Street.
Statscan’s cuts have forced us to see Canada through a U.S. lens Statistics Canada needs to restart its reporting of national marriage and divorce rates, argues UBC economist Marina Adshade. […]
The UBC Public Affairs office has published the first of 10 story ideas featuring UBC researchers describing advances that are bound to change our world in 2014 and beyond.
A UBC doctoral student is the subject of a new book about young First Nations people. Lyana Patrick, of the Stellat’en First Nation, is a PhD student in community and […]
Legal scholar Efrat Arbel on Canada’s troubled treatment of refugees and the Canadian constitution.
A simple new probiotic intervention may help babies fight off the harmful effects of malnutrition and preserve millions of lives.
Dec 13, 2013 - by Corey Allen
A note on the Next Big Thing from guest editors David Ng and Paul Cubbon.
Dec 13, 2013
UBC’s Faculty of Medicine celebrated the groundbreaking of the new Learning and Development Centre at the University Hospital of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in Prince George.
Holiday Doubles Mixer Fri Dec 13 2013, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM UBC Tennis Centre Come join the UBC Tennis Centre Staff for a fun night of non-stop doubles action […]
UBC Reports – December 12, 2013
Dec 12, 2013
Astrophysicist Kris Sigurdson explains dark energy, one of the great mysteries of the universe.
Recent UBC Media Releases Dec 12 Gift giving 101: Happiness expert on the ‘psychology of giving’ Dec 12 Canadian RX atlas maps billions in savings – for now Dec […]
Contributing to UBC’s United Way fundraising campaign helps prevent childhood poverty, bullying and senior isolation. UBC staff and faculty who make a regular payroll or monthly credit card donation before […]
Community members are encouraged to drop off Christmas trees for recycling at the UBC Botanical Garden where they will be chipped into mulch and used on garden trails (decorations must […]
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