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Soil Celebration: 2015 UN International Year of Soil

Kicking off their 2015 workshop series, the UBC Botanical Garden invites the community to learn about safe soils in the city, the importance of soil to food security in B.C. […]

Mar 5, 2015

Mine rescue team gets results with help from Ontario Mine Rescue

A student mine rescue team from the UBC department of mining finished second overall at the 2015 Intercollegiate Mine Emergency Response Development exercise at the Colorado School of Mines. The […]

Mar 5, 2015

Engineering research team receives funding for innovation in clean technology

A UBC research team led by chemical and biological engineering professor David Wilkinson received $450,000 from Western Economic Diversification Canada towards the commercialization of technologies that will support sustainability in the oil and gas […]

Mar 5, 2015

UBC Reports | March 5

UBC Reports | March 5

Mar 5, 2015

UBC This Week – 05-Mar-2015

  Recent UBC Media Releases Mar 05  UBC students launch desktop recycler that turns pop bottles into 3D printer plastic Mar 05  Q&A: Wage gap between the sexes persists  Mar […]

Mar 5, 2015

UBC students launch desktop recycler that turns pop bottles into 3D printer plastic

UBC students launch desktop recycler that turns pop bottles into 3D printer plastic

Three engineering physics students at the University of British Columbia have developed a desktop plastic recycler and extruder that turns plastic waste into the material needed for 3D printing.

Mar 5, 2015

But You Don’t Look Aboriginal – Presentation with Michelle Aleksandrovics Lovegrove and Duncan McCue

Mar 5, 2015

Q&A: Wage gap between the sexes persists

Q&A: Wage gap between the sexes persists

March 8 marks International Women’s Day. Prof. Jennifer Berdahl discusses why despite progress in some areas, there remains a persistent wage gap and a dearth of women at the top of the organizational ladder.

Mar 5, 2015

Pain relief pioneer donates $5 million for new UBC sport and exercise medicine centre

Pain relief pioneer donates $5 million for new UBC sport and exercise medicine centre

Dr. Chan Gunn, a pioneering Vancouver physician in the field of pain relief, is giving $5 million to UBC for construction of a new building devoted to exercise and sport medicine teaching, research and patient care.

Mar 4, 2015

Nicolas Feau and Richard Hamelin at the Harrison Mills poplar plantation.

UBC scientists uncover cause of tree-killing fungus

Forest scientists at UBC believe they’ve discovered the root cause of a deadly tree fungus: extra genes.

Mar 4, 2015

Coastal First Nations Dance Festival

Mar 4, 2015

Significant impact on water resources by land use change: UBC study

Significant impact on water resources by land use change: UBC study

A UBC-Chinese Academy of Sciences joint study shows that land cover plays as significant a role as climate change on the hydrology of watersheds.

Mar 3, 2015

Post-secondary leaders: Transit expansion needed to ensure campus access and boost region’s innovation economy

Post-secondary leaders: Transit expansion needed to ensure campus access and boost region’s innovation economy

The presidents of the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University are saying “yes” in the coming transportation and transit funding plebiscite.

Mar 3, 2015

2015 Leslie Schaffer lecture: Urban Forests for Urban Futures

Mar 3, 2015

Against all Odds: How Democracies Can Solve Climate Change

Mar 2, 2015