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UBC statistician John Petkau’s research seeks to improve the evaluation of multiple sclerosis (MS) treatments.

Apr 23, 2015

Scientists pinpoint brain-swelling mechanism

Discovery paves way for treatments to prevent brain damage or death following head trauma A team of UBC researchers has made a significant discovery uncovering the cause of brain swelling […]

Apr 23, 2015

Scientists pinpoint brain-swelling mechanism

Scientists pinpoint brain-swelling mechanism

A team of UBC researchers has made a significant discovery uncovering the cause of brain swelling after trauma to the head.

Apr 23, 2015

UBC students demonstrate remote-control water-jet boats

UBC students demonstrate remote-control water-jet boats

University of British Columbia students have spent the past two weeks designing, building, and testing water-jet powered vehicles operated by remote control. Today, they will find out who has designed the fastest boat of them all.

Apr 22, 2015

Why are so many new teachers burning out?

Why are so many new teachers burning out?

As the school year winds down, the anticipation of summer break is a welcome respite for many elementary and high school teachers.

Apr 22, 2015

UBC study finds ‘nurse navigators’ play vital role in senior care

UBC study finds ‘nurse navigators’ play vital role in senior care

Retirement can be a big adjustment for someone who has spent his or her whole life working and keeping busy. Many of these newly retired professionals want to keep contributing to their community but aren’t sure how.

Apr 21, 2015

Spring surprise: UBC expert on the effects of this year’s early spring

Spring surprise: UBC expert on the effects of this year’s early spring

While most of Canada spent February and March buried under snowdrifts, the west coast has been enjoying cherry blossoms and balmy breezes for weeks.

Apr 21, 2015

How “time is money” thinking can hurt the environment: UBC research

How “time is money” thinking can hurt the environment: UBC research

Thinking “time is money” can be a barrier for people to act in environmentally friendly ways, even for tasks like recycling that take mere seconds, according to UBC research.

Apr 21, 2015

Art project helps veterans cope with PTSD

Art project helps veterans cope with PTSD

Two wood caskets lie on the floor of the Foster Eastman Gallery in Vancouver. They’ve been gutted and stripped. Satellite images of Kandahar, Afghanistan cover their exteriors.

Apr 21, 2015 - by Corey Allen

UBC professor thinks Amsterdam idea could work in Vancouver

Amsterdam is studying banning cars in a part of its downtown core on Saturdays to encourage cyclists and pedestrians and reduce motor traffic. Lawrence Frank, a professor of sustainable transportation […]

Apr 21, 2015

A Seminar on Mindfulness

Apr 21, 2015

Bernard No. 10 in the world in steeplechase

Bernard No. 10 in the world in steeplechase

Maria Bernard’s 3,000-metre steeplechase victory highlighted a Friday full of superb performances by members of the UBC Thunderbirds track and field team.

Apr 20, 2015

Re-reading Emily Dickinson’s poems through the ‘lens’ of re-editing

Apr 20, 2015

Shouldn’t every day be Earth Day?

Shouldn’t every day be Earth Day?

Earth Day takes place on April 22, marking 45 years of efforts to get people talking about what they can do to protect the environment.

Apr 20, 2015

UBC experts available to comment on the 2015 federal budget

UBC researchers are available to provide analysis on a variety of topics related to the 2015 federal budget, to be announced April 21.

Apr 20, 2015

UBC names new vice president, finance

UBC names new vice president, finance

The University of British Columbia’s Board of Governors has approved the appointment of Andrew Simpson as the new vice president, finance.

Apr 17, 2015

UBC researchers aim to find out how patients are accessing medical marijuana

UBC researchers aim to find out how patients are accessing medical marijuana

One year ago, UBC nursing professor Lynda Balneaves and PhD student Rielle Capler launched the Cannabis Access Regulations Study, (CANARY), to investigate how the end of homegrown medical marijuana would affect patients.

Apr 17, 2015

Ike Barber Centre presents: In the Season of New Rice

The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre presents an exhibition of photographs exploring village life in Guizhou Province, China, by anthropologist, photographer, and UBC alumna, Evelyn Nodwell. The exhibition appears in conjunction […]

Apr 16, 2015

Two physics teachers recognized with McEwen award

Angie McTague of LV Rogers Secondary School in Nelson, B.C., and Gordon Trousdell (April 23, 1980-January 21, 2015) of West Vancouver Secondary School were honoured with UBC Engineering’s McEwen Family Teacher Recognition […]

Apr 16, 2015

Engineering students create final year capstone projects

 In their final-year capstone project, fourth-year electrical and computer engineering students Brittaney Geisler, Tyler MacDonald, Caleb Ng and Tina Saad created a simple, inexpensive, user-friendly and wireless electomyography system that can provide clinicians […]

Apr 16, 2015