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Fish farm project helps Cambodian women care for families, learn business skills

Fish farm project helps Cambodian women care for families, learn business skills

An international food security project that helps low-income women farmers in Cambodia farm fish and garden at home will now help them become entrepreneurs, thanks to more than $1M in funding to UBC from CIFSRF.

May 28, 2015

Cedar & Bamboo: film screening & discussion

May 28, 2015

New data on reported and unreported marine catches now available online

New data on reported and unreported marine catches now available online

Researchers with UBC’s Sea Around Us project have launched a new open-source web platform that provides the first comprehensive coverage of both reported and unreported fish.

May 27, 2015

Gulf Islands plant evolves to protect itself from deer

Gulf Islands plant evolves to protect itself from deer

A plant on BC’s Gulf Islands has genetically evolved to avoid being eaten by herds of hungry deer, according to UBC research.

May 27, 2015

Community Feast Bowl

May 27, 2015

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation boosts ultra-fast quantum materials research at UBC

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation boosts ultra-fast quantum materials research at UBC

Researchers at UBC will be able to probe the mysteries of quantum materials with a new state-of-the-art ultrafast laser, thanks to a $1.4 million US grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

May 26, 2015

Insights Exhibit Design Tour

May 26, 2015

How racial stereotypes impact the way we communicate

How racial stereotypes impact the way we communicate

Racial stereotypes and expectations can impact the way we communicate and understand others, according to UBC research.

May 26, 2015

Chantal Bian, cello – DMA Solo Recital

May 25, 2015

IndigenEYEZ – A Participatory Youth Leadership Program on the Land

IndigenEYEZ – A Participatory Youth Leadership Program on the Land Wednesday, June 3: 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

May 22, 2015

Capture Photography Festival Feature Exhibition: Images That Speak

May 22, 2015

UBC-Yale team help translate Facebook’s Safety Check tool after Nepal quake

UBC-Yale team help translate Facebook’s Safety Check tool after Nepal quake

UBC linguist Mark Turin helped translate Facebook’s Safety Check tool into Nepali.

May 22, 2015

UBC Reports | May 21

UBC Reports | May 21

May 21, 2015

Robotics and Automation Technologies for Humanitarian Applications

Faculty of Applied Science Associate Dean and Mechanical Engineering Professor Elizabeth Croft will be hosting a presentation given by Jonathan Ledgard, co-founder of research and technology transfer consortium Red Line at École […]

May 21, 2015

Psychology graduate promotes science to Aboriginal students

New psychology graduate Ryan Tomm (BA ’15) has worked to promote science to Aboriginal students. He won an NSERC award to do summer research and shared his knowledge of the […]

May 21, 2015

Steel Bridge Team at the regionals

The UBC Steel Bridge Team participated in the regional competition at the American Society of Civil Engineers Pacific Northwest Regional Conference at Idaho State University. Teams were challenged in bridge […]

May 21, 2015

Engineering physics group qualifies as finalist

Fourth-year engineering physics students Alexander Toews, Darrick Lee and Elizabeth Wicks were selected as one of the six finalist groups in the Medical Device Development Centre Awards for Excellence in Biomedical […]

May 21, 2015

UBC offers first-ever online photonics course

UBC is offering the world’s first online course to include photonics fabrication, experimentation, and data analysis. Taught by electrical and computer engineering professor Lukas Chrostowski, students and industry professionals taking […]

May 21, 2015

Three T-Birds named NAIA All-Americans

Three T-Birds named NAIA All-Americans

The NAIA has announced the 2015 NAIA Women’s Golf All-America teams, as selected by the NAIA-Women’s Golf Coaches Association All-America Committee.

May 21, 2015

Engineering student first to receive new memorial scholarship

Alexandra Dozzi, a third-year mechanical engineering student, is the inaugural recipient of the Marie Carter Memorial Undergraduate Engineering Scholarship awarded by the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation. The $5,000 award is given to […]

May 21, 2015