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Studying ‘foreign ownership’ in Vancouver

A South China Morning Post blog said the B.C. government’s study of Vancouver’s housing market is unlikely to produce useful information. The article mentioned previous, peer-reviewed research–including work done by […]

Explaining the similarities between rats and ravers

A VICE article compared the effects of flashing lights on rats’ decision-making and on Saturday night ravers. The writer interviewed one of the co-authors in a UBC study that showed […]

Vancouver’s insane house prices make Sydney look cheap

Business Insider highlights Vancouver’s red-hot housing market and quotes UBC professor Thomas Davidoff, who remarked that “anecdotally, one hears that foreign investors are turning to condos and townhomes now that […]

Vancouver teardown symbolic of housing market

CBC The National featured the $2.4 million Vancouver west side home that has become something of a symbol for Vancouver’s affordable housing challenges. UBC policy professor Paul Kershaw said governments […]

UBC finance committee advises against divesting from fossil fuel

Media outlets reported Wednesday on the UBC board’s decision to keep the university’s existing fossil fuel holdings and to create a $10 million sustainability fund that will invest in low-carbon enterprises. Representatives of […]

The Scout List

The Globe and Mail‘s Scout List included a winter foraging class offered at UBC Farm Thursday night.

The university professors who are at the heads of the 2015 class

A new Maclean’s article featured UBC soil science professor Maja Krzic and other winners of the 3M National Fellowship Award. Krzic has created an online resource for soil science learning […]

Seeking the source of Canadian investors’ woes

Thomas Davidoff, a professor at UBC’s Sauder School of Business, attributes Canada’s economic malaise to rising U.S. interest rates and slumping Chinese demand for Canadian resources. “China has been an […]

Popular antibiotics to carry new warning about retinal detachment

The Vancouver Sun reports that fluoroquinolones–a group of popular antibiotics–will now carry a warning label following a second Health Canada review of reports that some of those who used the […]

Zika virus prompts some locals to change travel plans

The Zika outbreak has some concerned Canadians changing their travel plans, according to reports in the Vancouver Sun and The Province. Dr. Julie Van Schalkwyk of UBC’s department of obstetrics […]

Author and global food expert Raj Patel will speak at UBC

An upcoming talk hosted by UBC Reads Sustainability was featured in the Georgia Straight. The talk will feature U.S. activist and scholar Raj Patel who will speak about the growing […]

Zika virus is the price we pay for globalization

UBC adjunct medical geography professor Tom Koch wrote about the Zika virus in the Globe and Mail. “There is nothing truly unusual about Zika virus,” Koch wrote. “At one level, […]

Academic Minute: Malaria vaccine and cancer

UBC senior research scientist and urology professor Mads Daugaard talks about discovering that a malaria protein is effective in shrinking cancers in mice on Inside Higher Ed’s Academic Minute. “The […]

Province boosts tech research funding at UBC Okanagan

Kelowna Capital News highlighted a recent visit by Advanced Education Minister Andrew Wilkinson to UBC Okanagan. Wilkinson visited a UBCO-industry partnership that’s researching an energy-absorbing liner for helmets that could […]

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