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UBCO research targets oil and gas pipeline safety

Castanet News reported on a UBCO engineering study that could help oil and gas companies avoid pipeline failures. An engineering model could shed light on what parts of a pipeline […]

Do women need periods?

An NPR story on the changing views on women’s periods quotes UBC endocrinologist Jerilynn Prior. While some scholars say the need to have regular periods is no longer the case in modern […]

Governments need to act on housing affordability

In an op-ed for the Vancouver Sun, UBC Sauder School of Business associate professor Thomas Davidoff urges governments to step in to improve housing affordability. “Over 40 UBC and Simon […]

Heat land sought-after women’s volleyball setter

Kelowna Now reported on Sara McCreary, a national-level athlete who chose to join the UBCO Heat volleyball program. McCreary was a member of the Canadian youth national team in the […]

UBCO helps rural schools improve student education

Kelowna Now reported on a think tank event hosted by UBCO which brought together rural educators from 15 B.C. school districts. Solutions for strengthening small secondary schools included inviting community […]

Longtime couples get in sync, in sickness and in health

A story on NPR about the way couples age together included research from UBC psychology professor Christiane Hoppmann. Hoppmann and her colleagues found that long-time couples experience similar levels of […]

Breaking Bread: Bannock in Aboriginal cuisine

A story in The Walrus focusing on the contentious place of bannock in Aboriginal cuisine quoted UBC associate history professor Coll Thrush. “Many of the spaces that were cultivated and created […]

How social licence came to dominate the pipeline debate

UBC adjunct mining professor Jim Cooney was interviewed for a story on Maclean’s about the ill-defined term ‘social license,’ and its place in the pipeline debate. “Local communities have concerns, […]

Protect ‘Mother Trees’

A Manila Times story on superior trees known as “mother trees” quoted UBC forest ecologist Suzanne Simard. Simard said while all trees in a forest ecosystem are interconnected, the biggest, […]

How can China’s intellectuals be managed?

An article in The Diplomat explains how China’s United Front Work Department tries to include input from non-party intellectuals. Tim Cheek, a UBC Institute of Asian Research historian, was interviewed for the […]

Sweden pays parents for having kids

A story published on Vox focussed on universal child benefits and included research co-authored by UBC economist Kevin Milligan. The research found that Canada’s child benefit expansions have increased test scores and […]

UBC should let more students live on campus

The Tyee published an op-ed by landscape architecture professor Patrick M. Condon on student housing at UBC. Condon points out several alternatives to the current plans for housing on the campus and […]