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Could clay help attack superbugs?

Discovery News reported on research by UBC microbiologists Julian Davies and Shekooh Behroozian. The researchers found that clay from Kisameet Bay, historically used by the  Heiltsuk First Nation for healing, has the ability […]

Slip the Snare: UBC MFA Graduate Exhibition

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Blinded UBC student to speak about attack that took her sight

CBC Radio program As it Happens featured an inspirational UBC law student who will deliver the keynote speech at the 20th annual Big Sisters Spring Lunch. Rumana Monzur was studying at UBC and was […]

Free women’s legal clinic opens in Vancouver

CBC News reported on the Rise Women’s Legal Centre, a free legal clinic that is a partnership between UBC’s Allard School of Law and West Coast Legal Education and Action […]

A discussion on lyme disease

Dr. Bill Bowie, professor of medicine at UBC in the division of infectious diseases, joined CBC B.C. Almanac for a conversation about lyme disease in B.C. “Lyme disease is a […]

UBC100: William Shatner – The Curious Life

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‘Snob zoning’ keeps Vancouver unaffordable

UBC economist Tom Davidoff was interviewed for a CTV News story on housing affordability. Some two-thirds of the City of Vancouver is zoned for a home, including a basement suite […]

Mother and son graduate from UBC together

CTV’s Canada AM reported on mother-son duo Randy and Jocelyne Robinson who will both graduate from UBC this week. Randy will graduate with a law degree and Jocelyne will graduate with a PhD […]

Governments must clamp down on foreign buyers

An op-ed on the Vancouver Courier on unaffordable housing quoted Christopher Rea, director of UBC’s Centre for Chinese Research. A survey of UBC deans that found 18 people turned down jobs […]

Saving for a Vancouver down payment takes 23 years

A story on Global News highlights the work of UBC policy professor Paul Kershaw and his Code Red campaign. “When housing has become so expensive in B.C…the reality is younger adults […]

Code Red Campaign focuses on “broken” housing market

UBC policy professor Paul Kershaw was interviewed for a News 1130 story on a campaign about the out-of-control housing prices. “Our goal is to ensure that every party — the […]

Experts weigh in on Vancouver housing prices

Metro News reported on a UBC Sauder School of Business event that focused on affordable housing in Vancouver. Some experts advocated for a mix of housing types and others said […]

Millennials plan to buy vacation homes

Buying a vacation home is a discretionary purchase, said UBC business professor Tsur Somerville, in a Metro News story on real estate prices and trends. Statistics from a TD survey […]

Hundreds of Canadian scholars issue damning warning on Site C

A story on Metro News focused on the warning from nearly 300 academics that BC Hydro’s proposed Site C dam would wreak more environmental damage than any other project in […]

Genetic insights may help kids battling developmental delays

UPI reported on new medical treatment including researchers from the UBC medicine department and BC Children’s Hospital that may change thousands of lives through genetic screening. Researchers can identify the genetic […]

UBC researchers discover cure for ‘concrete cancer’

Kelowna Capital News reported on UBCO engineering research that cures so-called ‘concrete cancer.’ Researchers can now calm a chemical reaction that has caused glass-fed concrete to weaken, expand and crack. […]

William Shatner talks about UBC appearance

A story in the Georgia Straight highlights William Shatner’s UBC event as part of the centennial celebrations. The famous Canadian actor plans to discuss the differences that both divide us […]