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The University of British Columbia will announce its 15th president and vice-chancellor on Monday, June 13. Following a short event with the campus community, UBC’s next president will have a brief media availability.
Jun 10, 2016
UBC Reports | June 10
Hubert T. Lacroix is a Canadian lawyer and the President and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public radio and television broadcaster.
The red and white of Canadian rugby is making its mark in the land of ‘Blue and Gold’ this week.
Survey sheds light on safety issues around drug use and music festivals in B.C. The Georgia Straight published an op-ed by two UBC students on the topic of drug use […]
A surge of 13,800 jobs added to Canada’s labour market in May helped drop the national unemployment rate to 6.9 per cent— its lowest level since July 2015, according to Statistics Canada’s labour force survey released today.
The Financial Times quoted UBC political scientist Max Cameron after the federal Liberals failed to meet a Supreme Court deadline over an assisted death legislation bill. “Reality is biting back, […]
Huffington Post reported on planetary discoveries by 22-year-old UBC student Michelle Kunimoto. Kunimoto began studying data from the Kepler space telescope for her physics and astronomy course work and found […]
BNN interviewed Paul Kershaw, UBC school of population and public health professor, on the topic of barriers to Vancouver millennials buying homes. Kershaw discussed research he worked on with the project Generation […]
CBC News interviewed Lucas Brotz, a UBC PhD student and jellyfish researcher on the recent images released of a fish inside a jellyfish. Brotz and other researchers said they could not definitively confirm the […]
A Canadian Press story on City News focused on potential treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and quoted Dr. Anthony Traboulsee, medical director of the MS clinic at UBC Hospital. […]
UBC psychology professor and cannabis researcher Zach Walsh was quoted in a Globe and Mail story on the predicted success of marijuana edibles. He said the key issues are standardization […]
Last week, Vancouver’s annual Bike to Work Week broke a record as 11,602 cyclists, including almost 2,000 new riders rode a bike to work or school. CBC News reported on the […]
CBC News reported on UBC forestry professor Kathy Martin and UBC forestry graduate student Julien St. Amand as they work to save endangered woodpeckers that are only found in B.C. St. […]
Darren Dahl and Liz Starbuck of UBC’s Robert H. Lee Graduate School of business were interviewed for a Globe and Mail article on women in business schools. Starbuck said Sauder […]
A Vancouver Sun article on a proposed mental health hub quotes UBC psychology professor and city councillor Kerry Jang. The hub would be used for quick psychiatric and substance abuse […]
A story in the Vancouver Sun quotes UBC medicine professor Dr. William Gourlay on the topic of what qualities make good surgeons. The article comes in response to a viral video of […]
The Vancouver Courier profiled UBC-bound cross-country runner Kieran Lumb. Lumb plans to study engineering in university. His future coach is excited to have the runner join the Thunderbirds. “We really think […]
A story in the Winnipeg Free Press highlighted UBC research on bike safety. The research from UBC’s school of population and public health found that helmet legislation is a waste […]
The Vancouver Sun reported on provincial legislation requiring universities to have sex assault policies in place by May 2017. The article included information about the recent draft policy created by UBC. […]
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