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What Makes Gambling Addictive?

What Makes Gambling Addictive?

Is slot machine gambling more about excitement or absorption? Professor Luke Clark looks at how game design influences gambling addiction.

Oct 14, 2016

Canadians avoid calling Cleveland team ‘Indians’

BBC interviewed Rima Wilkes, a UBC sociologist, for a story on Canadians’ reluctance to say the full name of the Cleveland Indians baseball team because they think it appropriates indigenous culture. “I think […]

Oct 14, 2016

The link between homelessness and soaring housing prices

The link between homelessness and soaring housing prices

The link between homelessness and soaring housing prices Penny Gurstein, director of UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning, co-wrote an op-ed for the Globe and Mail. Read it here.

Oct 14, 2016

Of wood and trees

The Economist featured a study by two UBC professors in an article on the upcoming carbon tax vote in Washington state. Werner Antweiler of the Sauder School of Business and environmental and […]

Oct 14, 2016

America’s innovation crisis

Politico interviewed UBC economist Joshua Gottlieb for an article on risk among entrepreneurs. Gottlieb and colleagues studied entrepreneurship rates among new mothers before and after Canada increased maternity leave policies. They found […]

Oct 14, 2016

A super typhoon spawned the storm that’s heading for us

The Seattle Times quoted Wolf Read, a UBC forest science PhD candidate, in a story about Typhoon Songda, which is threatening Washington state with a fierce Saturday windstorm. Read said Songda was well-positioned […]

Oct 14, 2016

‘The Hidden Life of Trees’ explores writer’s love for the forest

UBC research was mentioned in a Seattle Times review of a book about the hidden life of trees. UBC forest ecologist Suzanne Simard studies the interaction of fungi and tree roots that allows […]

Oct 14, 2016

Why more 20-somethings are getting Botox

CBC quoted UBC dermatologist Shannon Humphrey for a story on the phenomenon of more young women who turn to Botox to slow aging. Humphrey said there is some circumstantial evidence […]

Oct 14, 2016

Bangladesh’s ‘rickshaw faculty’

Inside Higher Education featured work by Matt Husain, a PhD candidate at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Husain spent six weeks conducting an ethnographic study of faculty and students in Bangladesh and found evidence […]

Oct 14, 2016

UBC eSports club opens online gaming lounge

Global BC featured UBC’s eSports club which will have a new gaming facility with $100,000 worth of equipment. UBC’s club has 800 members, making it the largest of its kind […]

Oct 14, 2016

Plowed snow could keep Canadians cool in the summer

The Toronto Star published a Canadian Press article which highlighted work by UBC engineering professor Kasun Hewage and colleagues. They found that buildings could cool their air more efficiently using […]

Oct 14, 2016

B.C. mills could see layoffs if U.S. imposes softwood duties

News 1130 spoke with Harry Nelson, a UBC forestry professor, for an article on softwood lumber negotiations between Canada and the U.S. He believes the new deal could mean B.C. job […]

Oct 14, 2016

Canadian butter “really sucks”, says B.C. researcher

The Vancouver Sun featured research from UBC’s Okanagan campus that found Canadian butter has the highest omega-6 fatty acid content compared with butter produced in 13 countries. These findings likely […]

Oct 14, 2016

Hearst paved way for Trump as demagogue in U.S. politics

UBC educational studies professor emeritus Charles Ungerleider wrote an op-ed for the Vancouver Sun comparing Donald Trump to William Randolph Hearst. “While Trump’s electoral foray seems unlikely to succeed, Hearst […]

Oct 14, 2016

UBC’s Apple Festival celebrates 25 years

The Vancouver Sun highlighted UBC’s Apple Festival which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Approximately 36,000 pounds of apples will be sold and all proceeds support the work of the botanical […]

Oct 14, 2016

Rental squeeze won’t let up without the help of feds

Metro News quoted Penny Gurstein, director of the School of Community and Regional Planning at UBC, for a story on the difficulties of finding rental housing in Vancouver. “It’s been gradual, […]

Oct 14, 2016

Parkinson’s app the latest from Surrey’s Innovation Boulevard

Surrey Now highlighted an app co-created by Martin McKeown, the director of UBC’s Pacific Parkinson’s Research Centre. The app, called CognitiaPD, is part of a large-scale Parkinson’s study that will […]

Oct 14, 2016

Promising paper on novel treatment for asthma

UBC medicine professor Jeremy Hirota was mentioned in a Canadian Business Journal story on an immunotherapy approach to reduce airway immune dysfunction in a mouse model of asthma. Hirota’s UBC […]

Oct 14, 2016

Conserving bears with computer modelling

Pique Magazine reported on research from UBC’s Okanagan campus that examines human-bear conflicts using Whistler as a case study. Lael Parrott, a professor of earth and environmental sciences at UBC’s […]

Oct 14, 2016

Tiny solution to big problem

A two-year study from UBC’s Okanagan campus found microorganisms that cause issues for mining operations could possibly be managed, Castanet reported. Researchers isolated oxidizing bacteria and microbes that contribute to […]

Oct 14, 2016