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UBC Reports | December 16

UBC Reports | December 16

Dec 16, 2016

Make Vancouver the world’s slowest city: A manifesto

Make Vancouver the world’s slowest city: A manifesto

Make Vancouver the world’s slowest city: A manifesto Patrick Condon, the chair of the master of urban design program at UBC SALA, co-wrote an op-ed for The Tyee offering an […]

Dec 16, 2016

UBC building damaged by fire caused by roofing equipment

CBC reported that a fire likely caused by roofing equipment has damaged UBC’s Institute of Asian Research building. UBC building operations staff discovered the fire on West Mall around 11 p.m. Thursday.

Dec 16, 2016

Vancouver homes are so pricey that government will pitch in

Several UBC experts spoke to various media outlets after the B.C. government unveiled a program to offer five-year interest-free and payment-free loans to first-time homebuyers. Bloomberg interviewed Thomas Davidoff, a professor […]

Dec 16, 2016

Guidelines offer women options for treating ‘morning sickness’

The Canadian Press interviewed Kim Campbell, an instructor at UBC’s midwifery program, for an article about updated treatment guidelines for women dealing with morning sickness. Campbell, who co-authored the guidelines, […]

Dec 16, 2016

Fire in Chilliwack makeshift camp highlights homelessness crisis

Global interviewed Margot Young, a UBC law professor and housing rights expert, after a fire in a homeless camp brought attention to the homelessness crisis in the Lower Mainland. Young said […]

Dec 16, 2016

Scientist criticized by UBC probe condemns investigation process

MSN published a Vancouver Sun article on a former UBC professor who criticized the way the school handled a 2014 investigation into scholarly misconduct. Helen Burt, UBC’s associate vice-president, said privacy law prevents […]

Dec 16, 2016

Too many breast ‘lumpectomies’ followed by more surgery

UBC research has found that many Canadian breast cancer patients have repeat surgeries, impacting patient wellbeing and health care costs, the Vancouver Sun reported. Chris Baliski, a clinical professor  at UBC’s […]

Dec 16, 2016

100,000 in Metro Vancouver could lose homeowners grant

Tsur Somerville, a UBC Sauder School of Business professor, was interviewed in a Vancouver Sun article published on MSN about the potential for homeowners to lose a grant at property […]

Dec 16, 2016

Former UBC president David Strangway dies

News 1130 reported on the death of former UBC president David Strangway. Strangway was a geophysicist who served as president of UBC from 1985 to 1997 and worked for NASA […]

Dec 16, 2016

Vancouver is rat central according to pest-control company

Metro News interviewed Kaylee Byers, a UBC zoology PhD candidate and researcher with the Vancouver Rat Project, after a pest control company named Vancouver the city with the most rats in the province. […]

Dec 16, 2016

Here’s how we’ll know if Trump engages in secret surveillance

The Washington Post published an op-ed on warning signs that the Trump administration is unilaterally altering surveillance policies, co-written by Paul J. Quirk, a UBC political scientist and Phil Lind […]

Dec 16, 2016

The problem with lectures

Castanet featured a study from UBC’s Okanagan campus that found traditional university lectures may not be an effective method to help students acquire problem-solving skills. Researchers Heather Hurren at UBCO’s centre for teaching and […]

Dec 16, 2016

Climate change politics in the age of Trudeau and Trump

Kathryn Harrison, a UBC political scientist, discussed climate change politics in an interview with The Tyee. She said the election of Donald Trump seems to be regressive for climate change policy […]

Dec 16, 2016

Global fish stocks are in worse shape than we thought

Vice featured research by Daniel Pauly, a professor at UBC’s institute for the oceans and fisheries, in an article about under-reporting of fish catches around the world. Pauly co-wrote the […]

Dec 16, 2016

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Dec 16, 2016