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Media are invited to tour the new, state-of-the-art $40-million UBC Aquatic Centre.
Jan 17, 2017
Facts and figures on the new UBC Aquatic Centre
Watch a timelapse video of construction of UBC’s new, $40 million aquatic centre which opens to the public January 23, 2017.
Business in Vancouver reported on Target Tape, a company started by UBC Sauder School of Business alumnus Nick Seto and an engineering student. The company’s first product, called is X-Grid, is designed to help surgeons better […]
Mark Turin and Sara Shneiderman know what it’s like to have a home reduced to rubble.
Boluwaji Ogunyemi, the chief resident of dermatology at UBC, wrote an op-ed for the Globe and Mail about the implications of a restaurant hostess asking to write down an “easier” name than his. Ogunyemi […]
Maxwell Cameron, a UBC political science professor, spoke to Global after B.C.’s deputy premier called American coverage of the annual, political donation-supplied $50,000 stipend given to Premier Christy Clark “laughable.” […]
UBC president Santa Ono announced a new adviser on China and a new executive director for his office, the Vancouver Sun reported. Weihong Song, a Canada Research Chair on Alzheimer’s […]
Reuters quoted Joshua Gottlieb, a UBC economics professor, for an article about B.C.’s new first-time buyers loan program after the application process opened Monday. Gottlieb said the program will likely […]
The Daily Mail featured research by Daniel Pauly and Dirk Zeller that found our appetite for sushi may be harming both our health and the environment. The researchers found that […]
Kevin Milligan, a UBC economist, spoke to the Vancouver Sun about the private donations to B.C.’s political parties that end up costing taxpayers millions. He said the tax credit, particularly […]
Metro News Toronto quoted Paul Kershaw, a professor in UBC’s school of population and public health, for a story about rising housing prices in Toronto. He said measures such as […]
The International Business Times featured UBC research that found medications used in therapeutic and preventative highly active antiretroviral therapy could lower the immune system responses of patients to diseases like […]
Steve Morgan, a professor at UBC’s school of population and public health, spoke to the Canadian Press about bilateral health deals between Ottawa and provinces. He said the idea of […]
Surrey Now featured an interview with Mark Holder, a psychology professor at UBC’s Okanagan campus, about methods to cope with Blue Monday, known as the most depressing day of the year. […]
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Zach Walsh, a psychology professor at UBC’s Okanagan campus will be giving a lecture about his marijuana research, Castanet reported. Walsh’s findings suggest that cannabis could help some alcoholics and opioid […]
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