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Research by Henry Siu, a UBC economics professor, was highlighted in a Bloomberg story after the socialist front-runner in France’s presidential primaries suggested a tax on robots due to their impact […]
Jan 23, 2017
The Times of India interviewed UBC president Santa Ono about his vision for the university. Ono said a commitment to innovation is at the core of the school’s future. He also discussed […]
Various media outlets highlighted UBC research that found one in five adults have snooped through the social media accounts of their friends, romantic partners or family members using the person’s own […]
David Snadden, the founding Rural Doctors UBC Chair in Rural Health, spoke to the Vancouver Sun about his new role. Snadden said inequality in access to care is a challenge […]
Ron Darvin, a UBC PhD student in the faculty of education, spoke to the Vancouver Sun about the need for digital literacy among children. He said parents can teach kids […]
The Vancouver Sun featured a research project by Felix Böck, a PhD candidate in UBC’s faculty of forestry. The project details how hundreds of thousands of tonnes of wood from […]
CTV featured UBC’s women’s hockey team, which retired the jersey of former UBC goalie and medical student Laura Taylor in order to raise awareness about the stigma faced by people […]
Tsur Somerville, a UBC Sauder School of Business professor, spoke to News 1130 after a survey found that Vancouver is the third least affordable place to live in the world. […]
The Province featured UBC Thunderbirds athletes in a story about the top 10 university sports moments this past weekend. The story mentioned basketball player Conor Morgan, the women’s hockey team, […]
Huffington Post Canada published an op-ed by Britney Dennison, from UBC’s Men’s Health Research project, and John Oliffe, a professor in the school of nursing, about the need to facilitate […]
CBC North quoted Linda Jennings, the assistant curator and manager of UBC’s herbarium, about a collection of preserved plant specimens in the Yukon. Jennings said the collection is an unknown “Canadian […]
Trevor James, a UBC alumnus, was featured in a story on Malaysia’s Star Online. James, a graduate of UBC’s forestry program, is the host of a popular YouTube channel called […]
The Vancouver Sun published an op-ed by Amie Wolf, a professor at the UBC Sauder School of Business. Wolf wrote that the passing of Indigenous leader Arthur Manuel, should have […]
Kelowna Capital News highlighted a group of students from UBC Okanagan’s campus who won first place at one of Western Canada’s largest business competitions. The team from UBCO’s faculty of […]
Thomas Davidoff, a UBC Sauder School of Business professor and real estate expert, spoke to the Globe and Mail for a story about managing home mortgages. He said maintaining a moderate […]
Kelowna Now highlighted the UBC Okanagan Heat volleyball teams after they competed against the Trinity Western Spartans over the weekend. The women’s team split their series and the men’s team was defeated. […]
Charles Ungerleider, a professor emeritus of educational studies at UBC, wrote an op-ed for the Vancouver Sun about a plan that will create 1,000 new teaching positions in B.C. following a Supreme […]
Stephen Porter, a UBC Okanagan professor of forensic psychology, was interviewed on a CBC Radio podcast about a woman who disappeared the day after she accepted a marriage proposal on live television. Porter […]
CTV interviewed James Tansey, a professor at the UBC Sauder School of Business, for a story about the huge amount of carbon dioxide emissions from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use […]
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