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Trump’s pipeline politics could prompt major backlash

George Hoberg, a professor at UBC’s Liu Institute for Global Issues, spoke to CBC’s Early Edition about the U.S. backlash that may come from President Donald Trump’s decision to put […]

Jan 26, 2017

Site C ruling shows courts don’t take reconciliation seriously

Gordon Christie, a UBC law professor spoke to CBC’s Daybreak North about a Federal Court of Appeal ruling on the Site C dam project that suggests reconciliation is not being […]

Jan 26, 2017

UBC students recreate historic Saturn probe landing

CBC featured UBC engineering students who took part in a competition replicating NASA’s 2005 Cassini mission that successfully landed a probe on Saturn’s largest moon. Twenty teams aimed to shoot […]

Jan 26, 2017

Unlucky in love? Try thinking critically about it

Carrie Jenkins, a UBC philosophy professor, spoke to the Vancouver Sun about the biological and societal origins of love. She advocates for critical thinking concerning love, particularly when we are […]

Jan 26, 2017

Executive orders: what are they, and how far can Trump go?

News 1130 interviewed Paul Quirk, a UBC political science professor, about the recent executive orders by U.S. President Donald Trump. Quirk said Congress could not reverse these orders but they […]

Jan 26, 2017

Medical hackathon at UBC aims to build biomedical solutions

Metro News previewed an upcoming event at UBC centred on biomedical devices, called the Hatching Health hackathon. People from medical, design, and engineering fields are encouraged to apply for the March 3 to […]

Jan 26, 2017

Impact of mental health on lung cancer survival rates: study

The Georgia Straight featured a UBC study that showed anxiety and depression shorten the lives of people diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. The research suggests that doctors should also work […]

Jan 26, 2017

Is the default mode of the brain to suffer?

New York Magazine quoted Evan Thompson, a UBC philosophy professor, about the default-mode content of our brains and how it relates to our concept of self. Thompson said mental wanderings are […]

Jan 26, 2017

A Buddhist tradition to save animals has taken an ugly turn

Chris Harley, a UBC zoologist, was quoted in a National Geographic story about an ancient Buddhist ritual which involves freeing captive animals to generate positive karma. In 2014, Harley told Audubon […]

Jan 26, 2017

‘Pop-up’ consulate coming

Castanet reported on a pop-up U.S. consulate that will be held at UBC’s Okanagan campus. On Feb. 21 services including American citizens’ passport renewals, help with lost and expired passports, […]

Jan 26, 2017

New Year spike in price of China’s fake boyfriends, girlfriends

CNBC published a South China Morning Post story featuring an interview with Yue Qian, a UBC sociology professor. She said older generations tend to value marriage above everything while younger people […]

Jan 26, 2017

Home of today vs tomorrow

UBC engineering researchers and students will use sensors built into a test home to compare energy use between new technology and standard residential building codes, Castanet reported. The projects aims […]

Jan 26, 2017

Pot and mental health

A presentation by Zach Walsh, a psychology professor at UBC’s Okanagan campus, was featured on Castanet. Walsh discussed his research on the potential benefits and risks of cannabis when it […]

Jan 26, 2017

Reopen Riverview: mayor

Castanet quoted Michael Krausz, a psychiatry researcher and addiction expert at UBC, for an article about calls for the B.C. government to repurpose part of Riverview Hospital for the treatment […]

Jan 26, 2017

B.C. bridges too strong?

Shahria Alam, an engineering professor at UBC’s Okanagan campus, was highlighted on Castanet for research examining a variety of bridge types and national design requirements. Alam said the findings showed bridges are […]

Jan 26, 2017

One in 5 Facebook accounts secretly accessed by friends, spouses

AOL reported on UBC research that found one in five adults have snooped through the Facebook account of a friend, romantic partner or family member using the person’s own device. […]

Jan 26, 2017

Vancouver’s population growing slower than province’s

Thomas Davidoff, a UBC economics professor, spoke to the Vancouver Courier after new provincial statistics showed Vancouver’s population is growing slower than the population of B.C. Davidoff said city zoning […]

Jan 26, 2017

When robots steal your job

MSN published a Maclean’s story on the automation of jobs and interviewed Henry Siu, a UBC economics professor. Siu said the trucking industry could automate within two years meaning this […]

Jan 26, 2017

Bangladeshi Wahid’s visual FX team cheers

The Daily Star featured UBC alumnus Wahid Ibn Reza whose work on Marvel’s Doctor Strange has been nominated for an Academy Award. Reza, a graduate of UBC’s film production program, […]

Jan 26, 2017

Museum exhibit highlights textile artefacts

The Vancouver Courier highlighted the Layers of Influence exhibit at UBC’s Museum of Anthropology. Jennifer Kramer, a UBC anthropology professor and curator of the Pacific Northwest for the museum, discussed […]

Jan 26, 2017