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Climate change could overload the U.S. electrical grid

Various media outlets mentioned UBC research that shows the U.S. electrical grid may not be able to meet peak energy needs by the end of this century. The report was led by scientists […]

Feb 7, 2017

Over 1,000 students take part in snowball fight at UBC

Xinhua featured the campus-wide snowball fight at UBC. The event drew more than 1,000 students. Similar stories appeared on MSN, International Business Times, Yahoo U.K., CTV, CBC, Global, Vancouver Sun, Georgia Straight, Castanet, and Daily Hive.

Feb 7, 2017

The secret life of trees: Is nature less selfish than we think?

CNN interviewed Suzanne Simard, a UBC ecologist, about her research on communication among organisms in forests. She found that trees communicate using an underground “mycorrhizal network,” a symbiotic association between a […]

Feb 7, 2017

Just one weight-lifting session can do this for diabetes

MSN published a Reader’s Digest story on a UBC study that shows interval weight training can help people with Type 2 diabetes by improving blood vessel function. Jonathan Little, a […]

Feb 7, 2017

Millennials in the workplace aren’t coddled, bosses are jerks

MSN published a Canadian Business story that mentioned a video for UBC instructors. The video, circulated by the faculty of medicine, asked instructors to avoid putting students on the spot, […]

Feb 7, 2017

Barely educated humans impact bear behaviour

Science Daily featured research from UBC’s Okanagan campus that found although urban sprawl leads to more human-bear interactions, better human education is needed. Lael Parrott, a UBCO professor of biology […]

Feb 7, 2017

Detroit’s recovery: The glass is half-full at most

The Conversation mentioned research on creative class-led gentrification by Jamie Peck, a UBC geography professor. The article, which focuses on the recovery of Detroit, notes that the pace of revitalization is too […]

Feb 7, 2017

For indigenous communities, fish is more than food

Salon published an op-ed by two UBC researchers about the significance of seafood for coastal indigenous peoples around the globe. Yoshitaka Ota and Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, researchers with the Nippon Foundation-UBC […]

Feb 7, 2017

Remembering Joy Coghill: Doyenne of Vancouver’s theatre scene

The Globe and Mail featured UBC alumna Joy Coghill, a social activist and renowned Canadian theatre, film and TV personality. Coghill enrolled at UBC for social work and was also […]

Feb 7, 2017

Ada/Ava puppetry for a grown-up audience

The Vancouver Sun reported on the upcoming Ada/Ava puppetry show at UBC’s Chan Centre. The multimedia event takes place on Feb. 7. The story also appeared in The Province and […]

Feb 7, 2017

The scientific reason you feel like an outsider when you go home

Work by Mark Schaller, a UBC psychology professor, was mentioned in an Elite Daily story on why someone’s personality changes when they move to a new place. According to Schaller, social […]

Feb 7, 2017

Discussing the U.K.’s White Papers

Roundhouse Radio interviewed Kurt Huebner, the director of UBC’s Institute for European Studies, about the White Papers published by the U.K. on Brexit. Huebner said the papers seem to confirm […]

Feb 7, 2017

The 50% Minority: Women in International Development

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Feb 7, 2017

Time for Liberals to limit tax breaks that favour highest earners

The Globe and Mail published an op-ed by David Duff, a professor and director of the Tax LLM program at UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law. Duff wrote that […]

Feb 7, 2017

Med students helping Nepal

Eight first-year UBC medical students will travel to Nepal to organize the largest public health screen in the country’s history, Castanet reported. This is the third year for the UBC […]

Feb 7, 2017

Dawson: Trudeau declines to act, society counters travel ban

The Ottawa Citizen mentioned UBC in an op-ed about the international response to Trump’s travel ban. UBC created a task force to assess what the school can do to help […]

Feb 7, 2017

Safe injection site feasibility study released Tuesday in Thunder Bay

CBC Thunder Bay featured a report by Thomas Kerr, a UBC professor of medicine, who has spent years studying safe injection sites in Vancouver, and internationally. The study looked at the feasibility of setting […]

Feb 7, 2017

UBCO group brings together young and old in Kelowna

Kelowna Now reported on a group from UBC’s Okanagan campus that aims to develop friendships between younger and older community member in Kelowna. Several UBCO students cofounded the group, called AgeLink.

Feb 7, 2017

Academics investigate the roots of radicalization

University Affairs featured the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society, which was co-founded in 2012 by Daniel Hiebert, a UBC geography professor, and Lorne Dawson, a sociology […]

Feb 7, 2017

Guest shot: B.C. homeowner loan program twice as expensive as government claims

Metro News published an op-ed by Thomas Davidoff, a professor at the UBC Sauder School of Business, about B.C’s homeowner loan program. He wrote that the program will increase the probability of […]

Feb 7, 2017