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Cheaper cell plans coming?

Marc-David Seidel of the Sauder School of Business at UBC spoke to Global News for a story on Shaw’s plans to buy $430 million worth of spectrum licences in B.C. […]

Transgender youth are bullied more often than other kids

The Province cited a 2015 UBC study on bullying among transgender youth. The research, which dealt with transgender youth living in Canada, found that more than one in three younger […]

Recycled tires creating stronger concrete at UBC

News 1130 reported on concrete material that was developed by UBC researchers using recycled fibres from used tires. Nemkumar Banthia, a UBC civil engineering professor who supervised the research project, […]

Transit action needed now: Transportation officials

Business in Vancouver interviewed Robin Lindsey, a professor of transportation economics at the UBC Sauder School of Business, about Metro Vancouver transit. Lindsey discussed surveys on time lost due to […]

Clark leaves ‘Honey-Do List’ from hell for Horgan

The Tyee quoted David Ley, a UBC geography professor, about issues in B.C. politics. He said the province has experienced “years of neglect of affordable housing issues, and a lot […]

Bains’s mixed messages on Norsat a cause for concern

Michael Byers, the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at UBC, wrote an op-ed for the Globe and Mail after a Canadian satellite manufacturer was sold to […]

Vancouver’s intellectual climate breathes fresh air into Beverley McLachlin’s open-minded court

The Georgia Straight cited a speech by Philippe Tortell, the director of UBC’s Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, about West Coast intellectual life. Tortell said there is an open-minded […]