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Jun 27, 2017
Wayne Goodey, a lecturer in UBC’s department of zoology, was interviewed for a CBC story about crow behaviour after Canada Post suspended mail delivery following crow attacks. Goodey said crows […]
Bloomberg quoted Julian Dierkes, a professor with UBC’s Institute of Asian Research, about Mongolia’s presidential vote. He said voter frustration has led to a “protest against the two big parties.”
Hindustan Times featured UBC research that connects children’s sleep to the mental health of their parents. Wendy Hall, a UBC nursing professor and sleep expert, studied depression scores of parents […]
Margot Young, an expert in constitutional law at UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law, spoke to the Vancouver Sun about B.C.’s lieutenant-governor. Young said the lieutenant-governor position is often […]
The Innocence Project at UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law, worked on the appeal effort of a 1983 murder case, the Vancouver Sun reported. The story also appeared in […]
Observer highlighted research from Lara Boyd, a UBC neuroscientist. She noted that the human brain changes chemically, structurally and functionally to support learning new things.
The federal government is providing $3 million in funding to UBC’s Museum of Anthropology, the Georgia Straight reported. Mélanie Joly, Canada’s Minister of Canadian Heritage, announced that the investment directly […]
The Jakarta Post highlighted UBC research about the impact of exercise on vascular dementia. Teresa Liu-Ambrose, the director of UBC’s Aging, Mobility and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab and study lead author, […]
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Metro News reported on a UBC alumna who created a leading clean tech company dedicated to helping people achieve zero-carbon homes. Janice Cheam studied business at UBC and collaborated with […]
The Georgia Straight mentioned work by Jon Stoessl, a UBC Parkinson’s disease expert. Stoessl used genetic testing to confirm that a local musician had a double-recessive gene associated with a […]
Andy Yan, an adjunct professor of planning at UBC, wrote an op-ed for the Vancouver Sun about the rejection of a rezoning proposal in Chinatown. He wrote that the optimistic […]
Philip Stamp, a professor in UBC’s department of physics and astronomy, was interviewed on CBC Radio’s Cross Country Checkup. Stamp discussed a collection of artefacts that was deliberately destroyed by […]
Business in Vancouver listed the creation of UBC on its list of 150 events that shaped B.C.’s economy. In 1915, UBC was established as an independent university, allowing it to […]
Rima Wilkes, a UBC sociology professor, was interviewed for a Canadian Press story about the Canada 150 celebrations. She said there is now more awareness that Canada is “not a […]
Business in Vancouver profiled Celeste Haldane, the BC Treaty Commission’s new chief commissioner to law and a UBC alumna. Haldane considers herself an anthropologist and a lawyer, and she is […]
Elizabeth Edinger, a professor at UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law and private international law expert, was quoted in a Business in Vancouver story about a Guatemala mining case […]
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