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Aug 9, 2017
Student-designed automated robots will attempt to save “secret agents” from drowning in a tank of water.
CBC Radio’s On The Coast interviewed Roger Wong, executive associate dean of education for the faculty of medicine at UBC, about the opioid crisis. UBC and the British Columbia Centre on […]
Shauna Butterwick, a UBC professor of education, was quoted in a CBC story after the NDP government announced they will eliminate tuition fees on adult basic education and English language […]
Wired U.K. interviewed Jaymie Matthews, a UBC professor of astronomy, after a group of physicists studied the movement of a group of stars around the black hole at the centre of the […]
Global highlighted the second annual World Indigenous Basketball Challenge held at UBC. The event includes 24 Indigenous teams from around the world. A similar story appeared in the Vancouver Courier.
R. G. Matson, a UBC anthropologist, was quoted in a Science Magazine story about new insights into where the Ancestral Puebloan people may have gone. Matson said that although the […]
Brock Commons, a new UBC student residence and timber tower, was mentioned in a Vancouver Sun story on an architect who is at the centre of the movement toward mass […]
Laura Tamblyn Watts, a staff lawyer at the Canadian Centre for Elder Law at UBC, was quoted in a story in the Ottawa Citizen about indebted seniors. Watts was involved […]
Will Gornall, a professor at the UBC Sauder School of Business, was interviewed on Roundhouse Radio about his research that found half of all start-up unicorns, companies worth over $1 […]
Express U.K. interviewed Ross King, a professor and head of UBC’s department of Asian studies, about commemorative stamps featuring Princess Diana that were released in North Korea in 1982. He […]
Carolyn McEwen, a UBC alumna and Canadian rugby team member, was profiled in The Province. McEwen is also an instructor in the university’s school of kinesiology.
Metro News Toronto quoted Judith Myers, a UBC zoology professor emerita, about a virus affecting tent caterpillars this summer. She said the virus is very species-specific and does not pose […]
Penticton Western News highlighted the new UBC family practice residency program in the South Okanagan. Margie Krabbe, site director for the UBC program, discussed the unique challenges of being a […]
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Business in Vancouver reported on a company created by UBC alumni Victor Chan and Genie Lam that may be setting up a manufacturing facility in the Lower Mainland. Chan, one […]
Rima Wilkes, a UBC sociology professor, was interviewed in a Maclean’s article about Canadian birthing hotels which allow women to guarantee their children have Canadian citizenship. She discussed how racism may […]
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