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Over 2,500 people were on hand at the UBC Okanagan campus on Wednesday night for a Town Hall event hosted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Sep 7, 2017
A Canadian effort to build one of the most innovative radio telescopes in the world will open the universe to a new dimension of scientific study.
The universe is expanding, and the rate of expansion is accelerating. The discovery of dark energy was made in the 1990’s and was surprising to astronomers, who expected to find that the cosmic expansion would slow down as gravity pulls the matter in the universe back in on itself, much as a ball thrown in the air would eventually reverse course and fall to the ground.
Stephen King’s IT hits theatres tomorrow and is expected to have a record-breaking opening.
Nancy Perry, a UBC professor in the faculty of education and a recipient of the Dorothy Lam chair in special education, was quoted in a CBC story about a court […]
Wendy Hall, a UBC nursing professor, shared tips for a CBC story about staying cool as you sleep. She says it’s particularly important for parents of young infants to make […]
Xinhua interviewed John Ries, a strategy and business economics professor at the UBC Sauder School of Business, about NAFTA. He said “Trump doesn’t have the political ability to do anything […]
UBC astronomer Jaymie Matthews was quoted in an International Business Times story about a meteor shower that was captured on camera. He said this was a fireball, or an extremely bright meteor.
CBC Radio’s On the Coast featured an interview with Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, a professor in UBC’s faculty of education, about social and emotional learning. She explained how B.C. teachers are including […]
MSN cited UBC research into the science of music for an article about the benefits of listening to tunes while working out. Matthew Stork, a UBC PhD candidate, allowed his […]
The Vancouver Sun interviewed Andrew Parr, UBC’s managing director of housing, and Darran Fernandez, UBC’s director of student support and advising, in a story about housing challenges for students in […]
News 1130 reported on a strike vote being held among some heating and cooling system employees at UBC. Leslie Dickson said “the university has requested further mediation to resolve outstanding […]
Yahoo cited UBC research in a story about women who have children later in life. Researchers examined data on more than 800,000 births in Washington State between 2003 and 2013 […]
A News 1130 story on Labour Day events in the Lower Mainland mentioned an interactive structure created by UBC students. The Richmond World Festival featured a sushi display called Macro […]
Vice interviewed a UBC psychology PhD candidate about people who troll online. Erin Buckels, the lead author of a 2014 study titled “Trolls Just Want to Have Fun,” discussed the […]
The Province highlighted J.J. DesLauriers, a receiver for the UBC Thunderbirds football team. DesLauriers has numerous family members who suited up for the TBirds in the past. The story also […]
Pique Magazine interviewed Hartley Banack, a UBC outdoor environmental education program lecturer, about redefining outdoor education. He said “what we’re trying to do is increase the amount of time spent outdoors […]
Mariana Brussoni, a UBC professor, spoke to a number of media outlets after a single father was barred by the province from sending his children to school on a city […]
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The Times Colonist mentioned Michael Jackson, a professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC, in a story about a man who served 38 years in prison […]
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