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British Columbia’s New Democrat government is expected to unveil its first budget Monday following last week’s throne speech.
Sep 11, 2017
Melissa Baker, UBC’s manager of nutrition and well-being, spoke to CBC for a story on student nutrition. She discussed ways for students to get nutritious meals on a budget. The […]
Various media outlets reported on $42 million in federal funding that will support fundamental research at UBC, distributed through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) 2017 Discovery […]
Wendy Carr, the associate dean of UBC’s teacher education program, was interviewed on CBC Radio’s B.C. Almanac (also on CBC Vancouver and Yahoo) about why people are going into teacher-training, and […]
Mariana Brussoni, a professor in UBC’s school of population and public health, was interviewed on CBC Radio’s B.C. Almanac. She discussed managing risk when it comes to children’s safety. She was […]
Daily Mail reported on the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), a giant radio telescope that will be used to study dark energy. Principal investigator Mark Halpern, a UBC astronomy […]
Three UBC professors spoke to local media about B.C. politics following the throne speech. Maxwell Cameron, a UBC political scientist, told CBC “if there is one thing the NDP must […]
Various media outlets reported that the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 882 members at UBC voted in favour of striking. Union Local 882 business manager Adrian David said members have […]
Bloomberg featured Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s town hall meeting at UBC’s Okanagan campus during the Federal Liberal Party caucus retreat. Trudeau’s Liberal Party lawmakers convened to kick off the […]
Patrick Condon, a professor at UBC’s school of architecture and landscape architecture, was interviewed on CBC Radio’s B.C. Almanac about the B.C. government’s decision to put the George Massey Tunnel […]
A CTV Vancouver story about HIV disclosure rules cited an op-ed co-written by Julio Montaner, a UBC-Killam professor of medicine and the UBC-St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation chair in AIDS Research. […]
An NPR article about convergent evolution mentioned biology research at UBC. Evolutionary biologists at UBC seeded artificial ponds with sticklebacks to examine how they evolve over generations.
Two UBC professors were quoted in a South China Morning Post story about the future of the Cantonese language in Canada. Zoe Lam, a linguistics researcher and UBC PhD candidate, […]
Kees Lokman, a professor in UBC’s school of architecture and landscape architecture, was interviewed on CKNW’s Jill Bennett Show about disaster-proofing cities to prepare for natural disasters. Lokman advocated for […]
Lily Yumagulova, a PhD candidate in UBC’s school of community and regional planning, was quoted in a News 1130 story about mass evacuation plans. She discussed how a natural disaster […]
Psychology Today cited research on psychopathy by UBC psychology professor emeritus Robert Hare. Hare developed a checklist used to diagnose psychopaths.
Bonny Norton, a professor in UBC department of language and literacy education, was interviewed on Nigeria’s Africa Today program about worldwide literacy. She discussed research that found more than one-third of Africa children […]
Kevin Milligan, an economist at UBC’s Vancouver School of Economics, spoke to the Canadian Press about the B.C. budget update. Milligan said he expects the update to include provisions for […]
News 1130 reported on Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia at UBC. The exhibition is on until Oct. 9 at the Museum of Anthropology.
The Canadian Press interviewed Ayesha S. Chaudhry, a UBC professor in Islamic and gender studies, about a project to increase diversity in Vancouver’s news media. She said “it’s really important […]
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