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UBC Reports | November 10
Nov 10, 2017
Jump Start at UBC’s Vancouver campus is a multi-day orientation and transition program for first-year students.
After surrendering the first point of the match on Thursday night, the UBC Thunderbirds men’s volleyball team led the rest of the way, sweeping the Thompson Rivers WolfPack 3-0.
The flu shot: Who should get it and why Manish Sadarangani, a UBC medicine professor, wrote an op-ed for The Conversation about the flu shot. Read more.
Xinhua reported on a collaborative seahorse project involving UBC and the London Zoo’s international conservation charity ZSL. Researchers discovered seahorses living in London’s River Thames.
Inc featured research by Elizabeth Croft, director of UBC’s Collaborative Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab. Croft and her team study the ways that robots’ gestures affect the way people interact with them.
CBC reported on a project based at UBC that aims to enhance mental health treatment by using smartphone apps, text messaging and electronic medical records. The project will be run […]
Global featured UBC research in a story about students with dyslexia. Linda Siegel, a UBC education professor emeritus, followed 1,000 North Vancouver students from kindergarten to Grade 7 and found 20 […]
Richard Johnston, a UBC political science professor, was quoted in a Globe and Mail story about how federal Conservative leader Andrew Scheer might defeat Justin Trudeau in an election with […]
Manish Sadarangani, a UBC medicine professor, wrote an op-ed for The Conversation about the flu shot. “The more people who are vaccinated, the lower the circulation of influenza virus in […]
Kerry Jang, a UBC psychiatry professor and city councillor, spoke to the Globe and Mail for a story about Vancouver’s first wave of consultations over housing homeless people in temporary modular […]
Victoria Lemieux, a professor in UBC’s, school of library, archival and information studies, wrote an op-ed for The Conversation about blockchain technology, which chains together records of transactions. “In a […]
The Globe and Mail reported that UBC released a draft freedom of expression statement and requested feedback from the university community. UBC president Santa Ono said in a statement the […]
Oliver Neumann, a professor at UBC’s school of architecture and landscape architecture, wrote an op-ed for Canadian Architect about the intersection of digital technology and architecture. “Digital technology demands new […]
The Times Colonist published an op-ed about the legal rights of killer whales by David R. Boyd, a professor at UBC’s Institute for Resources Environment and Sustainability. He wrote that […]
Castanet reported on a discussion about the Canadian wine industry hosted by Paul Davies, a psychology professor at UBC’s Okanagan campus. The event focused on how the industry can unite […]
The Canadian Press interviewed Henry Yu, a UBC history professor, for a story about Chinese-Canadians in Canada’s armed forces. Yu said the federal government did not want Chinese-Canadians fighting in […]
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The Kelowna Capital News reported on the Remembrance Day service at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Lt.-Col. Mike McGinty shared his experience piloting a helicopter in Afghanistan.
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