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Vancouver city council has approved a new bylaw covering short-term rentals. UBC experts are available to comment.
Nov 14, 2017
Larry Beasley, a professor at UBC’s school of community and regional planning, suggests that every new building built in Vancouver should dedicate the 13th floor to community purposes as a […]
Hindustan Times reported on UBC psychology research that found spending time outdoors leads to happiness. Holli-Anne Passmore, a PhD candidate at UBC’s Okanagan campus, said if people take time to […]
Treating and preventing diabetes will only work if responsibility shifts to communities and governments and away from its sufferers, according to four UBC academics in an op-ed published today in […]
The South China Morning Post mentioned two UBC professors who will speak at Hong Kong Shue Yan University during an interdisciplinary conflict resolution event. Michelle LeBaron, a professor at the […]
CNBC interviewed Elizabeth Dunn, a UBC psychology professor, about her research on happiness. “If you have a lot of money and a lot of nice stuff, but you’re spending your […]
Time Out Chicago mentioned UBC’s Brock Commons in a story about wooden skyscrapers. The UBC student residence building is currently the tallest wooden building in the world. A similar story […]
CBC quoted Michael Krausz, a UBC professor of psychiatry specializing in addiction, about fentanyl in street drugs. When working with a drug as lethal as fentanyl, drug dealers “are not […]
CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks featured an interview with Kalina Christoff, a UBC professor of psychology. She said most creative people switch between spontaneously brainstorming and appraising the results.
CBC reported UBC RCMP have investigated two instances of racist graffiti incidents on campus in the past week. UBC RCMP Constable Kevin Ray said the investigation has been closed. The […]
Global cited research by David Green, a UBC economist, in a story about wage growth in various jobs Canada. Research by Green and his co-authors found that the resource boom […]
William Cheung, a professor in the Changing Ocean Research Unit at UBC, spoke to the Vancouver Sun for a story about an area of water with record high temperatures. Cheung […]
Various media outlets reported that Pro-Nazi posters were found on UBC’s Vancouver campus on Remembrance Day. Philip Steenkamp, UBC’s vice-president of external relations, said in a statement the “disturbing” posters […]
Howard Feldman, a professor in UBC’s department of neurology, spoke to the Vancouver Sun about a European study that found a drink said to boost memory has been shown to […]
Metro News interviewed Paul Kershaw, a professor at UBC’s school of population and public health, about the effects of a new federal policy on lengthening parental leave. Studies show that […]
The Canadian Press interviewed Karen Bakker, the director of UBC’s Program on Water Governance and environmental studies expert, about the future of the Site C dam project. She said the […]
Thomas Davidoff, a UBC economist, was interviewed for a story in The Province about the SPCA’s plans to develop student housing in an East Vancouver building owned by the organization. […]
The Globe and Mail mentioned UBC’s draft of a statement on freedom of expression in an editorial about free speech at universities. “Universities should remind themselves, and their students, that the […]
Rehan Sadiq, associate dean of the school of engineering at UBC’s Okanagan campus, will speak at a forum on water, Castanet reported. Sadiq will speak about the “one water” approach […]
Michael Byers, the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at UBC and a defence expert, was quoted in a story on iPolitics about Canadians arms sales abroad. […]
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