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Indigenous and coastal communities in Canada are increasingly finding that the ocean and marine resources are off limits, new research suggests.
Nov 30, 2017
The Toronto Star quoted Kevin Milligan, a UBC economist, about the proposed daycare plan in Ontario. Milligan reviewed the final costing and said “the quality of their costing analysis attains the […]
Foraging is a centuries-old practice, but many of the mushrooms in British Columbia are just now being identified through DNA sequencing and the enthusiasm of amateur collectors.
Order of Canada recipient Verna Kirkness, the first director of UBC’s First Nations House of Learning, was interviewed on CBC Radio’s Early Edition to discuss her participation in the OC50 […]
Penny Gurstein, the director of UBC’s school of community and regional planning, was interviewed for a News 1130 story about Seattle’s plans to cut the city’s number of homeless people […]
Live Science highlighted UBC’s Keeling Lab in an article about new microorganisms found in termites. Microbiology researchers affiliated with the UBC lab discovered the three new species of microbes and […]
Work by Karen Bakker, program director at UBC’s Program on Water Governance, was featured in an article on The Tyee. Bakker’s research, based on data from BC Hydro and industry […]
Shelly Ben-David, a social work professor at UBC’s Okanagan campus, was named to Kelowna’s Top 40 Under 40 list, Kelowna Daily Courier reported. John Graham, the director of social work […]
The Times U.K. reported on work by Delroy Paulhus, a UBC psychology professor, in a story about Charles Manson. Paulhus has found that humans are born with narcissism and psychopathy, […]
CBC Manitoba featured a UBC study that found a toxin known to contribute to dementia in people after long-term dietary exposure is being produced by algae in Lake Winnipeg. Susan […]
The Daily Hive reported on an event at UBC’s Chan Centre featuring Order of Canada recipients David Suzuki, Shelagh Rogers, Trevor Linden, Wade Davis, Sophie Pierre and Robert Silverman. They […]
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Maclean’s published an op-ed from The Conversation by John Paul Catungal, an instructor in critical race and ethnic studies at UBC’s Social Justice Institute, about Prime Minister Trudeau’s formal apology […]
Construction Dive mentioned UBC’s Brock Commons in a story of five exciting projects that opened in 2017. The 18-story residence hall is currently the world’s tallest wood building.
UBC was ranked as the sixth greenest campus in Canada, Daily Hive reported. According to a report released by Corporate Knights, UBC took the sixth spot while the University of […]
The Globe and Mail featured work by UBC researchers on how astronauts make the International Space Station into a home. Phyllis Johnson, a UBC sociology professor, and Peter Suedfeld, a UBC […]
The Canadian Press reported on the Supreme Court justices, including UBC alumnus, Justice Russell Brown. Brown, who was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2015, earned his BA at UBC. The […]
The Canadian Press interviewed Julien Picault, a senior economics instructor at UBC, in a story about the latest census results. There has been a 31 per cent spike in the […]
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