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The B.C. government has announced that construction of the multi-billion-dollar Site C dam will proceed.
Dec 11, 2017
A New York Times article profiled Rumana Monzur, who was attacked and blinded in 2011 by her husband in Bangladesh after telling him she wanted a divorce. Despite her disability, […]
Newsweek quoted Mark Haden, a professor at UBC’s school of population and public health, in a story about marijuana being sold in Canadian liquor stores. Haden said the discussion about […]
Bloomberg highlighted Veemo, a pilot program at UBC. The program is a sharing network of three-wheeled, electrically assisted velomobiles.
U.S. News and World Report cited an op-ed co-written by John Gill, a UBC medicine professor, in a story about kidney donors. Gill suggested the need for policy changes relating […]
Xinhua quoted John Ries, a UBC Sauder School of Business professor and international trade expert, after the US International Trade Commission voted to label Canadian softwood imports as harmful to […]
Business Insider mentioned a UBC study of drug addicts in a story about a Pennsylvania convenience store that is testing out blue bathroom lighting to see if it will detract […]
International Business Times featured a UBC study that found the amount of close and comforting contact infants receive from their caregivers impacts children at the molecular level. “In children, we […]
CBC featured a UBC study that examined how grocers profit from prices ending in nine and eight. Christina Cheung, a third-year economics student, looked into the revenue gained from penny […]
Reader’s Digest Best Health quoted Lori Brotto, a psychologist and director of the sexual health laboratory at UBC, for an article about sexual satisfaction. She said men and women are […]
Wenran Jiang, a senior fellow with the Institute of Asian Research at UBC, was interviewed for a segment on CBC Radio’s The Current. Jiang discussed Prime Minister Trudeau’s trip to […]
Michelle Koppes, a UBC geography professor, was featured on a CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks segment about the idea of using sea water to flood deserts as a way to […]
Pacific Standard interviewed Michael Brauer, a UBC professor of population health, for an article about the future implications of increased wildfires. He said researchers believe pollution negatively affects immune cells […]
The Vancouver Sun reported on a study from UBC, Simon Fraser University and the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute that found 40 per cent of doctors reduce their workload at least 10 […]
James McCormack, a professor of pharmacy at UBC, was interviewed for a story about dietary sodium in The Province. McCormack says there is no definitive evidence that most people would […]
Radio Canada reported on a UBC study that found almost half of transgender young Canadians are not getting health care when they need it. Among respondents under age 18, sixty-eight […]
The Georgia Straight highlighted several events on UBC campus and a concert by the UBC Opera Ensemble. The article mentioned four exhibits at the Museum of Anthropology and also reported […]
Various media outlets reported on a UBC study that found iPhone owners who use the Health app to track their steps could be doing more than what the device indicates. […]
Globe and Mail quoted Richard Menkis, a UBC professor and expert in religion and modern Jewish history, after a Vancouver woman said her daughter was told she and her friends […]
The Kelowna Capital News reported on Living Things, a festival organized by Neil Cadger, a professor in the faculty of creative and critical studies at UBC’s Okanagan campus. “The Living […]
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