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UBC researchers are available to comment on the 2018 Winter Olympics, which will take place in PyeongChang, South Korea, from Feb. 9 to 25.
Jan 24, 2018
UBC students will demonstrate locomotives they have designed as part of their mechanical engineering second-year course.
The Province highlighted the UBC women’s basketball team and their trip to Cuba. The squad returned to Canada and went on a four-game win streak.
Going for the gold is what the Olympics is all about and three UBC entrepreneurs are working to help athletes get closer to the podium.
CBC mentioned Indigenous medical research being done at UBC. Nadine Caron, a professor at UBC’s Northern Medical Program, is co-leading the Silent Genomes project to create a database of background […]
CBC quoted Gordon Lovegrove, an engineering professor at UBC’s Okanagan campus, for an article about the call to widen a B.C. highway. He said studies show that expanding highways and […]
Several UBC researchers spoke to various media outlets about the Alaska earthquake and tsunami warning. UBC professor and earthquake expert Simon Peacock told Global that residents were lucky the earthquake […]
CTV reported that a UBC student who was found not criminally responsible for stabbing a fellow student has been allowed to return to his home country of Saudi Arabia after […]
The Vancouver Sun interviewed Stuart Turvey, a UBC professor and pediatrician at B.C. Children’s Hospital about the rise of childhood asthma. “Kids aren’t being exposed to infections and microbes in […]
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Business in Vancouver profiled Husein Rahemtulla, a UBC alumnus and co-founder of a meal plan company. Rahemtulla studied philosophy at UBC.
The Independent U.K. cited a UBC study in a story about qualities that make for a lasting relationship. The study found that strong people prioritize the goals of their partners […]
The Tyee mentioned a report by UBC’s Program on Water Governance that found the Site C dam project “has more significant negative environmental effects than any other project ever reviewed under […]
CBC Radio’s Ideas published an interview with Wade Davis, a UBC anthropology professor. Davis explained why we need to pay more attention to the values, voices, and concerns of Indigenous peoples.
Huffington Post quoted Chris Carlsten, a UBC respiratory specialist and the Canada Research Chair in occupational and environmental lung disease, about pollution. He said it’s conceivable for health effects to arise in […]
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