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Canada Finance Minister Bill Morneau visits Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health

Canada Finance Minister Bill Morneau visited the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health and Brain Behaviour Laboratory at UBC Tuesday, to learn how investments made in Budget 2018 will help fund important science and research.

Mar 6, 2018

Justice system report card dubs Ontario ‘most improved,’ B.C., Quebec slide

The Canadian Press reported on a study about the Canadian justice system. “We hope this report card will spur necessary reforms to make our criminal justice system more efficient, fairer, […]

Mar 6, 2018

Heat falls to T-Birds, preps for nationals

Kelowna Capital News reported on the latest results from the UBC Okanagan Heat women’s volleyball team. The Heat lost to the UBC Thunderbirds in the Canada West semi-finals, but qualified […]

Mar 6, 2018

UBCO researchers find new way to produce living bio-tissues

Global highlighted a new a laser bio-printing method being developed at UBC’s Okanagan campus that could be a game changer for people with severe burns, organ failure or cancer. “One […]

Mar 6, 2018

Province proposes major changes to ICBC rate structure

Various media outlets interviewed Werner Antweiler, a professor with the UBC Sauder School of Business, for stories about changes to ICBC’s rate structure and using speed over distance technology to […]

Mar 6, 2018

Self-driving ‘sailbot’ returns home after being lost at sea

Various media outlets reported on a self-navigating sailboat built by UBC students that has been returned to Vancouver following its rescue at sea. A Canadian Press story appeared on CTV, CBC […]

Mar 6, 2018

Startup rolls into vehicle-sharing world with electric tricycles

Metro News interviewed Alex Bigazzi, a civil engineering and transportation-planning professor at UBC, for an article about a Vancouver vehicle-sharing startup. “There is potentially a condition of too many of […]

Mar 6, 2018

Rebuilding Canadian Environmental Law and Policy

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Mar 6, 2018

Cybele Negris on how entrepreneurs overcome a lot of things by not giving up

The Globe and Mail profiled Cybele Negris, a UBC alumna and the co-founder and CEO of Vancouver-based Webnames.ca. Negris who studied commerce at UBC, is also a member of the […]

Mar 6, 2018

Ontario’s justice system is getting better, but challenges persist

The Ottawa Citizen published an op-ed co-written by Benjamin Perrin, a UBC law professor, about the Canadian criminal justice system. “In terms of fairness and access to justice, the Ontario […]

Mar 6, 2018

ICBA calls on Ottawa to reject B.C. attempt to stall pipeline

Journal of Commerce interviewed two UBC professors for an article about the Alberta-to-B.C. Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline. Kathryn Harrison, a UBC political science professor, said neither Alberta, B.C. nor […]

Mar 6, 2018

Protests against MEC are sign of the social media age

Robert Crawford, a UBC political science professor and multinational corporations expert, weighed in for a Business in Vancouver story about protests against MEC for stocking items made by a corporation […]

Mar 6, 2018

Canadian medical schools put under the lens to address harms of patient sexual abuse

The Globe and Mail interviewed Gurdeep Parhar, executive associate dean of clinical partnerships and professionalism in UBC’s faculty of medicine, for a story about the harms of patient sexual abuse. Parhar discussed how […]

Mar 6, 2018

For the study, researchers spent two years conducting interviews with 138 mothers and grandmothers of young children in low-income communities in North Carolina.

Poor mothers face greater scrutiny over their children’s weight

Low-income mothers who use food assistance programs face a high level of surveillance over their children’s health and weight, new UBC research suggests.

Mar 6, 2018

Huntington disease (HD) is an inherited, progressive disorder that causes involuntary movements and psychiatric problems.

Strict eating schedule can lower Huntington disease protein in mice

New research from the University of British Columbia suggests that following a strict eating schedule can help clear away the protein responsible for Huntington disease in mice.

Mar 6, 2018