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Postpartum anxiety affects 1 in 10 moms, here’s what to know

Vogue Magazine cited UBC research about postpartum anxiety. The 2016 study found that postpartum anxiety is more than twice as common as postpartum depression.

Why smelling your partner’s stinky shirt makes you feel better

MSN published a Brides Magazine story about UBC research that connected smelling your partner’s shirt to less stress. The study authors hypothesized that the smell of a lover “may be […]

Facebook data breach

CBC The National interviewed cybersecurity expert Konstantin Beznosov about the Facebook data breach. Beznosov, an electrical and computer engineering professor at UBC, said privacy is not Facebook’s primary goal. Segment […]

Sex workers need workplace regulations to improve safety: Study

Indo-Canadian Voice highlighted a UBC nursing study that examined risk factors sex workers face and the strategies they use to address risks in their work. Vicky Bungay, lead researcher and […]

U.K. doctors use stem cells to restore patients’ eyesight

Global interviewed Kevin Gregory-Evans, a UBC professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, after U.K. doctors restored two patients’ eyesight with stem cells. Gregory-Evans said that eventual treatments for age-related macular […]

Fighting for a Vancouver that puts people first

The Tyee interviewed Paul Kershaw, a policy professor at UBC’s school of population and public health and the Human Early Learning Partnership, about the advocacy group called Generation Squeeze. He […]

In the #MeToo era, ethics training gains urgency

The Globe and Mail interviewed Darren Dahl, director of the Robert H. Lee Graduate School at the UBC Sauder School of Business, in a story about ethics training. Dahl discussed how Sauder moved […]

UBCO to host talk about new telescope

The Kelowna Daily Courier reported on an astrophysics talk at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Mark Halpern, a UBC astrophysicist, will explain the potential of the newly established Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping […]

Human-Computer Interaction Research Issues in VR/AR Lecture

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Mathematician Robert Langlands wins 2018 Abel Prize

Economic Times India reported that Robert P. Langlands, a UBC mathematics alumnus, won the prestigious Abel Prize in mathematics. He was awarded “for his visionary program connecting representation theory to […]

Canada chooses young basketball teams for Commonwealth Games

The Canadian Press reported on the UBC athletes and coach who will represent Canada for the Commonwealth Games. Basketball players Grant Shephard and Conor Morgan and coach Kevin Hanson will […]