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An Evening with Changemakers, hosted by the UBC Equity & Inclusion Office and alumni UBC, with special guest Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister of Justice & Attorney General of Canada.
Apr 20, 2018
The Conversation published an op-ed from Santa Ono, president and vice chancellor of UBC, about academia’s role in residential schools.
CBC and other media outlets reported that UBC’s board of governors passed a motion endorsing talks with other levels of government to extend the Millennium Line, and to explore contributing to […]
CBC Vancouver interviewed Bernie Garrett, a professor at UBC’s school of nursing, about controversial homeopathic remedies. He explained that it is problematic when people use “infectious agents to treat humans.” […]
Waneek Horn-Miller appeared on CKNW’s Lynda Steele Show to talk about reconciliation in advance of her appearance at UBC Connects.
The UBC Aquatic Centre was one of the winners of the 2018 Lieutenant Governor of B.C. Award in Architecture, the Vancouver Sun reported. The architectural awards are selected by the […]
The Vancouver Sun mentioned UBC in a story about a study that examined the impacts of a program that hands out anti-overdose drug kits in B.C. The study stemmed from […]
The New York Times, CNN, Express U.K. and other media outlets interviewed Anthony Bailey, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at UBC, for a story about a respected Austrian paediatrician’s […]
The Vancouver Sun interviewed Margot Young, a UBC law professor, for a story about the First Nation court challenges associated with the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. She said the Indigenous […]
The Sun U.K. featured a UBC study that found a lack of exercise could be behind increasing rates of mental illness among young people. Mark Beauchamp, a UBC kinesiology professor and […]
The Seattle Times cited UBC research in a story about driving on April 20, known as a “holiday” for cannabis culture. UBC researchers examined 25 years of data and found […]
Science Magazine mentioned UBC in a story about underreporting of landings from deep-sea commercial fisheries. Researchers from the University of Southampton analyzed data on deep-sea catches that was reported to the […]
Star Vancouver featured a UBC study that found B.C.’s commercial trucking industry must shift to electric power more quickly for the province to meet its 2050 climate targets. “We want […]
Star Vancouver quoted Tom Davidoff, an economist at the UBC Sauder School of Business, for an article about B.C.’s new review of real estate regulators. “I don’t see anything wrong […]
The Evening Standard U.K. interviewed Marina Adshade, a professor at UBC’s Vancouver School of Economics, about sex robots. She suggested that sex robots could complement human companionships by easing the demands […]
International Business Times highlighted UBC research on birds that found when some adult offspring are slow and show unwillingness to leave, parent birds prefer to keep them at home. The research […]
Slate mentioned a UBC study in an article about marital maintenance. Researchers at UBC and Harvard Business School studied the connection between outsourcing chores and positive impacts on relationship satisfaction.
UBC’s Hatch incubator for tech ventures was featured in a new BC Business article. The program is based at the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems and supports ventures […]
Castanet reported that Brittni MacKenzie-Dale, a master of arts candidate at UBC’s Okanagan campus, is the winner of this year’s Okanagan Short Story Contest. The annual competition is open to […]
The Agassiz Harrison Observer interviewed UBC mining professor Marcello Veiga for a story on a quarry application. Veiga told the Observer that compared to other operations such as gold mining, […]
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