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Weather-related disasters can make people more religious but it depends on the toll they inflict, suggests new UBC research.
Jun 5, 2018
A reporter from the UBC student paper The Ubyssey was interviewed on CBC Radio’s On the Coast about UBC’s sexual assault policy one year after it was enacted. The segment […]
The Wall Street Journal highlighted work by Paul Beaudry, a UBC economics professor. Beaudry and International Monetary Fund economist Tim Willems found that good economic forecasts could help cause a recession.
NBC interviewed Kirsten Hodge, a UBC volcanologist, about the Ring of Fire zone where many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur. Hodge explained that regions within this “ring” are seismically and […]
CBC highlighted a new report from UBC that sheds light on the emergency response in the Alberni Valley following a tsunami warning. The report found that more than two-thirds of […]
Lawrence Frank, a UBC professor in transportation and public health, spoke to News 1130 about the possibility of autonomous vehicle corridors in Metro Vancouver. “I think the purpose is to […]
Justin Ritchie, an energy economist at UBC’s institute for resources, environment and sustainability, spoke to Wired about a study that suggested a new type of consumerism can help combat climate change. […]
Star Vancouver quoted Thomas Lemieux, a UBC economist, for an article comparing the labour forces of Canada and the U.S. He said that the U.S. may have more significant problems […]
Glamour Magazine named Ann Makosinski, a UBC student and inventor, to its list of 2018 College Women of the Year. Makosinski invented a flashlight that runs on the heat of […]
Ningjian Liang, a UBC PhD candidate in food science, spoke with CTV about her study on how much sugar is lost when cakes are baked and browned. Liang said this […]
The Kelowna Daily Courier highlighted inflammatory bowel disease research by Deanna Gibson, a biology professor at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Gibson’s team is working on dietary research on fats and wheat […]
The Vancouver Sun quoted Paul Kershaw, founder of Generation Squeeze and a UBC professor, who spoke at a town hall about a school-tax surcharge. He suggested it is time to rethink […]
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Bethany Hastie, a professor in the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC, wrote an op-ed for The Province about farm workers being left out of the recent minimum […]
The Georgia Straight reported that NPA members chose Ken Sim, a UBC alumnus, as its Vancouver mayoral candidate. Sim, a graduate of the UBC Sauder School of Business, co-founded Nurse […]
Maclean’s reported that UBC placed 38th in the 2018 Times Higher Education World University Reputation Rankings. In 2017 UBC was ranked 40th on the list. A similar story appeared on […]
Kelowna Daily Courier reported that Mike Jacobs, a UBC alumnus, has been awarded the UBC Applied Science Dean’s Medal of Distinction. He received the honour for his contributions to civil engineering.
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