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Allan Carroll, a professor of insect ecology and director of the forest sciences program at UBC, spoke to CBC Edmonton about the destruction caused by mountain pine beetles in Jasper. […]
Jul 16, 2018
Slate mentioned work on dog intelligence by Stanley Coren, a UBC psychology professor emeritus. He reasoned that a dog has the approximate intellectual equivalence of a two-and-a-half-year-old child.
The Vancouver Sun published an op-ed by Bethany Hastie, a professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC and Daniel Mare, a JD student at the school, about a […]
CBC reported that Patrick Condon, who teaches at UBC’s school of architecture and landscape architecture, bowed out of the Vancouver mayoral race after suffering a stroke. Similar stories appeared in […]
Donald Stark, an allergist and clinical professor at UBC’s faculty of medicine, spoke to CBC about anaphylaxis. He explained that anaphylaxis presents differently in different people but there are classic […]
CTV interviewed Tom Davidoff, a professor at the UBC Sauder School of Business, about signs of housing market stabilization in Canadian cities. “We’ve sort of been waiting for the other […]
Michelle McGeough, a UBC historian of indigenous art, spoke to Smithsonian Magazine about a campaign highlighting Indigenous Canadian artists. She discussed how the artists are “taking on issues of appropriation.”
International Business Times highlighted a report from researchers from UBC and Lund University that examined methods of reducing damage from climate change. The report derails “a comprehensive suite of lifestyle […]
The Vancouver Sun reported on a team of UBC architecture and science students who designed a compostable toilet made out of mushroom roots. The toilet was designed to help address the problem […]
CBC featured a UBC sociology study that found some white people who do DNA tests choose new racial identities for themselves if they feel it will be believable to others. […]
Star Vancouver quoted Shannon Humphrey, a clinical professor in UBC’s department of dermatology and skin science, for an article about dealing with skin problems. Humphrey explained the benefits of drugs […]
The Province highlighted Ranch in the Slocan, a book by UBC professor emeritus Cole Harris. Harris is also an Officer of the Order of Canada.
CBC Radio’s As it Happens reported on the death of biologist Denis Lynn, who died June 26 while on a research trip to Calvert Island.
CBC Radio’s Day 6 interviewed David Snadden, the founding Rural Doctors UBC Chair in Rural Health, about how transit could better serve Western Canadian communities that Greyhound is leaving. He […]
Eric Meyers, a professor in UBC’s school of library, archival and information studies, and youth and media expert, spoke to Surrey Now-Leader for an article about a video showing a […]
The National Post published an op-ed by Steven Galloway who was dismissed from his position as a UBC professor. The article also appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, and The Province. The Vancouver […]
The National Post published an op-ed by two UBC academics about water shortages in Cape Town. “Water scarcity crises are most often a result of mismanagement rather than of absolute […]
The Ottawa Citizen and National Post published an op-ed about a carbon tax by UBC researchers Werner Antweiler and Sumeet Gulati. “The federal government accepted Ontario’s cap-and-trade system because the predicted carbon reductions […]
The Globe and Mail profiled Connor Bissett, a UBC swimmer who has autism spectrum disorder. Bissett has competed in Canada’s Special Olympics since age 11.
Tania Willard, a visual artist and master’s candidate at UBC’s Okanagan campus, will have her work shown at a group exhibition at the Kelowna Art Gallery, Castanet reported. Woven Together […]
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